dalí 101: an introduction

denver botanic gardens docents

peter tushfeb 9, 2021

Denver Botanical Gardens, April 10 Aug. 22, 2021

Exhibition of nearly 40 works mixing motifs two series of prints, FlorDalí and Surrealist Flowers,

Catalonia and the intriguing images of his Surrealist works.

Salvador Dalí

May 11, 1904 January 28, 1989

goal for this talk:

1. establish love of his landscape

2. briefly look at the two botanical print suites

3. introduce dalí his art, ideas, and life,

from the st. petersburg collection

1. love of his costa brava landscape

grandiose geological

Dalí declared that his Catalan homeland was "by

far the most beautiful place in the world."

His art responds to this Mediterranean delirium

the jagged Costa Brava, the dreamlike beaches, the

rolling valleys, the awe-inspiring Pyrenees.

2. botanical print suites: flordalí, 1968

Flordalí was inspired by French and German botanical illustrators from the 17th-19th Centuries, including

Basilius Besler, Georg Ehret, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Flordalí, 196810 photolithographs with drypoint etching and embossing

Published by Jean Schneider, Basel, and Michelle Broutta, Paris

Rose (Rose Papilio)

1968

Lys (Lilium musicum)

(Lily)

1968

Marguerite (Chrysanthemum

frutescens)

1968

2. botanical print suites: flordalí - les fruits, 1969-70

Flordalí - Les Fruits1969

12 photolithographs of original gouaches painted on printed illustrations +

original engraving;

Published by Jean Schneider, Basel

Cerises Pierrot(Cherries)

1969

Prunier hâtif(Plum)

1969

Pamplemousseérotique

(Grapefruit)

1969

3. dalí: art, ideas, life

setting the stage: the morses

A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse,

Founders

This Dalí Museum opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 11, 2011

This Dalí Museum currently has approximately 80 active docents

A. Reynolds & Eleanor Morse,

Founders

origins

Figueres, Spain, located on the

Ampurdan plain in the Spanish

province of Gerona

father & mother just after

their wedding, 1900

Felipa DomènechFerrés

& Salvador Dalí Cusí

The first born Dalí son:

Salvador Galo Anselmo Dalí (October 12, 1901 -

August 1, 1903)

He died as a 22 month old toddler from upper respiratory illness

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech

Born May 11, 1904Figueres, Spain

1908:

Anna Maria, is born.

The family purchases a summer home in Cadaqués on the Mediterranean Costa Brava

Dalí often declared that his homeland was "by far the most beautiful place in the world."

View of Cadaqués with

Shadow of Mount Pani

1917

Self-Portrait (Figueres)

1921

madridart school, new

ideas, new friends

The Residencia

des Estudiantes,

Madrid

Federico Garcia Lorca poet,

& Luis Buñuel filmmaker

Interpretation of Dreams,

published 1900; trans. Spanish 1924

Cadaqués

1923

Femme Couchée,(Figure on the

Rocks)

1926

Oil on panel

The Basket of Bread

1926

Francesco de Zurbaran:Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and Rose, 1633

hand-painted dream photographs

Apparatus and Hand

1927

Luis Buñuel, circa 1928 Portrait of Luis Buñuel, 1924

Sigmund Freud in his studioAmerican silent film star

Buster Keaton: "The Great Stone Face"

paris, surrealism, symbols & gala

First Days of Spring

1929

Man Ray: The Surrealist Group, Paris, 1930:L to R: Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Hans Arp,

Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, René Crevel, Man Ray

Helena DiakanoffDevulina

"Gala" Dalí

Born in Kazan, Russia

August 26, 1894June 12, 1982

father issues, melting watches,

millet

Salvador Dalí

The Average Bureaucrat

1930

Persistence of Memory, 1931, MOMA

Cullero of Cape Creus

Jean-Francois Millet

The Angelus

1855-57

For Dalí, the female figure's posture is "...symbolic of the

exhibitionistic eroticism of a virgin

in waiting, the position before the

act of aggression such as that of a

praying mantis prior to her cruel coupling

with the male that will end with his

death."

Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus, 1933-35

fashion, objects, freud

1936: Dalí becomes an international

celebrity:

Man Ray photo of Dalí on cover of Time magazine,

December 14, 1936

Dalí with Coco Chanel

1937

Elsa Schiaparelli &Salvador Dalí

Evening dress with lobster print, 1937Red and white silk

organza

Cecil Beaton photo:Wallis Simpson in

Lobster Dress

Three Young Surrealist Women

Holding in Their Arms The

Skins of An Orchestra

1936

Lip Sofa (Saliva Sofa), 1936

Lobster Telephone

1936

1936 lecture in deep sea

diving suit

In July, 1938, Dalí finally

meets Freud

double images

Slave Market with the

Disappearing Bust of

Voltaire

1940

features formed by two Dutch women in

the archway

On June 10, the French government fled Paris, first to Tours and then, on June 14, to Bordeaux. Germany and France sign an

armistice on June 22, when Bordeaux falls.

dalí in america 1940-1948

The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

1942

Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth

of the New Man

1943

Dalí's comparative table of artists from 50 Secrets of

Magic Craftsmanship

179 Vermeer

176 Raphael

173 Velazquez

168 Leonardo

148 Dalí

105 Picasso

85 Ingres

47 Meissonier

37 Manet

29 Bouguereau

6 Mondrian

Dalí with Alfred Hitchcock

discussing dream

sequence of Spellbound,

1945

For the dream sequence, Dalí

delivered the requisite

melting clocks, slit eyeballs,

deep shadows, and long vistas

Dalí with Walt Disney in Port

Lligat

She is a ballerina who transforms into a dandelion

Key double image sequence of Destino, 1946

the bomb & nuclear mysticism

Atomic explosion

1945

Atomic model showing the nucleus composed of protons

and neutrons surrounded by

orbiting electrons.

Harold Edgerton: Milk Drop Coronet;

Stroboscopic image, 1936

Dalí's stylized signature adopted Edgerton's image

Leda Atomica

1947-49

Philippe Halsman

Dalí Atomicus

1948

return to spain; jewels, catholicism,

large canvases

villa in

Port Lligat

Eye of Time brooch, 1949

(platinum, ruby and diamonds)

Ruby Lips brooch, 1949

Slumber with a key: In his 50 Secrets, Dalí illustrates his simple invention using

a key and a tin plate to help a person remember

their dreams.

Dalí demonstrates his new invention,

the Ovocipède, in 1959

Christ of St. John of the

Cross

1952

heisenberg & geometry

Nuclear Mysticism

"Today the exterior world that of physics

has transcended the one of psychology. [Instead

of Freud,] my father today is Dr. Heisenberg."

- Dalí, Anti-Matter Manifesto, 1958

Nature MorteVivante

(Still Life-Fast Moving)

1956

Floris van Schooten (Dutch, 1590 - 1655):Table with Food, 1617, Private Collection

Page from Matila

Geometry of Art & Life

art of bullfighting

The Hallucinogenic Toreador

1968-70

The inspiration for the illusion: a box of

pencils

The

face: from study to canvas

Dalmatian and Dalmatian by Ronald C. James

a museum, lincoln & perception

Dalí in the Teatro Museo Dalíduring construction

Teatro Museo Dalí with geodesic dome and Torre Galatea

Mae West room from the side with Lip Sofa

Dalí read Leon article, "Recognition of Faces,"

in a 1973 issue of Scientific American.

It demonstrated how the mind fills in missing visual information to

help recognize familiar forms.

Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea

Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of

Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko)

(second version)

1976

passing

On January 23, 1989, Salvador Dalí died in a hospital in

Figueres

from heart failure and respiratory

complications

Under this slab, under the Geodesic dome, is the tomb of Dalí, the Marqués de Dalí de Púbol.

Epitaph:

someday I die, though it may never happen, I hope that

the people in the cafes in Figueres will

say, 'Dalí has died, but not entirely

- Dalí

April 10 Aug. 22, 2021

Enjoy the Dalí

botanical exhibition!

Thank you