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Dalí: Disruption and Devotion

 

July 6 through December 1, 2024

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

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Salvador Dalí, Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy (The Three Ages), 1940

 

The outlandish and iconoclastic artist Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) is famous for his bizarre imagery, eccentric behavior and unparalleled technical skill. The renowned Surrealist was also, however, deeply rooted in tradition. He revered his artistic predecessors—among them Dürer, Raphael, El Greco, Vermeer and above all Velázquez. Opening this summer, the first-ever exhibition of work by Dalí at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) examines this sustained engagement with European art of the past. Dalí: Disruption and Devotion presents nearly 30 paintings and works on paper on loan from the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, as well as books and prints from a private collection, which are shown alongside works from the MFA’s European collection made by artists who inspired him. The unique juxtapositions, presented in both pairings and small thematic groupings, offer a new take on one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.

 

Dalí spent his youth in the small Spanish town of Figueres, north of Barcelona near the Catalan coast. His artistic talent was noticed early on, and at 18, he enrolled at Madrid’s San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. On a trip to Paris in 1929, Dalí connected with the Surrealist group through another Catalan artist, Joan Miró. In the words of the group’s leader, André Breton, Surrealism aimed to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality.” The unconscious mind was first explored in literature, but the movement soon expanded to the visual arts, with Dalí a highly visible member of the circle.

 

“The Surrealist movement, announced by André Breton in 1924, is 100 years old. The MFA’s exhibition, using superb loans from the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, offers a timely opportunity to reconsider the most famous Surrealist in terms of the historical artists he deeply admired,” said Frederick Ilchman, Chair and Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings, Art of Europe.

 

Dalí: Disruption and Devotion showcases a broad range of Dalí’s best-known works, in terms of subject matter, chronology and scale. Highlights include:

 

 

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The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–54), a reworking of Dalí’s single most famous picture, painted two decades earlier, which shows his preoccupation with the elasticity of time

 

 

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The 10-foot-tall Ecumenical Council (1960), which includes art historical references, religious themes, elements from earlier works and a hyper-realistic self-portrait in the lower left corner

 

Velázquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory (1958), paired with Velázquez’s Infanta Maria Theresa (1653) to demonstrate Dalí’s deep reverence for the 17th-century Spanish painter

 

 

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Morphological Echo (1936) and Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life-Fast Moving) (1956), examples of how Dalí distorted and riffed upon 17th-century Dutch and Flemish still lifes

 

Four of Dalí’s reinterpretations of Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos (1799), one of the greatest print series of European art, which include detailed embellishments and revised captions, shown facing Goya’s original etchings

 

Sainte Hélène à Port Lligat (1956), presenting Dalí’s wife and muse Gala in the guise of Roman Emperor Constantine’s mother Saint Helena, which is paired with El Greco’s Saint Dominic in Prayer (about 1605) to show both artists meditating on solitude and the power of spiritual experience

 

 

Sponsors

Dalí: Disruption and Devotion is generously supported by the William Randolph Hearst Foundations. Additional support from the Alexander M. Levine and Dr. Rosemarie D. Bria-Levine Exhibition Fund and an anonymous funder.

 

About the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The MFA brings many worlds together through art. Showcasing masterpieces from ancient to contemporary, our renowned collection of nearly 500,000 works tells a multifaceted story of the human experience—a story that holds unique meaning for everyone. From Boston locals to international travelers, visitors from across the globe come to experience the MFA. Through both art and audience, the Museum brings together diverse perspectives—revealing connections, exploring differences, creating a community where all belong.

 

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https://www.mfa.org 

 
*아티스트와 뮤즈 (3) 살바도르 달리의 마돈나, 매니저, 악처 갈라(Gala)
https://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?mid=Art2&document_srl=3917234
 
*살바도르 달리 요리책 '갈라의 저녁식사' 리바이벌 출간
https://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?document_srl=3529710&mid=Art2
 
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  • sukie 2024.07.30 20:39
    살바도르 달리하면 제일 먼저 떠오르는 그림이 있습니다.
    "기억의 지속"이라는 그림이지요. 앙상한 나무가지에 걸려있는 축 늘어진 시계와 책상 위 모서리에서 아래로 늘어뜨린 시계가 어느 화가에게서도 볼 수없는 그림이라 눈이 번쩍했습니다. 초현실주의를 만든 화가라는 것도 알았습니다.
    저는 그림은 감상하고 나면, 느낌이 아름답다거나 감명을 주는 예술이라고 생각했습니다. 그런데 달리의 그림은 vice versa였습니다. 역겨움을 느꼈다는 게 제 심정이었습니다.그런데 초현실주의를 알고나니까 생각이 바뀌었습니다. 달리가 천재화가 였구나라는 결론이 내려졌고 그의 그림이 움직이고 있는 것같음을 느꼈습니다. 그의 말처럼 내 그림은 영원하다고 자신있게 말했듯이 영원함을 느꼈습니다.
    -Elaine-