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Salvador Dali

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PThis stunning Taschen Portfolio features 14 full-color frame-able prints by the great surrealist artist Salvador Dal#237;.P"Every morning when I awake," said the painter of ISoft Watches/I , "the greatest of joys is mine#58; that of being Salvador Dal#237;..." The native Catalonian was obsessed with both money and fame; painting and speaking were his main occupations, his favorite subject--how to discover one's genius. Not exactly loved by the Surrealists, who criticized him for extravagance and his addiction to money , Dal#237;'s paranoiac-critical method nonetheless provided them with a first-rate instrument to liberate intelligence and imagination from the bonds of memory and dream.PHad he been born during the Renaissance, his genius would have met with greater acceptance than was the case in our era, which saw him as a constant source of provocation; he, for his part, described the era as "degenerate." Dal#237; commented#58; "the only difference between me and a madman is the fact that I am not mad," remarking pithily that "The difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist." Dal#237; decodes the fantasies and symbols of his Surrealist visions, penetrating the depths of the irrational and subconscious, elevating hard and soft to the level of aesthetic principles. He and Gala, his wife and muse, are mythical couple, she his "existential double," his "perpetuation in immortal memory." At age three, Dal#237; had wanted to become a cook, aged five Napoleon. Thereafter, he continually aspired to something higher--to be divineDal#237; forever...BR

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Barnes & Noble

Release: May 14, 2008

ISBN: 1435106830

ISBN 13: 9781435106833

Salvador Dali

4.2/5 ( ratings)

PThis stunning Taschen Portfolio features 14 full-color frame-able prints by the great surrealist artist Salvador Dal#237;.P"Every morning when I awake," said the painter of ISoft Watches/I , "the greatest of joys is mine#58; that of being Salvador Dal#237;..." The native Catalonian was obsessed with both money and fame; painting and speaking were his main occupations, his favorite subject--how to discover one's genius. Not exactly loved by the Surrealists, who criticized him for extravagance and his addiction to money , Dal#237;'s paranoiac-critical method nonetheless provided them with a first-rate instrument to liberate intelligence and imagination from the bonds of memory and dream.PHad he been born during the Renaissance, his genius would have met with greater acceptance than was the case in our era, which saw him as a constant source of provocation; he, for his part, described the era as "degenerate." Dal#237; commented#58; "the only difference between me and a madman is the fact that I am not mad," remarking pithily that "The difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist." Dal#237; decodes the fantasies and symbols of his Surrealist visions, penetrating the depths of the irrational and subconscious, elevating hard and soft to the level of aesthetic principles. He and Gala, his wife and muse, are mythical couple, she his "existential double," his "perpetuation in immortal memory." At age three, Dal#237; had wanted to become a cook, aged five Napoleon. Thereafter, he continually aspired to something higher--to be divineDal#237; forever...BR

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Barnes & Noble

Release: May 14, 2008

ISBN: 1435106830

ISBN 13: 9781435106833

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