🖌️🎨 Salvador Dali (12)
🖌️🎨 Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí y de Púbol; 1904 - 1989) - Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, director and writer.
Painting directions: Surrealism, Dada, Cubism, Modernism.
🖼️“Persistence of memory” (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria)
1931
One of the artist's most famous works. The picture has acquired many popular names: “Time Profile”, “Flowing Time”, “Soft Clock”, “Memory Capacity”, “Memory Stability”.
Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1934.
🖌️🎨Salvador Dali
"Young virgin self-sodomous with the horns of her own chastity"
1954
The painting has many similarities with “Figure at the Window.” The pose of the girl, the position of the feet, the curls, the colors... It can be assumed that this is how Dali “took revenge” on his sister - there is too much similarity, and he said too much negative things about Ana Maria’s book in his interviews...
Later, in his work, the main features of the paintings of 1925 will be seen more than once: the image is from the back, the face is not visible, shell curls, Ana Maria’s half-sided pose, with a bare shoulder. This is a portrait of Gala from 1936, and “Alert Sign”, and “Slave Market with a Vanishing Bust of Voltaire”, and “Nude from the Back”.
Since 1949, the history of the painting has continued. So you can say. This year the book “Salvador Dali through the eyes of his sister” appeared, Ana’s memories of her brother.
These were rather prosaic memories, in which Ana did not extol her brother, did not praise his genius, did not agree with his uniqueness and exclusivity... She wrote that it becomes painful when a loved one puts on a mask, and the mask grows more and more attached to the soul.
Back in 1926, their relationship deteriorated: a painting by Dali appeared at the exhibition with his inscription: “Sometimes I spit on the portrait of my own mother, and this gives me pleasure” (by that time my mother had already died). How to interpret these words? And is there any meaning to them other than the obvious? Or is this another way to stand out, to attract attention, even by overstepping morality? Dali's relatives did not accept this. The father kicked his son out of the house. The connection with my sister (spiritual) finally disappeared after Gala appeared.
Sister Salvador's book was received negatively and harshly. She dared to claim that surrealism ruined his life, that it was an evil that destroyed their family. Many believe that she was biased, was jealous of her brother towards Gala and envied other people’s happiness.
🖼️"Figure at the window"
1925
The painting is also called “Girl at the Window” or “Girl Standing at the Window.”
Peace, freedom, asceticism are words similar to its main content, but only in conjunction with “memory”, “anxiety”, “fragility”, “mystery” do they fully describe the picture...
The girl stands leaning on the windowsill, looking at the landscape outside; lonely window - a window in Dali's house in Cadaques. Simplicity, but at the same time the presence of a mysterious component in the picture. This is reminiscent of magical realism.
In the painting “Figure at the Window” there is a strong sense of stillness, the viscousness of time and memory - this is facilitated by the cold bluish-pink colors, the transparency of the curtains, and the white fabric lying unusually on the windowsill.
There is no dynamics in the picture, there is monumentality.
It was only later, in 1939, that Salvador would write his famous work “The Persistence of Memory,” which contains similar feelings...
🖼️"Figure at the window"
1925
Right: 🖌️🎨Friedrich Caspar David
🖼️“Woman at the window”
1822
In the early period, Dali was influenced by the work of other artists on his own.
Between “Figure at the Window” by Salvador and “Woman at the Window” by Friedrich Caspar David, some parallels can be drawn in terms of composition.
🖼️“Girl reading a letter by an open window”
1657
Right: 🖌️🎨 Salvador Dali
🖼️"Girl's back"
1926
The neatness and careful description of the girls' curls is noteworthy.
🖼️"Figure at the window"
1925
🖌️🎨Salvador Dali
"Young virgin self-sodomous with the horns of her own chastity"
1954
The paintings have many common features.
The girl’s pose, the position of the feet, the curls, the colors... It can be assumed that this is how Dali “took revenge” on his sister - there is too much similarity, and he said too much negative things about Ana Maria’s book in his interviews.
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🖼️“Girl reading a letter by an open window”
1657
A painting by a Dutch artist that belongs to the early stage of his work. For some time it was attributed to other artists: Rembrandt and Pieter de Hooch. The ownership of the painting by Vermeer was finally established only in 1862.
The influence of Johannes Vermeer's work on Salvador Dali's desire to detail clothing and, in particular, hair cannot be overestimated.
🖼️“Girl from the back”
For these three paintings ("Figure at the Window", "Girl from the Back", "Girl's Back") Dali posed for his sister, Ana Maria (the girl's name is spelled with one "n").
After the death of his mother, she was a very close person to him. Ana was the only model and muse until his future wife, Gala, appeared in her brother’s life.
In 1926, this painting, like “The Girl from the Back,” was exhibited at the Dalmau Gallery. They received positive reviews from critics and artists, including Pablo Picasso.
🖼️"Girl's back"
1926
The hair is carefully depicted in the paintings, all of them have exactly three strands. But they are especially skillfully depicted in the miniature (12.5 by 10 and ¾ cm) “The Back of a Girl.” Here they are the center of the composition, its main part. Salvador Dali subjected them to thorough study, which is in his spirit.
The carefully detailed hair of the girls makes one remember the Dutchman Jan Vermeer, whose work Dali admired and more than once used his image and images from some of his paintings in his works.
🖌️🎨Friedrich Caspar David
🖼️“Woman at the window”
1822
Old National Gallery
Berlin
This painting uses the motif of the Ryukenfigur, or figure seen from behind, which is commonly associated with Frederick, who is known to have used this compositional device in many of his works. Rückenfigur serves as a surrogate for the viewer to experience what he is witnessing.
In this picture, the viewer is invited to look beyond the inner world into the outer world, as does a woman experiencing a feeling of melancholy.
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