Salvador Dali painting returns to Glasgow

Salvador Dali painting returns to Glasgow after spending 6 months on display in the USA.
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Salvador Dali St. Petersburg Fl. Honda Grand Prix Racing Helmet

Driver Oriol Sevia, from Catalonia, Spain, will honor famed Spanish artist Salvador Dali with his helmet in today's main race.

Newman/Haas Racing driver Oriol Servia is from the same region of Spain as artist Salvador Dali, and he's a huge Dali fan. He visited the new museum inside the race course Thursday and will wear one of his Dali helmets in the race.

"I feel I have a special connection with the (grand prix)," Servia said.

Servia's helmets are designed by Asaign and are among most unusual in racing. Many feature designs by Dali, such a melting clock and marching ants.

Elizabeth Taylor passed away, she worked with Salvador Dali in 1950

Elizabeth Taylor passed away. She worked with Dali in 1950. Salvador Dali designed a dream sequence for the film "Father of the Bride" Elizabeth Taylor delivers one of the all time best screams on film. (See clip)

The film also included the legendary Spencer Tracy as the Father of the Bride played by Elizabeth Taylor.

While the Alfred Hitchcock Film "Spellbound" received more attention, the dream sequence in "Father of the Bride" is every bit as interesting surreal and entertaining to watch.

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Salvador Dali Sculpture Soumaya Museum Mexico City

Spanish artist Salvador Dali's sculpture, 'The Triumphant Angel' resides on the top floor of the Soumaya Museum's new home in Mexico City,

 

Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali Gala Surrealism Spain

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. La persistencia de la memoria. The painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1934. It is very widely recognized, and is frequently referenced in popular culture.

The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of "softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the time. As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order"[1]. This interpretation suggests that Dalí was incorporating an understanding of the world introduced by Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. When asked by Ilya Prigogine whether this was in fact the case, Dali replied that the soft watches were not inspired by the theory of relativity, but by the surrealist perception of a camembert cheese melting in the sun.[2]

Although fundamentally part of Dalí's Freudian phase, the imagery precedes his transition to his scientific phase by fourteen years, which occurred after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

It is possible to recognize a human figure in the middle of the composition, in the strange "monster" that Dalí used in several period pieces to represent himself – the abstract form becoming something of a self portrait, reappearing frequently in his work. The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants. Dalí often used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death, as well as a symbol of female genitalia.

The figure in the middle of the picture is symbolized as a "fading" creature, as which, when one often dreams, he or she cannot pin-point the exact form and composition of a creature. One can also see that the creature has one closed eye with several eyelashes; this also suggests that the creature is in a dream state. The iconography of this famous painting is that of a dream that Dalí had experienced. The clocks symbolize the passing of time that one experiences in a dream state.

While Salvador Dali did create quite a few limited edition graphics, etchings, engravings, lithographs etc., that were hand signed in pencil for the most part (some signed in ink) he did not agree to create a limited edition version of the Persistence of Memory until 1974. The hand signed print is an interpretation of Dali's earlier work. The original painting is a small 9" x 12", but the limited edition graphic is a large 29 1/2 x 30 1/2 inch work on heavy archival paper.

Notice the added clock in the interpretation.

Also (not shown here) there is a small image in the lower border

that shows the original paitning, and there are also engraved characters in the

lower border as well. The pencil signature and pencil edition numbers are just below

the image.

The art market is changing at a fast past these days, as Christies and Sothby's are reporting record auction sales. Limited edition works that sold for affordable prices only 15 or 20 years ago, are selling at record high prices today.

It is still possible to obtain one of these rare works by Dali, but as it has happened with all Masters in the past, the availability of any original or signed limited edition works changes at a much faster pace as time marches on.

If you have any questions about this work, fee free to call me at: 888-888-DALI ask for Dan.

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Salvador Dali working in his studio in the 1960's creating lithographs

Notice the bullfight print in the background. This is Dali in 1965 hand working on the Bullfight series.