Homework for 09.19.14 Salvador Dali Provided by William J. Herriott **All are welcome to join in the discussion** (Please feel free to post a comment on the homework in the comment area on the SSA Facebook page if you are unable to attend…. ) Meeting at Tony Morrows BBQ 3807 Main St Atlanta, GA 30337 (Start time 9:30pm) We are interested in building communities by participating in Exhibitions, Collaborations, Partnerships, Lectures, Critiques, and Educational development. w.Smokeschoolart.org e.ssofart@gmail f./SmokeSchoolArt VIDEOS https://youtube/watch?v=0rBcAESFjBw https://youtube/watch?v=xLuwiHw8gIw#t=17 https://search.yahoo/search;_ylt=AwrSbmvfthhUXacAWyxXNyoA?p=salvador+dali+video&fr2=sb-top&fr=crmas BIO biography/people/salvador-dal%C3%AD-40389#synopsis Expulsion from the Surrealists As war approached in Europe, specifically in Spain, Dalí clashed with members of the Surrealist movement. In a trial held in 1934, he was expelled from the group. He had refused to take a stance against Spanish militant Francisco Franco (while Surrealist artists like Luis Buñuel, Picasso and Miró had), but its unclear whether this directly led to his expulsion. Officially, Dalí was notified that his expulsion was due to repeated counter-revolutionary activity involving the celebration of fascism under Hitler. It is also likely that members of the movement were aghast at some of Dalís public antics. However, some art historians believe that his expulsion had been driven more by his feud with Surrealist leader André Breton. Despite his expulsion from the movement, Dalí continued to participate in several international Surrealist exhibitions into the 1940s. At the opening of the London Surrealist exhibition in 1936, he delivered a lecture titled Fantomes paranoiaques athentiques (Authentic paranoid ghosts) while dressed in a wetsuit, carrying a billiard cue and walking a pair of Russian wolfhounds. He later said that his attire was a depiction of plunging into the depths of the human mind. During World War II, Dalí and his wife moved to the United States. They remained there until 1948, when they moved back to his beloved Catalonia. These were important years for Dalí. The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York gave him his own retrospective exhibit in 1941. This was followed by the publication of his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942). Also during this time, Dalís focus moved away from Surrealism and into his classical period. His feud with members of the Surrealist movement continued, but Dalí seemed undaunted. His ever-expanding mind had ventured into new subjects. The Dalí Theatre-Museum Over the next 15 years, Dalí painted a series of 19 large canvases that included scientific, historical or religious themes. He often called this period Nuclear Mysticism. During this time, his artwork took on a technical brilliance combining meticulous detail with fantastic and limitless imagination. He would incorporate optical illusions, holography and geometry within his paintings. Much of his work contained images depicting divine geometry, the DNA, the Hyper Cube and religious themes of Chastity. From 1960 to 1974, Dalí dedicated much of his time to creating the Teatro-Museo Dalí (Dalí Theatre-Museum) in Figueres. The museums building had formerly housed the Municipal Theatre of Figueres, where Dalí saw his public exhibition at the age of 14 (the original 19th century structure had been destroyed near the end of the Spanish Civil War). Located across the street from the Teatro-Museo Dalí is the Church of Sant Pere, where Dalí was baptized and received his first communion (his funeral would later be held there as well), and just three blocks away is the house where he was born. The Teatro-Museo Dalí officially opened in 1974. The new building was formed from the ruins of the old and based on one of Dalís designs, and is billed as the worlds largest Surrealist structure, containing a series of spaces that form a single artistic object where each element is an inextricable part of the whole. The site is also known for housing the broadest range of work by the artist, from his earliest artistic experiences to works that he created during the last years of this life. Several works on permanent display were created expressly for the museum. Also in 74, Dalí dissolved his business relationship with manager Peter Moore. As a result, all rights to his collection were sold without his permission by other business managers and he lost much of his wealth. Two wealthy American art collectors, A. Reynolds Morse and his wife, Eleanor, who had known Dalí since 1942, set up an organization called Friends of Dalí and a foundation to help boost the artists finances. The organization also established the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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