A selection of 70 works from the permanent collection (painting, drawing, watercolors, prints and objects) representative Dalí’s various creations of the female image.
The selected works help trace the progression of Dalí’s depiction of women from his early student days - images of varioius women as models in academic studies - to a later period when Gala becomes his chief model and muse. As a young man, the artist’s sister Ana María was a prominent model. Girl's Back (1926) depicts Ana Maria’s head as viewed from behind in a Renaissance style. By 1928, Dalí is searching for a more experimental style – and the woman in The Bather takes on disconcerting transformations and fragmentations. Dalí's treatment of the female during the Surrealist period varies, at times imbued with a disturbing eroticism, or evoking maternal and the “eternal feminine” interpretations based on mythological figures. In a mid-career work, Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces (1938), Dalí treats the three female figures as the Three Fates.The surrealist and Freudian muse Gradiva becomes the spectral image of a woman as the object of obsession and the repressed forces of unconscious desire. His wife, Gala who becomes his exclusive model, is shown in this exhibition to gather all the many guises of woman.
The exhibition is curated by Joan Kropf and Dirk Armstrong.
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Northern Trust
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Mabel Palacin, a mid-career Catalan videographer, was commissioned to create video projections which reflect her interpretations of Dali, the museum, its setting and the collection. Mabel Palacin’s recent video work grew out of her earlier interest in photography where she made large scale black and white images suggestive of film stills and celebrity photography in the tradition of Dali’s celebrity portraits as seen in Dali and Mass Culture. Curated by William Jeffett; organized by the Salvador Dalí Museum.
This exhibition is sponsored by Season Sponsor Progress Energy and made possible by SEACEX and the Generalitat of Catalunya.
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