The sculpture was given with a telephone receiver. Surreal jewelry for special occasions and every day
So, after that we went to Figueres, which is famous, first of all, for the Theater-Museum of the great Salvador Dali - masters of surrealism. Figueres - hometown Dali, it is located 40 km from France and is considered the second most visited museum in Spain after the Prado in Madrid.
The title photo shows Gala-Salvador Dali square with the facade of the Theater-Museum and a monument to Dali's hand to the Catalan philosopher Francesc Pujols.
Below the cut are photographs of the museum and a lot of text for them. Don't be lazy, please read it, because... perhaps this will shed light on the characteristics of the creative genius of Dali and his masterpieces.
01. Actually, the monument is not only to Pujols himself (his gray bust is mounted on the head of Homer), whom Dali revered as a philosopher who opened the world to the Subconscious. In the background, in the form of a figure with an egg head, Dali presumably depicted himself. To the right of the figure is a monument to the hydrogen atom - element figurative system Dali.
02. Dali installation - giant head with a TV in his forehead. The sculpture towering nearby is Wolf Vostel's "Obelisk of Television": 
03. One of three monuments dedicated to the French painter Meyssonnier, mounted on car tires. 
04. A diver in a spacesuit, symbolizing a dive into the subconscious, next to him are figures with a loaf of bread - another favorite symbol of Dali.
The diver perhaps recalls the viewer to one event in Dali's biography. Once, by invitation, he gave lectures in this form at an American university. During the lecture, something happened to the oxygen supply, Dali began to choke, and only a miracle in the person of one student, who somehow figured out how to remove this spacesuit, saved Dali from death.
05. Courtyard. Statue installation by Dali "Rainy Taxi". The installation represents a Cadillac, inside of which it rains when you drop a coin. On the Cadillac stands a figure of Queen Esther by Austrian sculptor Ernst Fuchs, who is pulling a pillar made of car tires. The whole composition is crowned by the Gala Boat (named after Dali’s wife and muse - Gala, or Elena Dyakonova). The drops falling from the bottom of the boat are said to be condoms filled with blue paint. 
06. Boat Gala, black umbrella. Behind is the geodesic dome of the museum. 
07. The car is a frequently encountered iconographic element in Dali's work, it combines fossil matter and something from modern history person. Dali claimed that only 6 of these machines were made. and attributed the ownership of one of them to Al Capone (the famous “godfather”), explaining the broken glass in the exhibit on display at the museum. allegedly as an act of vandalism. According to the artist, one of the cars belonged to Roosevelt, one to Clark Gable, etc. And this 4th copy of the car was given by Dali to his wife Gala. Inside the Cadillac, rain continuously drips from a complex network of pipes towards great pleasure grape snails, keeping company with a couple of mannequins and their driver. 
08. The courtyard is also installed with statues made in the manner (or maybe deliberately) of Oscar statues, which greet their viewers. Here are grotesque monsters between the central windows of the courtyard. 
09. These sculptural groups of fantastic creatures emerging from the darkness consist of many various elements: snails, stones from Cape Creus, cut branches, fragments of gargoyles from the neighboring church of St. Peter, the whale skeleton, the stone horn, the drawers (also Dali’s favorite symbol in working with the subconscious) - this entire sculpture represents the masculine principle. 
10. "Nude Gala looking out to sea, which at a distance of 18 meters transforms into a portrait of Abraham Lincoln." Here Dali acts as an innovator of the idea of a double image. 
11. Author's copy on fabric of the painting "The Hallucinogenic Bullfighter", here Dali again resorts to the idea of a double image. 
12. One of Dali’s many installations. Visible biblical theme in the form of a crucified figure. Along the edges of the bust is Catalan bread of a bizarre shape, which is visible in many of Dali’s works, including in the exterior decoration of the theater-museum. 
13. Scene municipal theater(and previously there was a theater here, which was then donated to Dali by the local authorities) is crowned by a striking transparent dome, which has become a symbol of the Theater-Museum and of Figueres as a whole. The architect of this “geodesic dome”, reminiscent of the structure of a fly’s eye (Dali’s favorite insect in his works as a symbol of paranoia), was Emilio Pineiro. The dome is unique in its design, it creates a game mirror reflections and is a symbol of unity and monarchy according to Dali. 
14. "Ghost" sexual attractiveness"(one of Dali's first surrealist works). The artist often used this technique - a huge pompous frame and a small image in comparison with it. In the lower right part, Dali depicted himself as a child in a sailor suit, looking at a huge monster, soft and hard at the same time. This image for the artist it symbolized sexuality. The background is the hyper-realistic landscape of Cape Creus. It should be noted that there are crutches; for Dali this is a symbol of death and resurrection. 
15. Mae West Hall. In the center is a popular three-dimensional installation dedicated to this American actress. The eyes of the image are enlarged, retouched photographs of pointillist paintings with views of Paris; the nose is a fireplace with logs, the famous sofa-lips. Other elements include a fan with a clock, an antique clock, two jugs, a Venus de Milo and a giraffe neck and drawers. 
16. In order for the entire composition to turn into a three-dimensional image of the actress’s face, you need to climb the steps to the camel and look into the lens suspended from the camel’s belly. 
17. Also in this room: a bathroom on the ceiling, turned upside down: 
18. On the left is a giant wig - Mae West's hair, it was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest wig ordered by Dali from a famous hairdresser. 
19. And here is the actual image that viewers see through a lens suspended from a camel: 
20. Dali was a multi-talented person and also tried his hand at designing display windows for various stores. This display case is called "Retrospective Female Bust". The artist supplemented this bust with ants, corn cobs, a ribbon from an antique zoetrope projection apparatus, a loaf of bread with a bronze inkstand (a hint of the profession of a lawyer, which his father was) and figures from the painting “Angelus” by Millet, so common in Dali’s figurative system. The role of the pedestal is played by a hand in a black glove, around which another hand made of white paraffin is wrapped. The display is completed with a shark jaw, a skeleton of a flying fish, a real spoon with an illusory plastic cup and an ambiguous rhinoceros horn. 
21. In the second showcase, Dali creates an ensemble of images; against the background of the same pheasant feathers, a jacket from Coco Chanel and sculptures stand out - “Flower of Evil” in the form of a glass paste jug with feet inserted into it (one is paraffin, the other is an anatomical model) and mythological brothers Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux. sons of Zeus and Leda (here they are presented in the form of 2 figurines, the round tops of which are made from casts of the butts of babies). It should be noted that Dali himself always identified himself with Zeus, and Gala with Leda. As is known from Greek mythology- they were brother and sister. So Dali had similar feelings for Gala all his life and considered it blasphemous to violate them with carnal desire. 
22. Dali claimed that the view of the stage or courtyard with the installation "Rainy Taxi" (as in in this case) from the gallery window was one of the main pleasures given to him by the Theater-Museum. 
23. One of Dali’s graphic works. What attracted me to it was that Dali boldly balances between masculine and feminine, boldly weaving gender symbols into the canvas of the painting. 
24. Hall "Palace of the Wind". This room was especially dear to Dali, because here for the first time, being 14 years old, he exhibited his works and received a lot of praise in the press. The first thing that catches your eye in this room is the delightful painting on the ceiling. Dali said that this picture is fraught with a paradox: the spectators looking up seem to see clouds, the sky and 2 figures rising into the air (Dali and Gala) - in fact, this is a purely theatrical effect, since instead of the sky we see the earth, and instead of land there is a sea, embodied in the bend of the Bay of Rosas. And, Dali adds, in the center, where the sun used to be, there is a hole, and in it - deep night, and from the depths human subconscious a submarine surfaces. The edges of the picture are the most significant works Dali, his symbols and signs. (They are not visible here) 
25. Entrance to Dali’s working studio. On the right is a bust of Velazquez, one of Dali's favorite artists, whom he always admired. In the middle - graphic portrait Gala. On the ceiling there is a panel "Palace of the Wind" with elements of Dali's figurative system (see previous photo). 
26. Dali Studio. His workshop dedicated to the theme of the Eternally Feminine. In the center of the room is “Nude” by William Adolphe Bouguereau, known as a salon and academic artist. Above the sculpture, a distinctive modernist-style lamp attracts attention with the head of the blindfolded goddess Fortune rising above everything on a spiral of teaspoons suspended from the ceiling. 
27. In the corner of the room on an easel there are 2 paintings - “Galatea of the Spheres” and “Portrait of Gala with Symptoms of Birth”, dating back to the period of nuclear mysticism. 
28. Fortune with spoons. 
29. Bedroom. On the wall is a tapestry from the painting “The Persistence of Memory”, located in the museum Contemporary art in NYC. In his autobiography" Secret life Salvador Dali" the artist describes Gala's reaction when she first saw this painting: "I closely watched Gala's face and saw how her surprise turned into admiration. This convinced me that new image makes an impression, because Gala always unmistakably identified a real mystery. I asked her:
- Do you think that in 3 years you will remember this picture?
Once you see it, you won't forget it."
30. Millet's painting "Angelus". Elements of this painting have already been seen on a bust in a designed display case called "Retrospective Female Bust". It was not for nothing that Dali introduced them into his work, but... he used them for a slightly different purpose. The fact is that the artist depicted a man and woman praying in his painting. While working in the field, they paused and performed the usual ritual of prayer for that time. On background the church is visible. But Dali would not have been Dali if he had not seen in this harmless picture secret meaning. He conducted extensive research and came to the conclusion that a woman, standing in a certain position, stands in the same way as a female praying mantis, which, after mating with her male, kills him. So Dali decided that a woman and a man bowed down before sexual intercourse, after which the man’s fate was sealed. 
31. Here are Dali's documentary research on his theory of the female praying mantis and the figure of a woman in Millet's painting. 
32. “If it falls, it falls.” Still life in Dutch style, bought by the artist in Paris and "dalinized". The artist made an allegory out of this still life as a sign of his gratitude to his friend, the Catalan philosopher Francesc Pujols. The changes made by Dali are clearly visible on the canvas, and the inscription on the table is Pujols’ phrase - “If it falls, it falls.” This phrase, which gave the name to the painting, ended an extensive and complex philosophical text that greatly interested Dali. According to some artists, here Dali prophetically wrote the date of his death (on the dial of the melted clock) - 01/23/1989. 
33. Hall "Lodge", dedicated to optical tricks - stereoscopy, anamorphosis and holography. 
34. And once again “Retrospective female bust” with figures from Millet’s “Angelus” and ants on the face. Dali considered such a female bust ideal and was horrified by the magnificent size of the bust. Eyewitnesses even claimed that Dali fainted at the sight of the huge bust. 
35. The stage of the theater-museum with a huge panel “Labyrinth” based on the myth of Theseus and Ariadne. This work was the setting for a series of Diaghilev ballets, which were successfully staged in New York. Here Dali’s theatricality is most obvious: in the center the bust is a man-mountain (his head casts the same shadow as the mountain casts) with a through opening in the chest. Behind is the landscape of Cape Creus, invariably present in Dali’s paintings. The creator of this entire theater-museum is buried under this stage. We were not allowed into the small dark room adjacent to the women's toilet that day. Salvador Dali's coffin is placed in the wall. And on it is a small white tombstone with the inscription: " Salvador Dali Domenech Marques de Dali de Pubol 1904 - 1989".
During his lifetime, Dali was given the title of Marquis.
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37. "Portrait of Beethoven, painted with 2 octopuses and Dali's toe." Dali took 2 octopuses, dipped them in paint and simply threw them on the canvas, they crawled, wriggled and left their bizarre marks on the canvas. And then Dali simply completed the portrait. 
38. Dali installation under a geodesic dome. 
39. Once again the installation "Rainy Taxi" and a view of the stage behind. 
40. Tower of Galatea, made by Dali especially for the Gala. On the facade is the same Catalan bread that I already mentioned. Eggs - refer to the ancient Greek epic that the children of Zeus and Leda were born from eggs. However, in Dali they can be interpreted both as the birth of a new life and as his inextricable, “identical” connection with Gala. His eternal muse, after whose death his life lost all meaning. 
I hope you don't get bored with Dali;)
From myself I can say that Dali, although not my favorite artist, is a genius and an amazingly able-bodied person. Living your life like this, as if every day you are playing a surreal play that only you understand, is not so easy.
In the next post, Spanish Tarragona - a cozy town in Catalonia!
/ Dali - designer / Lobster phone
Beyond the canvas. Surreal items- lobster phone
What happens if you combine an industrial object with an object of living nature, a thing that has a practical purpose with something that carries only symbolism? Salvador Dali did not ask these questions, he simply combined the incompatible, shocking and enjoying the result.
Incomprehensible and absurd at first glance, bewitching with its deep inner meaning, the combination of a telephone with a lobster (lobster) gives birth to an object that is highly surreal.
The phone of the future, or a device that enhances sexual desire
The Lobster Telephone, also known as the Aphrodisiac Telephone, was born from the mind of Salvador Dali in 1935. Fulfilling an order from the weekly New York edition of American Weekly, Dali drew a “telephone of the future” - a device that has... a lobster instead of a handle.
As Dali himself later explained in 1938, this idea is based on a simple thesis that lobsters will replace telephones in the future. It is known that lobster, like many other seafood, is an aphrodisiac. For Dali this is an animal for a long time was a symbol of sexual desire. Omar also appeared in some other paintings and photographs of the maestro.
According to Dali's plan, the lobster's genitals are at the level of the microphone of the telephone handset. Thus, the speaker will have to bring his lips closer to them. Perhaps this is one of the most clear examples of the symbolization of sex and sexual desire through animals and products.
A little later, in his “The Secret Life...” Dali will write: “I don’t understand why, when I order fried lobster at a restaurant, they never serve me boiled lobster; I still don’t understand why champagne is always drunk chilled, but here are some telephone handsets, which are usually so disgustingly warm and unpleasantly sticky to the touch, are never served in the same silver buckets and are not covered with crushed ice.”
There are currently 5 official color copies of The Lobster Phone in existence. Among them there are both absolutely similar and different models of telephones. One phone is kept in the Dali Museum in London, the second in the Telecommunications Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the third in the Edward James Foundation in New York, the fourth in Australia. national gallery, in Canberra, the fifth is on display at the Tate Gallery, London.
There are also 6 white copies of the amazing phone. One of them is exhibited at the Art Institute in Minneapolis, the second is in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Salvador Dali Museum. The rest are in private cultural center, located in Belem, Portugal and belong to collector Joe Berardo.
Did you like the site? Would you like to say thank you? Place a direct active hyperlink in the form The exhibition itself was first presented in 1936 at the London Exhibition of Surrealist Art. In total, the sculpture was made in five versions and can now be viewed in various museums around the world: in Australia, in Liverpool, and so on. Collector Isidr Klot, who once bought his wax figures from the artist, ordered bronze castings. Soon the collection of original bronze sculptures created a sensation in the world of art. Many of Dali’s sculptures were subsequently increased many times in size and became decorations not only in museum halls, but also in the squares of many cities around the world. https://static.kulturologia.ru/files/u21941/219414890.jpg" alt=" Surreal piano by Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." title="Surreal piano by Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." border="0" vspace="5">!} Exquisite objects and forms inspired the artist to create many unique surreal images. In this sculpture, the master replaced the wooden legs of a piano with dancing, graceful female legs. In this way, he revived the instrument and turned it into an object of pleasure for both music and dance. On the lid of the piano we see a surreal image of the Muse trying to soar above reality. Salvador Dali turned to the image of an elephant both in painting, as evidenced by the painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony”, and repeatedly in sculpture - “Cosmic Elephant”, “Rejoicing Elephant”. This bronze sculpture depicts an elephant walking on thin long legs through outer space, carrying an obelisk symbolizing technological progress. A powerful body on thin legs, according to the author’s idea, is nothing more than “the contrast between the inviolability of the Past and the fragility of the Present.” In his work, the great Spaniard repeatedly turned to the personality of Newton, who discovered the law of universal gravitation, thereby paying tribute to the great physicist. In all the sculptures of Newton created by Dali, the apple is a constant detail, which led to the great discovery. Two large through niches in the sculpture symbolize oblivion, since in the perception of many people Newton is only a great name that is devoid of soul and heart. a person is half-bird, or a bird is half-man." It is difficult to determine which part of these two dominates, because a person is not always who he appears to be. The author wants to leave us in doubt - this is his game. https://static.kulturologia.ru/files/u21941/000dali-0015.jpg" alt=" Woman on Fire. Author: Salvador Dali. Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." title="Woman on fire. The obsession of two ideas: the flame of passion and the female body with secret drawers in which the secrets of every woman are kept, Salvador Dali clearly manifested himself in surreal sculpture"Женщина в огне". Под пламенем художник подразумевал подсознательное страстное желание и пороки всех женщин - нынешних, прошлых и будущих, а выдвижные ящички символизируют сознательную секретную жизнь каждой из них.!} Surreal warrior. Surreal warrior. https://static.kulturologia.ru/files/u21941/000dali-0009.jpg" alt=" Cosmic Venus. Author: Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." title="Cosmic Venus. This sculpture is also called “beauty without head and limbs.” In this work, the artist glorifies a woman whose beauty is temporary, fleeting and perishable. Venus's body is divided into two parts by an egg, which creates a fantastic impression of weightlessness in the sculpture. The egg itself is a symbol of the fact that inside a woman there is a whole unknown world. The image is filled with expression, eternal non-stop movement, original freedom and insubordination to man.".!} https://static.kulturologia.ru/files/u21941/000dali-0013.jpg" alt=" Saint George and the Dragon. Author: Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." title="Saint George and the Dragon. https://static.kulturologia.ru/files/u21941/219416024.jpg" alt="Surrealism of Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." title="Surrealism of Salvador Dali. | Photo: dolzhenkov.ru." border="0" vspace="5">!} Ten bronze sculptures, based on wax models of Salvador Dali sculptures, are located right in the open air on the Marbella promenade in Spain. Hello, dear readers of the site Sprint-Response. Today, June 3, 2017, the next TV game “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” took place. with host Dmitry Dibrov. In this article you can get a brief overview of the game, find out the correct answers in the game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" for 06/03/2017
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One of the most prominent representatives of surrealism - Salvador Dali was not only an outstanding painter and graphic artist, but also a sculptor, creating his creations exclusively from wax. His surrealism was always cramped within the framework of the canvas, and he resorted to three-dimensional depiction of complex images, which later formed the basis of his paintings.Salvador Dali Museum in Paris
In Paris, Montmartre, there is an entire museum dedicated to this brilliant Spanish artist. The greatest works of art created in the last century arouse genuine interest among the public and cannot leave any viewer indifferent: they awaken either delight or indignation. 
Dance of Time I.
Space elephant.
Surreal Newton
Bird Man
Vision of an angel
Snail and angel
Dali's surreal warrior symbolizes all victories: real and metaphysical, spiritual and physical.Tribute to Terpsichore
Horse under the saddle of time
Space Rhino
Spain. Night Marbella. Sculptures of Salvador Dali
Game "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" with Irina Apeksimova and Daniil Spivakovsky
