{"id":9463,"date":"2007-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/fundacio-dali\/noticia\/dali-a-l-epicentre-del-cinema\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:20:18","slug":"dali-at-the-epicentre-of-cinema","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/www.salvador-dali.org\/en\/dali-foundation\/news\/dali-at-the-epicentre-of-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Dal\u00ed at the epicentre of cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition argues that Dal\u00ed\u2019s personal engagement with cinema\u2014as a fan, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director\u2014was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected the different stages of his career. Dal\u00ed is widely regarded as one of the most outrageous artists of the twentieth century and his paintings are among the most recognizable works of art made in the last hundred years. And, as the exhibition reveals, his collaborations with Luis Bu\u00f1uel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney also created some of the most memorable and influential scenes in avant-garde and mainstream cinema.\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Dal\u00ed, Paintings &amp;\u00a0Films<\/em> explores his long and changing relationship with the cultural phenomenon of cinema and features approximately one hundred works from collections around the world, including a significant number of paintings. These will be seen alongside Dal\u00ed\u2019s major film projects such as <em>Un Chien andalou<\/em> (1929), <em>L\u2019\u00c2ge d\u2019or<\/em> (1930), <em>Spellbound<\/em> (1945), and <em>Destino<\/em> (1946), as well as examples of the later films he created himself, <em>Chaos and Creation<\/em> (1960)\u2014shot on video\u2014and <em>Impressions of Upper Mongolia<\/em> (1976). Related photographs, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts will also be on view.<\/p>\n<p>\nDal\u00ed was part of the first generation of artists for whom film was both a formative influence and a creative outlet. Throughout his career, and in many mediums, he frequently referenced elements of cinema: its episodic nature, popular appeal, narrative structure, techniques like fades and dissolves, and strong characterization of its stars. For example, an early series of drawings about Spanish nightlife from 1922\u201323 illustrates Dal\u00ed\u2019s appreciation of the strong graphic aesthetic of the silent expressionist films of that era. Later paintings like <em>The Great Masturbator<\/em> (1929) and <em>William Tell<\/em> (1930) reveal his interest in creating compositions that dissolve into other images and coincide with the artist\u2019s first movie collaborations, films that he co-wrote with Spanish director Luis Bu\u00f1uel in 1929\u201330: <em>Un Chien andalou<\/em> and <em>L\u2019\u00c2ge d\u2019or<\/em>. Other paintings such as <em>Autumnal Cannibalism<\/em> (1936) and <em>Metamorphoses of Narcissus<\/em> (1937) demonstrate Dal\u00ed\u2019s ability to imply animated movement and narrative while even later paintings like <em>Portrait of Colonel Jack Warner<\/em> (1951) and <em>Portrait of Laurence Olivier in the role of Richard III<\/em> (1955) show how the idea and techniques of film moved from an influence on his work to its very subject at a time when the artist himself began to want to make his own movies.<\/p>\n<p>\nJust as Dal\u00ed brought cinema to life in his paintings, his fantastical, other worldly perspective oozed onto the film screen. Both <em>Un Chien andalou<\/em> and <em>L\u2019\u00c2ge d\u2019or<\/em> are marked by the artist\u2019s vivid imagination and his engagement with the Freudian theories that energized surrealism, especially the study of dreams and the unconscious. The films include haunting images\u2014such as the slicing of an eyeball with a razor and a hand infected with ants\u2014mirroring the disturbing anatomic depictions in major paintings of that moment, including <em>Apparatus and Hand<\/em> (1927) and <em>Inaugural Goose Flesh<\/em> (1928).<\/p>\n<p>\nEventually, Hollywood called and Dal\u00ed moved beyond the realm of avant-garde films. While exiled in the United States during the second world war, he began work on major studio productions. His dream-like vision proved ideal for the 1940s movie industry and on the cinema screen, where total immersion in Dal\u00ed\u2019s imagination became possible for a mass audience. Dal\u00ed seized the opportunity to work on Twentieth Century Fox\u2019s <em>Moontide<\/em> (although ultimately his sequence was not included in the film), Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s <em>Spellbound<\/em>, and Walt Disney studio\u2019s <em>Destino<\/em>, an animated film completed 2003. The famous dream sequence for Hitchcock\u2019s thriller brought the disquieting universe of contemporary paintings such as <em>Melancholy, Atomic, Uranic Idyll<\/em>, to grand scale but in total, Dal\u00ed achieved only limited success with these projects. His role was ultimately marginalized to the realm of fantasy and nightmare. Nonetheless, he remained an important influence in Hollywood and his impact still resonates in the nightmare sequence from the 1950 film <em>Father of the Bride<\/em> and the hallucinatory aesthetic of the 1966 <em>Fantasic Voyage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe exhibition brings together a team of scholars who will contribute to the comprehensive catalogue: Dawn Ades (curator of the\u00a0Centenary Retrospective Exhibition), Montse Aguer (Director of the\u00a0Centre for Dalinian Studies, Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation), F\u00e9lix Fan\u00e8s (curator of the show\u00a0<em>Dal\u00ed:\u00a0Mass Culture<\/em>) and Tate curator Matthew Gale. The LACMA showing of this exhibition is co-organized by Ilene Susan Fort, the Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, and Sara Cochran, Assistant Curator of Modern Art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Dal\u00ed, Paintings &amp; Films<\/em> is coorganized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with Fundaci\u00f3 Gala\u2013Salvador Dal\u00ed, (Figueres, Spain), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About LACMA<\/strong><br \/>\nEstablished as an independent institution in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has assembled a permanent collection that includes approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition argues that Dal\u00ed\u2019s personal engagement with cinema\u2014as a fan, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director\u2014was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected the different stages of his career. 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