On this day: 1989, the Catholic artist Salvador Dalí died. he was known for his striking and bizarre images and surrealist work, as well as his publicity stunts and self-consciously outrageous behaviour. Dali was born in 1904, in Figueres, Spain. He went on to study at an academy in Madrid, before going to Paris in the 1920s, meeting such artists as Picasso, Magritte and Miró. His most famous work is perhaps his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, of melting clocks in a landscape setting. He skilfully employed optical illusions, holography and geometry within his paintings, which often contained images of divine geometry and religious themes. Dalís post–World War II period bore the hallmarks of technical virtuosity and an intensifying interest in optical effects, science, and religion. He became an increasingly devout Catholic, while at the same time he had been inspired by the shock of Hiroshima and the dawning of the atomic age. Therefore Dalí labeled this period Nuclear Mysticism. In paintings such as The Madonna of Port Lligat (first version, 1949) and Corpus Hypercubus (1954), Dalí sought to synthesize Christian iconography with images of material disintegration inspired by nuclear physics. His Nuclear Mysticism works included such notable pieces as La Gare de Perpignan (1965) and The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–70). Dalí died in Figueres in 1989.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:00:00 +0000
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