The Salvador Dal

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The Salvador Dalí Museumin Figueres, Spain.

• The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent
  home of the world's most comprehensive collection
  of the renowned Spanish artist's work. Compiled
  by the A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse over a
  45-year period, it is celebrated for its 96 oil
  paintings.

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The Salvador Dalí Museum

• With oils spanning from 1917
• through 1970, the collection
• provides an excellent overview
• of Dalí's major themes and
• symbols.
• Characterized by its diversity,
• it includes the Impressionist
• and Cubist styles of his early
• period, abstract work from
• his transition to Surrealism,
• the famous surrealist canvases
• for which he is best known,
• and examples of his
• preoccupation with
• religion and science
• during his classic period.

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The Salvador Dalí Museum

• In addition to the 96 oil
• paintings, the collection
• includes over 100 watercolors
• and drawings, 1,300 graphics,
• photographs, sculptures and
• objects d'art, and an extensive
• archival library.
• Periodic rotations of the
• collection and special
• exhibitions allow museum goers
• to view new work on repeat
• visits.

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Salvador Dalí

• Dalí was born in the town of
• Figueres, Spain located inland at
• the foot of the Pyrenees near the
• French border. The landscape in
• this region has been a major
• inspiration and influence on all of
• Dalís work. In the summers, the
• Dalí family often retreated to their
• residence in the nearby coastal
• town of Cadaqués, where they
• stayed annually for many years.
• This self-portrait, painted
• about 1921 indicates that Dalí's
• style had become less impressionistic
• and subject.

Self Portrait (Figueres) (1921)
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Salvador Dalí

• This view of Cadaqués from the rock terraces
• above the Dalí family home was painted during
• Dalís Second year at the San Fernando Academy of
• Fine Arts. He chooses a powerful composition from
• his homeland, presenting its tranquility in
  historic
• form. The style of the Post Impressionist painter
  
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is evident in the
• Geometric treatment of the landscape and village.
• The design of the trees sinuous, rhythmic, and
• echoing the shape of the balloon in the sky -
• contrasts with the blocky houses in the distance.
• If the seven young women in the foreground
• appear similar to one another, it is because Dalí
  used
• his sister, Ana María (1908-1990), as the model
  for
• all of them. Ana María was Dalís only sibling
  and was

Portrait of My Sister (1923) , fragment
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Salvador Dalí

• Several ambiguous elements in this painting
  make it
• feel more like a dream then reality. First,
  judging by
• the scale of the building next to the girl, she
  appears
• to be far too large for the landscape. She is
  posed
• with her windswept, diaphanous dress clinging to
  her
• figure provocatively. In addition while the
  landscape is
• painted in a fairly realistic manner, the curves
  of the
• girls body are highly exaggerated and
  accentuated.
• Finally, the girl is viewed from behind, creating
  a
• sense of mystery. By hiding the face, Dalí denies
  the
• viewer any psychological details that the girls
  face
• would provide.
• This girl originated in childhood fantasies
  about a
• fictional Russian girl whom he nicknamed
  Galuchka.
• He saw this girl in one of the images in an
  optical
• theater/stereoscopic box in the house of his
  childhood
• teacher, Señor Trayter. The artist wrote in his
• autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí
  that
• these images were to stir me most deeply, for
  the

Girl with Curls (1926)
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Salvador Dalí and Gala

• Besides that Gala became the wife of the Dalí, it
  throughout all life remained it muse.

Gala Nude Seen from Behind. 1960.
Galatea of the Spheres.1952
Salvador Dali. The Madonna of Port Lligat. 1950
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The Salvador Dalí Museum

• Three-dimensional works Dalí
• experiments with holography
• and three dimensional space.

Salvador Dali. Rinoceronte vestido con
puntillas.1956
Visit own museum The Teatre-Museu Dalí-is
located in Figueres, Spain