Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal\u00ed (1904\u20131989)was one of the twentieth century\u2019s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general.<\/p>\n
Dal\u00ed frequently described his paintings as \u201chand-painted dream photographs.\u201d Their tantalizing tension and interest resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous arrangements. As Dal\u00ed himself explained, he painted with \u201cthe most imperialist fury of precision,\u201d but only \u201cto systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dal\u00ed also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall.<\/p>\n
This book explores both the painting and the personality of Dal\u00ed, introducing his technical skill as well as his provocative compositions and challenging themes of death, decay, and eroticism.<\/p>\n
Gilles N\u00e9ret (1933\u20132005) was an art historian, journalist, writer and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU Museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L’\u0152il and Connaissance des Arts and received the \u00c9lie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dal\u00ed: The Paintings, Matisse,<\/em> and Erotica Universalis.<\/em><\/p>\n Each book in TASCHEN\u2019s Basic Art series features: Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal\u00ed (1904\u20131989)was one of the twentieth century\u2019s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4522],"product_tag":[979,1146,514,154,524],"class_list":{"0":"post-8087","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art-en","7":"product_tag-contemporary-art-en","8":"product_tag-great-masters-en","9":"product_tag-men-en","10":"product_tag-monographs","11":"product_tag-painting-en","12":"pa_author_att-gilles-neret-en","13":"pa_cover-hardcover","14":"pa_format-26-x-21-cm-en","15":"pa_isbn-9783836560009-en","16":"pa_language-eng","17":"pa_pages-96-en","18":"pa_published-2015-05-25-en","19":"pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","21":"first","22":"instock","23":"sold-individually","24":"shipping-taxable","25":"purchasable","26":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n
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