Proliferating ants, lace-clad rhinoceroses, apocalyptic horse, rotten donkey, spidery elephant, pet ocelot, and anteater on a leash\u2026 Salvador Dal\u00ed imagined a fantastical bestiary revisiting ancient mythology, medieval representations, and those of artists such as Breughel and Bosch.<\/p>\n
Transgressing scientific classifications of the animal world, this bestiary is unique because it is linked to Dal\u00ed\u2019s theory of the irrational and the psyche of human beings, primarily that of the artist himself. Fantasies, dreams, phobias, metamorphoses, hallucinations, and chain symbolisations become symptoms for analysts and fuel an imaginary world of chimeras, supernatural and divine creatures.<\/p>\n
This accompanying exhibition catalogue offers an immersion in the Dal\u00ed universe and its extraordinary bestiary through more than 90 works rarely shown to the public, whose diversity (paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, photographs, films, etc.) is a reflection of Dal\u00ed\u2019s polymorphous talent.<\/p>\n
Text in French with an English section at the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Proliferating ants, lace-clad rhinoceroses, apocalyptic horse, rotten donkey, spidery elephant, pet ocelot, and anteater on a leash\u2026 Salvador Dal\u00ed imagined a fantastical bestiary revisiting ancient mythology, medieval representations, and those of artists such as Breughel and Bosch. Transgressing scientific classifications of the animal world, this bestiary is unique because it is linked to Dal\u00ed\u2019s theory…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":109280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4522,13533],"product_tag":[524],"class_list":["post-109279","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-en","product_cat-books","product_tag-painting-en","pa_author_att-jean-michel-bouhours","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-24-x-17-cm-en","pa_isbn-21105","pa_language-angielski-i-francuski-en","pa_pages-176-en","pa_published-2026-01-14","pa_publisher-silvana-en","first","instock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n