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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Dali, Salvador (1904 - 1989) Spain
White Aphrodisiac Telephone, 1936
Mixed Media 20 x 30 x 15 cm Surrealism
UID 102-149
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Biography
Dali first came into contact with the world of painting through an impressionist artist friend of his father. He studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and his early works are simultaneously bearers of formal innovation and of traditionally academic features. Dali held his first one-man show in Barcelona at the Dalmau Gallery in 1925 and, as from 1928, his adherence to the Surrealist movement began. He was officially accepted as a member of the movement in 1929 through the piece, Dismal Sport. He took part in numerous exhibitions and published various articles in periodicals of the time. His first theoretical contribution to the Surrealist movement was called the "paranoiac-critical method", proposed as a means of destabilising the world, in the belief that everything the observer sees could be something else entirely. This was a positive form of automatism through which he intended to portray invisible objects instead of the images subconsciously associated with them. He contributed to the International Exhibition of Surrealism at the New Burlington Galleries in London, 1936, and at the Galerie Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1938. During the 30s, his indifference to politics alienated him from the other Surrealists and, in 1937, he painted a series of paintings "celebrating" Adolph Hitler which was considered an act of extremely bad taste and led to his being expelled from the Surrealist movement. During the Second World War, he was in the United States where he became a fashionable artist, demanding the return to Classical Art, and where he received tremendous public recognition. In 1948, he returned to Europe and effectively cut himself off from Surrealism. Although different, his work continued to focus on his desire, on one hand, to follow the teachings of the old masters and, on the other, to introduce new visual experiences. Optical illusion, photographic realism, divisionism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art are all to be found in his later work. Dali was buried in the Teatre-Museu Dali in Figueres, founded in 1974, which is not only the repository of a large part of his work but is also a theatrical monument to his ideas and personality.
Exhibitions
O Surrealismo Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Brazil 20-08-2001 ~ 28-10-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 08-07-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Dalí Dalí featuring Francesco Vezzoli Moderna Museet, Sweden 19-09-2009 ~ 17-01-2010
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Fernando Lemos e o Surrealismo – Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 9728902034
MiragensPerversas, 2006 Published by Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal ISBN no
O Surrealismo, 2001 Published by Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
Pomar - Autobiography, 2004 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9723709066
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