Me, Let’s Hope I Make It

Photo © Ben Zank

As to Edna, I don’t know whether she will like him or not

Photo © Ben Zank

Dalinian Dancer

Dalí’s Dancer (1949) reflects his admiration for the art of dance, especially the Spanish Flamenco. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Alice in Wonderland

Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland (1977) is a hymn to the eternal girl who don’t get overwhelmed by the inhabitants of the surrealist world. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it”. Salvador Dalí

Unicorn

The unicorn is a mythical creature prominent in legends as an intricately linked symbol of purity. The horn of a unicorn is believed capable of neutralizing any poison. In his Unicorn (1977), Dalí chose to portray the unicorn as a phallic figure whose horn penetrates a stone wall through a heart-shaped opening, from which a drop of blood seems to be slowly falling. The nude, reposing female stretched out in the foreground at the hooves of the animal and defended by the mythical beast, underlines the sensual nature of this sculpture. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Homage to Terpsichore

Terpsichore is one of the famed nine Mythological muses. In creating his Homage to Terpsichore (1977), Dalí uses a reflected image, setting the soft, carnal muse against the hardened, statuesque one. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Dance of Time I

Dance of Time I (1979) is the most well-known and beloved of Dalí’s iconic images; the fluidity of time is represented through the melting watch as time not only moving, but dancing in rhythm to the beat of the universe. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Woman Aflame

Woman Aflame (1980) unites two of Dalí’s obsessions: fire, and a female figure with drawers. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Surrealist Piano

The Surrealist Piano (1954) is one of Dalí’s major iconoclastic symbols. The artist has chosen to transform the banal woodden legs of a piano, replacing them with dancing female legs, thus creating an animate, joyous instrument that can dance as well as play. Photo: Mado Flynn.

Between Dream and Reality

Salvador Dalí exhibition “Between Dream and Reality” with over 100 works in the medieval town Pietrasanta, Lucca, Italy (November 12, 2016 – February 7, 2017). The Pietrasanta Cathedral and the evocative spaces of the church and the cloister of Saint Augustine are actually hosting over one hundred works by Salvador Dalí. Photo: Isadora Duncan.

Les nuages, c’est quoi?

René Magritte, Le Genre Nocturne, 1928. Photo: Damian Griffiths/© ADAGP/DACS.