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The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the internationally renowned artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier.
- Salvador Dalí
- 1942
An excellent, thought-provoking, and fascinating book from any number of perspectives, *The Secret Life of Salvador Dali* is every bit as unsettling, paradoxical, elusive, contrary, and, ultimately, beautiful, as the paintings for which Dali is so well-known, so misunderstood, and so famous.
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Mar 3, 1993 · The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) Paperback – March 3, 1993. Painter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century art.
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- The Persistence of Memory
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus
- Lobster Telephone
- The Great Masturbator
- Swans Reflecting Elephants
- The Temptation of St. Anthony
- The Elephants
- Christ of Saint John of The Cross
- The Burning Giraffe
The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 artwork by Salvador Dali that is well recognized as a masterpiece of Surrealism. The artwork was first presented at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932 and has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City since 1934, when it was given to the museum by an unidentified donor. It is well-kn...
Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) is an oil-on-canvas work by Dali that shows his rendition of the Greek fable of Narcissus. It was originally named Métamorphose de Narcisse. Dali started painting in the spring of 1937 in Zürs, Austria, amid the Austrian Alps. According to Greek mythology, Narcissus’ beauty attracted practically everyone who saw hi...
The Lobster Telephone (also known as the Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist artefact designed by Salvador Dali in 1936 for the English poet and surrealist art collector Edward James (1907–1984). Dali teased in his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dali about why, when he ordered for a grilled lobster at a restaurant, he was never given a bo...
The Great Masturbator (1929) is a Salvador Dali artwork from the surrealist era that is presently on exhibit in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. The painting’s center features a deformed human face in profile facing downwards, based on the shape of a natural rock formation near Cap de Creus on Catalonia’s seashore. A similar...
Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) is a picture by Dali during his paranoid-critical era. It is an oil on canvas painting depicting one of Dali’s renowned double images. Dali’s “paranoia-critical technique,” which he proposed in his 1935 article “The Conquest of the Irrational,” included the use of double images. He described his approach as a “spon...
The Temptation of St. Anthony was painted in 1946, and it is considered a predecessor to the corpus of Dali’s work known as the “classical phase” or the “Dali Renaissance.” Many surrealistic aspects are included in the artwork, which is characteristic of his work. It was significant since it was the first of his works to show his interest in the in...
Dali’s elephants are a reoccurring topic in his works, first appearing in his 1944 piece Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening, as well as The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Swans Reflecting Elephants. The Elephants differs from the other paintings in that the animals are the primary focus of the work, ...
Christ of Saint John of the Cross is a 1951 artwork that is at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. It represents Jesus Christ on the cross floating above a body of water under a black sky, complete with a boat and fisherman. Although it depicts the crucifixion, it lacks nails, blood, and a crown of thorns because Dali was persuaded b...
The Burning Giraffe (1937) is an oil painting on panel that is on display in the Kunstmuseum Basel. Before his exile in the United States from 1940 to 1948, Dali painted Burning Giraffe. Although Dali professed himself apolitical (“I am Dali, and only Dali”), this artwork depicts his personal struggle with the conflict in his own country. A giraffe...
Sep 26, 2024 · The most interesting and revealing of Dalí’s books is The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942). In addition to his art and writing, Dalí also created a monument to himself, the Dalí Theatre-Museum, in his hometown of Figueras, which opened in 1974 and features art from his collection.
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- Salvador Dalí was the son of Salvador Dalí Cusí, a notary, and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. His family lived in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain, but spent su...
- Salvador Dalí began his formal education at a public school in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain, but, because of the boy’s daydreaming, his father switch...
- Salvador Dalí was a Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker known for exploring subconscious imagery. Arguably, his most famous painting is The P...
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. The exhibition gathers 126 original illustrations of the 136 the artist created for the first edition of The Secret Life, dating from 1942. The technique used in most of them is India ink on paper.
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SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALÍ . AS LITERARY TEXT. by Fèlix Fanés . At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Salvador Dalí’s oeuvre seemed to become fragmented. Between 1939 and 1944, he produced considerably fewer works. More significantly, very few of his oil paintings were of high quality, and fewer still reflected great ambition.
