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Salvador Dalí: Mastering the Surreal Realm of Imagination
Salvador Dalí is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles.
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Salvador Dalí – L’énigme sans fin
Entre cet artiste éclectique et provocateur et les surréalistes parisiens, les relations se tendront progressivement à partir de 1934 jusqu’à la rupture avec Breton, cinq ans plus tard. Pourtant, l’art de Dalí relève bien de l’esthétique surréaliste dont il a conservé le goût pour le dépaysement, l’humour et l’imagination.
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Salvador Dalí – The never-ending enigma
Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a prime example of his freshness, humour and exploration of the subconscious mind. Throughout his life, Dalí was a genius at self-promotion, creating and maintaining his reputation as a mythical figure.
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Mr. Roboto: The Human Mechanics of Francis Picabia’s Art
“The machine has become more than a mere adjunct of life. It is really a part of human life…perhaps the very soul…” said the French Dada-artist Francis Picabia (1879-1952). While unbeholden to any singular artistic style, Picabia built a world out of his Transparencies and machinery or “mechanomorphs” − a world that mirrors and reveals the construction of our own. Influenced by the fast-paced grind of American industry and specifically New York life in the early 20th century, Picabia paintings display the blueprint of an ascension, of our mechanical evolution over time, and the trajectory in which we still head. They just as poignantly, if not more so, represent the…
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