The interest of the young Dal painting begins very early, it is further underpinned by the attendance of a family of Catalan artists, the Pitchot, which resulted in Ramon Pichot (1872-1925), Impressionist painter .

In 1917, he studied drawing of Professor Juan Nuez at the Escuela Municipal de Grabado. In early May 1918, he exhibited at the Municipal Theater of Figueres several paintings that are noticed by two famous critics: Carlos Costa and Puig Pujades .

In 1921, he joined the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. That period student an opportunity to bond with Federico Garca Lorca and Luis Bunuel. Relationships with his teachers and his classmates (he despises as he later wrote) are heated. After several escapades (including an arrest in 1923 for anarchism) it is finally expelled from school in 1926 after a final challenge (he refuses to answer the question of a teacher, saying he had nothing to teach him ).

Her younger sister Anna-Maria he often serves as a model at the time, often putting back in front of a window .

Salvador Dal and Man Ray in Paris in 1934 , photo by Carl Van Vechten , photographer U.S.

A first trip to Paris in 1926 is an opportunity to meet Picasso that will never cease to admire. That same year, Miro comes to visit him in Cadaques .

In 1929, Dal returned to Paris to co-directed Un Chien Andalou with his friend Luis Bunuel , and then fell out with him after the Golden Age. But it was during the crucial meeting with the Surrealist group: Tristan Tzara , Louis Aragon , Andr Breton , Paul Eluard ... That summer, a group of Surrealists visited him in Cadaques , Paul Eluard is accompanied by his wife Helen ( Gala ) . It is a thunderbolt, Dal and Gala together ever since. In December, because of his affair with a married woman and the legend of an engraving misinterpreted by her family, Salvador Dal blurs deeply with her father and her sister Anna-Maria .

In 1930, unable to move because of Cadaques same paternal hostility, Dal and Gala bought a tiny fisherman's cottage a few miles from Cadaqus, in the sea in the small cove of Port Lligat . Over the years and his fortune, he will continue to increase his property, where the landscape on the small creek to become a permanent pictorial reference in the work of the painter.

The first months were difficult, however, his paintings are selling well and they saw little. But the last few lean years, and the painter became famous. In Paris, he attended the dinner as worldly as Surrealist circles

Dal and Gala land for the first time in New York in 1934 (It's Picasso who paid him his trip ). Americans are captivated by the eccentric character and a bold surrealism while they hardly knew. In December 1934 in Paris , after a memorable meeting, Dal is excluded from the surrealist movement by Andre Breton , who criticized him against his ideas Revolutionaries.

In 1936, Dal was in Catalonia when he has to flee his country in civil war. He cries Garcia Lorca who has no chance, killed at Granada August 18, 1936.

With his friend Stefan Zweig in 1938, Dal met in London Sigmund Freud long he admires and whose work inspired his own pictorial research on dreams and the unconscious .

In 1939, Dal left Paris for New York where he remained during the war years in Europe. It fits perfectly with the high society of New York, painted many portraits of wealthy Americans, actively participates in the theatrical life with large murals, made his first jewelry, and turned to film, especially the Marx Brothers at Walt Disney , in Alfred Hitchcock .

In 1948, Dal finally returns to his home in Port Lligat , who would become his principal residence until Gala's death in 1982. He now divides his time between his creative periods in Port Lligat media and life in Paris, Rome or New York. During the years 1950 and 1960, he depicts the character they know, eccentric troublemaker and inescapable Parisian life and media.

In 1969, Dal buy and renovate the castle Pbol in the Catalan countryside. Less exposed to the public that Port Lligat, it will be the castle of refuge Gala.

Salvador Dali in 1972

The Dal Theatre-Museum in Figueres opened September 28, 1974.

In 1982, the King of Spain appointed him Marquis of Dal Pbol.

On June 10, 1982 Gala died in the house Portlligat. Deeply affected by the death of his muse, Dal will not return to Port Lligat. He first lived in Pbol, where he painted his last painting, The Dovetail, but there is a victim of the fire in his bedroom in 1984 in which he was badly burned. He ended his days in the apartment at Torre Galatea, adjacent to the Theatre-Museum in Figueres , and died in hospital in Figueras January 23, 1989 . Admirer of Leonardo da Vinci (in which he finds the roots of his method paranoacritique ), he carried a long Raphael at the pinnacle, proclaiming he was the only contemporary able to understand . Towards the end of his life, the characters of Michelangelo took a considerable part in his paintings. He also had his whole life for Velasquez boundless admiration . Vermeer was another lighthouse, which he long sought to imitate art, and sometimes he succeeded .

It undergoes very young impressionist influence by proximity to family whose Pichot Ramon Pichot (1872-1925), Impressionist painter was one of the first Impressionist Catalan . He admired Renoir but hated Cezanne ("the worst French painter" ).

It never ceased to praise Meissonier ("a real nightingale brush" ), which he mocked the lack of technical genius but whose incredibly meticulous impressed. Picasso was a sort of big brother who made him welcome when he arrived in Paris. Dal sought all his life to confront him, only contemporary artist whose genius he recognized at least equal to its own .

The first paintings

Early paintings show a real talent preserved early at the age of 6 years . His early portraits of his family were in Cadaques already amazing pictorial force, including Impressionism. Playing on the subject, he mixed a long gravel to painting (Old twilight, 1918). During his time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, he regretted the lack of formal training . Then begins an era of diverse influences, the young like a sponge soaking Dali various techniques: pointillism (Nude in a Landscape, 1922), cubism (Cubist Self-Portrait, 1923, Barcelona Mannequin, 1927), Picasso (Venus and Marine, 1925) ...

Surrealism

The decisive encounter with surrealism releases its extraordinary creative power. It is influenced by Rene Magritte , but quickly acquired a first clean (Honey is sweeter than blood, 1926; Cenicitas, 1928). His work will now be filled with personal references, often encrypted, it reuses at will as the haunting figure of the Great Masturbator he uses many times in 1929 (Portrait of Paul Eluard, 1929 The Great Masturbator, 1929)

The method paranoacritique

The theme of the double image or multiple moves rapidly from the 1930s, there remain attached for most of his career. The eye sees great to Dali in a benign image, another image he uses as a support for the troubled reality and meaning of the canvas, The Invisible Man (1929) is the first example. Until the end of his career, he will hold to play with the eye of the beholder (Fifty images abstract views of 2 yards change into three masked Lenin Chinese views and 6 yards to appear at the top of Royal Tiger , The Bullfighter hallucinogen , Gala looking the Mediterranean Sea which at twenty meters becomes a portrait of Abraham Lincoln - Homage to Rothko)

The Post-War

Reduces the number of works but still passes his winters Dal in Port Lligat often paint a great work per year and other less ambitious canvases. This is the time of the Madonna of Port Lligat (1950), Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951), Corpus Hypercubus (1954), La Tuna Fishing (1967) and The Bullfighter hallucinogen (1970).

The three-dimensionality

Discovery Station at Perpignan, Dal is passionate about the end of his career to paint images double the stereoscopic effect. These works are difficult to reproduce, they are very numerous in the Dal Museum (Athens burns!).

Technical

Dali claimed a technique very classic, sticking to the oil painting for almost all of his painting. The work is almost always very careful with preparatory drawings very neat and meticulous execution, often under the microscope . Some tiny pieces reflect a true talent as a miniaturist (First Portrait of Gala, Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on the shoulder)

Chronological list of major paintings

Salvador Dal painted 1640 paintings mainly oils on canvas. The titles and dates are from the work of Gilles and Robert Descharnes Neret .

• 1918:
  • Old twilight
• 1919:
  • Self-portrait in the studio
• 1920:
  • Portrait of cellist Ricardo Pichot
• 1921:
  • Selfportrait neck Raphaelesque
• 1922:
  • Nude in a landscape
• 1923:
  • The sick child - self-portrait
  • Cubist Self Portrait
• 1924:
  • Portrait of my sister and character opposite Picasso
  • Portrait of Luis Bunuel
• 1925:
  • Character in a window (Anna Maria)
  • Portrait of my father
  • Venus and a sailor
• 1926:
  • Girl back (Anna Maria)
  • Reclining Woman
  • Breadbasket
• 1927:
  • The Barcelona Model
  • Honey is sweeter than blood
  • Breadbasket
• 1928:
  • Cenicitas
  • The rotten ass
• 1929:
  • Portrait of Paul Eluard
  • Lugubrious Game
  • The Great Masturbator
  • The Enigma of Desire: my mother, my mother, my mother
  • The Invisible Man
• 1930
  • Sleeper, horse, lion invisible, published in the first issue of " Surrealism in the service of revolution, "July, Muse National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Metz
• 1931
  • Old Age of William Tell
  • First Portrait of Gala
  • Fireworks ", oil on tin embossed, 40 x 65.5 cm, private collection
  • Partial Hallucination - Six apparitions of Lenin on a Piano
  • Persistence of Memory (The Soft Watches)
  • 1932:
  • Meditations on the harp
  • Birth of Liquid pleasures
  • Fried eggs, not fried
• 1933
  • The Phenomenon of Ecstasy, photo-collage, first published in the journal Minotaur ^No. 3-4, Gala-Salvador Dal Foundation
  • The ghost wagon
  • Anthropomorphic Bread
  • Gala and the Angelus of Millet Preceding the Arrival of conical anamorphosis
  • Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on the shoulder
  • The Enigma of William Tell
  • The Angelus of Millet's Architectonic
• 1934
  • The specter of sex appeal
  • Atavistic Vestiges After the Rain
• 1935
  • The rider's death
  • The Face of Mae West that can be used as apartment
• 1936:
  • The great paranoid
  • Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War
  • Anthropomorphic Cabinet
• 1937
  • Giraffes on fire
  • Swans reflected in elephants
  • Metamorphosis of Narcissus
  • Sleep
• 1938
  • Spain
  • The Endless Enigma, 114.3 x 146.5 cm, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
• 1939
  • The Enigma of Hitler
  • Shirley Temple , the youngest superstar of the cinema of his time, mixed media on panel, 75 x 100 cm
• 1940
  • Family centaurs marsupials
  • Slave Market with the appearance of the bust invisible Voltaire
  • Old age, adolescence, childhood
• 1941
  • Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon
• 1943
  • Geopolitical child watches the birth of the new man
  • Poetry of America - The Cosmic Athletes
• 1944
  • Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
• 1945
  • Galarina
  • Basket of Bread - Rather than death defilement
  • Portrait of Isabel Styler-Tas (Melancholy) ", oil on canvas, 65.5 x 86 cm Gala-Salvador Dal
• 1946
  • Giant Flying Demi-cup with annex inexplicable five meters in length
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony
• 1947
  • Portrait of Picasso
• 1948
  • Elephants
• 1949
  • Leda Atomica
  • The Madonna of Port Lligat version 1
• 1950
  • The Madonna of Port Lligat version 2
• 1951
  • Raphaelesque head exploded
  • Christ of Saint John of the Cross at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
• 1952
  • Assumpta corpuscularia lapislazulina
  • Galatea of the Spheres
• 1954
  • Corpus Hypercubus
  • Dal bare contemplation before five regular bodies metamorphosed into particles, which appears suddenly in the face by Leda chromosomatise Gala
  • Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity horns
• 1955
  • Paranoiac-critical study of Vermeer's Lacemaker
  • The Last Supper
• 1956
  • Still life alive
• 1958
  • Rose Meditative
• 1959
  • The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
• 1962
  • Self-portrait with the appearance of macrophotographic Gala Spanish nun
  • The Battle of Tetuan
• 1963
  • Fifty images abstract views of 2 yards change into three masked Lenin Chinese views and 6 yards to appear at the top of Royal Tiger
  • Portrait of My Dead Brother
• 1965
  • The Apotheosis of the Dollar
  • Gare de Perpignan
• 1967
  • Tuna fisheries
• 1970
  • The Bullfighter hallucinogen
• 1975
  • Gala looking the Mediterranean Sea which at twenty meters becomes a portrait of Abraham Lincoln - Homage to Rothko
• 1980
  • Athens burns!
• 1982
  • Pieta
  • The three puzzles glorious Gala
• 1983
  • Dovetail

Sculpture

Salvador Dal tells a child, he made a sculpture of Venus de Milo because she was on her pencil box: it was his first attempt at sculpture .

From the 1930s , Dal tries in the third dimension with Surrealist objects. It creates objects with a symbolic function Retrospective Bust of a Woman - Bust: bread and ink by assembling a fad millinery painted porcelain with various other salvage (1933). In 1936, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali work together to achieve the Venus de Milo with Drawers.

The sculpture will remain long in the creation anecdotal Dali, despite rare exceptions (Bust Rhinocerotic of Vermeer's Lacemaker, 1955). It will be up to the creation in three dimensions in the 1960s and especially 1970 with the creation of the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dal : Bust of Dante (1964), chair of vulture wings (1960), Lilith - Homage to Raymond Roussel (1966 ), Napoleon's funeral mask that can be used to cover a rhinoceros (1970).

Homage to Newton (1969)

From this period dates the production of bronze sculptures made from his most famous paintings such as The Persistence of Memory, the Profile of Time, The Nobility of Time, Venus giraffe, The hallucinogenic Toreador, The Venus Space Alice in Wonderland, the Elephant show space with extreme force of the expressive power of its iconographic images surreal.

The Espace Dali presents the collection includes over fifteen original sculptures giving this show its status as the largest collection in France.

Jewelry design

Dal made his first jewelry after the war in New York: The Eye of Time (1949), Ruby Lips (1950), The Royal Heart (1953).

Architecture

House Dal Portlligat

In 1939 , for the Universal Exhibition, he created the Dream of Venus pavilion. It was a surreal fairground attraction, with among others, Venus struck down by the fever of love on a bed of red satin, sirens and giraffes. In this house, the fact remains that the memory, some forty photos of Eric Schaal , an eight-minute film, and the fabulous quadriptych to soft watches, preserved in Japan.

The painter of Surrealism was an art of living. At Port Lligat , he decorated his house in his own way, "a prince of kitsch, irony and derision." Its library is intentionally inaccessible, with rows of books located at the top of the wall so that nobody can reach them. In the axis of the phallic swimming pool, a temple with a large altar table, where he receives protection from the sun and his friends. The bottom of the pool, the phallic shape, is covered with sea urchins, it is a command from the master sculptor Caesar who made a casting of polyester for "walking on the sea urchins as Christ walked on waters ". The patio is shaped like a silhouette of a woman drawn from Millet's Angelus. The sofa is made by a cast lips of Mae West. The wall, called "Pirelli wall is decorated with large advertisements for tires.

In early 1970, the Theatre-Museum in Figueres is finally clear. Dal takes to heart the concept of this museum built in his honor: "I want my museum to be a single block, a labyrinth, a great surrealist object. It will be a theatrical museum. Visitors will leave with the feeling of having had a theatrical dream. " .

Literature

Dal's writings form an important body which is published in its entirety in Spanish. He wrote at least since adolescence, poetry, some literary texts and newspaper that was recently published

He has published numerous texts that expose his ideas, his conception of the painting and give biographical information of great interest to understand the genesis of some of his paintings.

Yes outlines his theoretical views in two major texts: The revolution paranoiac-critical and scientific Archangel

Two autobiographical texts remain the most famous author, written in a very personal style:

• The Secret Life of Salvador Dali which gives the most interesting biographical details including his childhood, his problematic relationship with his father and acquired the belief from childhood that he was a genius.

• Diary of a Genius covering the years 1952 to 1963.

Dal wrote during the war, a single novel Hidden Faces . He depicts the French aristocracy during that war, including the passionate love of two characters, the Duke of Grandsailles Clder and Solange. The latter is an illustration of what he himself called the cldalisme aimed at closing the "passion trilogy inaugurated by the Marquis de Sade," whose first two elements are sadism and masochism.

Salvador Dal was also shown Fantastic Memories ( 1945 ), The House without windows, Labyrinth ( 1949 ) and The Limit ( 1951 ) by Maurice Sandoz , whom he met in New York in the early 1940's.

Complete works in Spanish

Destino editions and the Foundation Gala-Salvador Dal have edited the complete works of Salvador Dal in 7 volumes (in Spanish):

• Volumen I: Textos autobiogrficos 1, 2003, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3569-5 )
• Volumen II: Textos autobiogrficos 2, 2003, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3570-1 )
• Volumen III: Prosa, teatro, cine y poesa, 2004, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3626-5 )
• Volumen IV: Ensayos I, 2005, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3779-8 )
• Volumen V: Ensayos II, 2005, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3780-4 )
• Volumen VI: Album, 2004, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3627-2 )
• Volumen VII: Entrevistas, 2006, ( ISBN 978-84-233-3880-1 )

List of literary works published in French

• My friend and Beach, 1927
• The Donkey rotten, published the first issue of Surrealism in the service of the revolution, July 1930
• Yes. The revolution paranoid critical Archangel scientific editions Denol, 2004, ( a href = "Sp% C3% A9cial: Ouvrages_de_r% C3% A9f% C3% A9rence/2207256219" class = "mw-internal-magiclink isbn"> ISBN 2-207 - 25621-9)
• Hidden Faces, Editions Stock, October 29, 1973, No. Issue | 2720 No print | 2848050187
• The Secret Life of Salvador Dal. Am I a genius?, Critical edition by Frederick Joseph Lowery from manuscripts Gala and Salvador Dal, ed. The Age of Man, October 2006. Foreword by Jack Spector. ( ISBN 2-8251-3643-3 ) . Dal and Disney liked each lot, and Dal regarded the filmmaker as a "great American surrealist" (great American surrealist) as well as the Marx Brothers and Cecil B. DeMille . Decades later, Roy E. Disney found the work of Dal and decided to resume the project after finding that the legal rights to those tables returned to Disney . The ingredients of this film are present in the table Dali Melancholy, Atomic Idyll Uranic dated 1945 . In this movie, Salvador Dal tells the story of a vanished people he has traced the course of a travel "Upper Mongolia." In fact, the story is completely invented. It was enough to put some of Dal's urine on the ring of a pen, waiting to act as corrosion, to film the remote effects macro and micro, all complemented by a commentary of "historian".

Reports Dal movies have been in 2004 a documentary film called Cinema Dal. Since June 2007 and until September 2007 , the Tate Modern in London offers a retrospective of his work in connection with the world of cinema. But more recently the filmmaker Marie-Dominique Montel has collaborated with Christopher Jones, the expert film Dali and filmmaker also to make a movie cinema as Dali. In 2010, this film tells the painter's ideas in the field of film counts with the participation of Catherine Millet and Jose Montes Baquer.

Other films:

• Jean-Christophe Averty & Robert Descharnes "The Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dal, 1967
• Advertising claims for chocolate Lanvin, 1968: one plane in which Dal, standing and facing the camera says "Ye souis CRAZY! ... Lanvin double chocolate! "
• 2009 : Little Ashes , by Paul Morrison , with Robert Pattinson in the role of Salvador Dal.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky in his aborted film project for the novel Dune , had asked Dali to play the role of Emperor Shaddam IV. This requires, among others, to be paid astronomical costs 100 000 dollars an hour and offered a throne of inspiration scatological .

The world of theater

Dal was also involved in several projects related to the theater:

• in 1927 , he collaborated with Federico Garca Lorca to the room Marina Pineda;
• He was the author of the book Bacchanale, inspired by Tannhuser Richard Wagner

During his stay in New York, Dal produced several backdrops, scenery and costumes for ballet :

• Bacchanale (1939)
• Labyrinth (1941)
• Helena (1942)
• Romeo and Juliet (1942)
• Coffee Cinitas (1943)
• Mad Tristan (1944)

The world of fashion

Dal, throughout his life and his work has maintained a long and intense relationship with the world polymorphic fashion. In his constant desire to materialize limitless creative capacity that conspicuous, he explored the creative registers the most heterogeneous of the fashion industry, leaving in each of his trademark special.

• As part of the piece Bacchanale, he worked with Coco Chanel to design costumes and decorations
• In 1930 , he participated in the creation of several models including a famous hat-shaped shoe, and with the dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli , the dress he created "lobster";
• in 1950 , with Christian Dior , he designed the famous suit of 1945 cabinets.

Rhino Dal Puerto Banus (sculpture weighs 3.6 tons)

Among the inventions Dalinian in what we might call "virtual fashion" - as its model the form of writings and drawings have not been made - we can cite:

• The dresses, with false dividers and stuffed dummy of anatomy, designed to excite the erotic imagination, as Dal himself commented in Vogue: "All women with fake breasts in the back - exactly inserted in place of blades - will enjoy a winged appearance. "
• The makeup on the cheeks hollow to eliminate shadows under the eyes.
• Kaleidoscopic spectacles especially recommended for travel by car boring.
• Fake nails compounds of mini mirrors in which we can contemplate, specially adapted to support the costumes of the evening.
• The spring musical shoes to brighten walks.

But Dali was not limited to imagine fashion sketches "virtual", he also collaborated in producing designs "real" as:

• The dresses that Edward James asked him to create for her friend the actress Ruth Ford and were conducted by Elsa Schiaparelli , the Italian haute couture seamstress living in Paris, with whom he worked throughout the 1930s for reasons of fabrics and designs for decorating their robes and hats, among them the famous "hat-shoes' which is already part of the surrealist imagination.
• Models for stage performances: first sketches with the costumes of the model Mariana Pineda until his drawings for many ballets and plays, in which participated the most known models that her friend Coco Chanel was created for "Bacchanale," the first ballet "paranoid-kinetic."
• Women's swimwear that fully compress the breasts to cover up the bust and so give a look angelic.
• The tuxedo aphrodisiac coated glass filled with peppermint liqueur hit.
• Ties that George McCurrach asked him to draw with iconographic motifs emblematic Dali: lips glued to a phone-crawfish, ants swarming on soft watches ...
• The design of his mustache hair-metamorphic antennas.
• The perfume bottles Dalinian of "Rock and Roll" designed by Mrs. Davis Mafalda - a "toilet water" to man who was selling more expensive as Dior - until his latest perfume bottle which was inspired by "The appearance of the face of the Aphrodite of Knidos in a landscape. "Through" Shocking "perfume pink Schiaparelli he realized the advertising.

The fantastic jewelry Gala, a great admirer of the legendary jeweler Faberge, invited him to draw from its own iconography.

• Advertisements for fashion companies such as American-famous advertising campaign for low Bryans published as Vogue.
• The costumes for the dances of Lent, beginning with the controversy over holding Gala 'dream dance' performed in his honor by Caresse Crosby in the Red Rooster, New York, to the Venetian inordinately long dresses for the Bal the Century "at the Palace of Charles de Beistegui that Christian Dior made from a drawing by Dal.

But what was Dali dandy - he succeeded in being elected the most elegant man in France . Its sharp corners and rocks with strange shapes are well known to walkers of Cadaques. Dal's often used in his paintings (examples: The Great Masturbator, 1929 The Nose Napoleon turned into a pregnant woman walking among the ruins of its original shadow, 1945)

Food

• Pain : is pictorial essential, present from 1926 The classic bread basket, rather than death defilement throne in 1945 at the place of honor works by Dal presented in the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dal in Figueres , expressing the importance of this table. During its first transatlantic crossing, he dreams of making a loaf of 15m . His major Dal seems symbolic: "The bread was one of the themes of fetishism and obsessions of my earliest work, the first one I'm still the most faithful . "
• Egg on the dish without the dish: Their image reminds Dal the phosphenes that occur when one compresses the eyeballs. He combines an intrauterine memories .

Miscellaneous

• Soft watches : Creating art can be the most famous Dal, they leak like a pie : And then, but what connection between cheese and mysticism? . "
• Back and buttocks : The back and buttocks of women are present very early in the work, particularly on the portraits of his sister Anna Maria in Cadaques 1925, 1926). Later, a more explicit as a young virgin auto-sodomized by her Own Chastity (1954) illuminate the meaning of these erotic poses.
• Gala : The muse appears in 1931 in a tiny work a real tour de force of miniaturist, exposed to the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dal with a magnifying glass to better appreciate the details. His portraits are then very numerous, his face and hair making it easily recognizable characteristic. It appears from the front (The Angelus of Gala 1935) or back (my wife, naked, looking into his own body, three Vertebrae of a Column Sky and Architecture 1945), naked (Leda Atomica 1949), Mary (The Madonna of Port Lligat 1950), a bare breast (Galarina 1945).
• Crutches : The discovery of a pair of crutches in the abandoned house where he was resting Pitchot was a revelation. She immediately became a fetish object that long again, often to support a soft appendage. It reveals the anguish of powerlessness prevails in Dal before his sexual encounter with Gala.
• Excrement : In 1929, the presence in the picture a man wearing a stained underwear scandal in the small circle surreal. Gala was sent a delegation to ensure that the young Catalan had no inclination coprophagy, which horrified them. Gala could reassure them, while it warned against Dal's state of mind "petty bourgeois" of a group of artist who claimed a total sincerity, however .

Artistic works

• The Angelus of Millet : Millet's painting became an obsession with Dal from 1929 his characters always appear in , 1965. Dal was often explained on the eroticism of the painting, along with its belief that the couple prayed around the coffin of their dead child. Surprisingly, a radiograph performed at the Louvre reveals a rectangular dark area and under the earth, between the two characters .
• Venus de Milo : Reference occasionally, she first appears in a sculpture diverted with his friend Marcel Duchamp , as an image and turning into a bullfighter in the hallucinogenic toreador.

Primer dalinien

Avida Dollars

Artists and avant-garde intellectuals of the twentieth century, including most Marxists have often concealed their close ties with the capitalist market of art and literature. However, Dali, who loved to swim against the tide, has always flaunted his love for money. And so, when Andre Breton , would denigrate him in forming the nickname "Avida Dollars" - an anagram of Salvador Dali - it took the nickname to his account, in order to provoke, and converts it into one of its symbols Most significant, so it is now part of his "Golden Legend."

In reply to Andre Breton , Dali said that his prudence counseled him in his teens as much as possible to become "slightly multimillionaire." Later, back on the case, he said "It was Andr Breton to bite my attraction to bright gold, which coined the anagram ... It felt so wonderful to pillory my name, but he has done nothing other than dialing a talisman ... America has welcomed me as a child prodigy and covered my dollars ... The gold lights me and the bankers are the supreme priests of religion Dali. " .