Salvador Dali Museum Report

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Salvador Dali Museum Report Salvador Dali (1904-89), a grand surrealist, was inspired by the unusual, psychology, science, dream studies, and the works of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. Dali painted canvases of every size, color, and subject. It was Dali’s thought provoking work that drew me to the museum dedicated to him in St. Petersburg, Florida. The official home of Dali's creations are in the back yard of my Tampa Bay community! His paintings explored current events, the subconscious and his life experiences. Chances are, if Dali painted it, there is a meaning behind it. Known for his now well recognized melting clocks in Persistence of Memory, 1931,oil on canvas, 9 ½ x 13 feet, and his picture perfect mustache, Dali’s work has taken …show more content…

Although he liked to trick the eye with famous double images and illusions, he still has many points of emphasis in The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. First, Dali draws the eye to Gala’s head by surrounding it with a glowing gold halo shape. When you see this symbol in art it represents divinity; attention is also brought to the giant sea urchin. It is, actually to my understanding, a sputnik sea urchin referencing the space race during the time period that this piece was created. It was during this part of Dali’s life that he began to be more in tune with current events. However, your eye is drawn to the sea urchin constantly because of the sheer size of it, giving it emphasis, and it is located in the bottom center of his …show more content…

Petersburg, there is another work of art that struck me as fascinating. It is titled: Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (Homage to Crick and Watson) 1963, oil on canvas, 120 x 163 ½ inches. The thing that drew me to this piece on the docent tour is that everything in the painting is within its name. Contextually this artwork holds personal meaning to the artist, history, and science. Dali combined his wife’s name Gala, Allah (Arabic word for Supreme Being), Cid Campeador (the feminine Cid) and the recent discovery of desoxiribunucelic acid (discovered in 1953 by Dr. Francis Crick and Dr. James Watson). It was painted in 1963, in response to the Rio Llobregat flood just outside of Barcelona, Spain, which killed more than 400 people. In response to this tragic event, Dali painted Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid and Cristo de Valles (sold to raise money for the flood victims). He created this piece as an elaborative cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. You can see the double-helix spiral of the DNA molecule which at this time represents the building block of life. (Center left on the canvas) The molecular formations represent many concepts such as death, self-inflicted annihilation, and the known scientific legacy of Arabs in Spain. In the work they all hold guns; one shoots, then they all go down. Also, the figures or shadows coming off from their feet are the ghostly souls of the men who have already died. Dali inserts his “genetic memory” into the

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