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Dali Basic Art Series 2.0



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  • Dali Basic Art Series 2.0
  • Dali Basic Art Series 2.0
  • Dali Basic Art Series 2.0
  • Dali Basic Art Series 2.0
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From soft watches to burning giraffes, this book celebrates the fantastical world and flamboyant personality of Salvador Dalí, one of  the most visionary and prolific artists of the 20th century. 

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise, and of modernism in general.

Dalí frequently described his paintings as  “hand-painted dream photographs.” Their tantalizing tension and interest  resides in the precise rendering of bizarre elements and incongruous  arrangements. As Dalí himself explained, he painted with “the most  imperialist fury of precision,” but only “to systematize confusion and  thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.”

Revolutionizing the role of the artist, the mustache-twirling Dalí also had the intuition to parade a controversial persona in the public arena and, through printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and film, to create  work that could be consumed and not just contemplated on a gallery wall.

This  book explores both the painting and the personality of Dalí,  introducing his technical skill as well as his provocative compositions  and challenging themes of death, decay, and eroticism. 

  • Author: Gilles Néret 
  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Taschen, 2015
  • 96 pages, 10.5" x 8.6"
  • ISBN:  9783836560009 
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