![]() ![]() In the early 1930s, Pablo Picasso suggested to the Swiss publisher Albert Skira that he commission Dalí to create a series of intaglio prints for a new edition. In true avant-garde fashion, Dalí chose not to respond directly to specific passages in the text, but to pursue free interpretations that echo his Surrealist paintings of the period. This part of his life is reflected in his illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror, a poetic text describing violence, cannibalism and debauchery. The French writer Guillaume Apollinaire is often recognized as coining the term, “surréalisme” in 1917, relative to the ballet Parade, created by Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, and his own play Les Mamelles de Tirésias. Surrealism has come to describe works that extend beyond realistic representations through surprising juxtapositions and suggestions of the workings of the subconscious mind.Įarly in his life, Dalí characterized himself as an amoral nihilist, who favored free association and the exploration of the most primal human instincts. ![]() Surrealism, as an artistic movement, is well known for suggesting aspects of experience that delve into realms of dreams, fantasies, absurdities, fears, and desires. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is perhaps best known for his surrealist paintings that fascinate audiences with extraordinarily strange, beautiful and often grotesque imagery that challenges normative structures of time, fractures ordinary boundaries of human embodiment, and depicts excesses of thought and expression. Rubin. This exhibition demonstrates the artist’s obsessions with the threats and possibilities of evil and redemption and offers a fresh perspective on one of the titans of art history. On display are illustrations for a 1934 edition of Les Chants de Maldoror, a prose-poem by Comte de Lautréamont, first published in 1868 and later to become a surrealist favorite, as well as illustrations from a 1960 edition of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, originally commissioned by the Italian government to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the poet’s birth. Opening October 16 and continuing through November 15, the UTSA Main Art Gallery is host to Salvador Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven, curated by David S. Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 16, 5 - 7pm ![]() Illustrations for Les Chants de Maldoror and The Divine Comedy October 16 – November 15, 2019 ![]()
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