The most complete study of Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s painted works yet. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles N\u00e9ret located previously inaccessible works that epitomize Dal\u00ed\u2019s depictions of the subconscious and its strange workings. Complete with updated captions, this opulent edition contextualizes Dal\u00ed\u2019s paintings with his own writings, drawings, and archival material.<\/p>\n
At the age of six, Salvador Dal\u00ed (1904\u20131989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. \u201cSince then,\u201d he later said, \u201cmy ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dal\u00ed, I have no greater wish.\u201d Throughout his life, Dal\u00ed was out to become Dal\u00ed: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century.<\/p>\n
This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dal\u00ed\u2019s painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles N\u00e9ret located painted works by the master that had been inaccessible for years\u2014so many, in fact, that almost half the featured illustrations appear in public for the first time in this book.<\/p>\n
More than a catalogue raisonn\u00e9, this book contextualizes Dal\u00ed\u2019s oeuvre and its meanings by examining contemporary documents, from writings and drawings to material from other facets of his work, including ballet, cinema, fashion, advertising, and objets d\u2019art. Without these crutches to support analysis, the paintings would simply be a series of many images.<\/p>\n
The study is divided into two parts: the first examines Dal\u00ed\u2019s beginnings as an unknown artist. We witness how the young Dal\u00ed deployed all the isms\u2014Impressionism, Pointillism, Cubism, Fauvism, Purism and Futurism\u2014with playful mastery, and how he would borrow from prevailing trends before ridiculing and abandoning them. The second part unveils the conclusions of Dal\u00ed\u2019s lifelong inquiries, as well as the great legacy he left in works such as Tuna Fishing (1966\/67) or Hallucinogenic Toreador (1970). It includes previously unpublished homages to Vel\u00e1zquez or Michelangelo, painted to the same end as the variations on past masters done by his contemporary, Picasso.<\/p>\n
We discover how, motivated by the desire to tease out the secrets of great works and become a Vel\u00e1zquez of the mid-20th century, Dal\u00ed became Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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