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Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a Surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art. In his 1942 book The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Dalí wrote teasingly of his demand to know why, when he asked for a grilled lobster in a ...
The Persistence of Memory (Spanish: La persistencia de la memoria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí and one of the most recognizable works of Surrealism.First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol [a] gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (/ ˈ d ɑː l i, d ɑː ˈ l iː / DAH-lee, dah-LEE, [1] Catalan: [səlβəˈðo ðəˈli], Spanish: [salβaˈðoɾ ðaˈli]), [b] was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre ...
Design. The dress is an A-line off-white silk evening or dinner dress with a crimson waistband featuring a large lobster painted by Salvador Dalí onto the skirt. The initial lobster motif was drawn by Dali and printed onto the dress by the silk designer Sache. [1] The dress is also illustrated with sprigs of parsley. [2]
Landscape Near Figueras (1910) The Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida; Vilabertran (1913), Private collection; Fiesta in Figueres (1914–1916) Head of Athene (1914) Landscape Near Ampurdan (1914) Untitled (1914) Untitled – House by a Lake (1914) Dutch Interior (1915) Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation; 1916-1918. Empordà Landscape (1916) Gala ...
1942. The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the internationally renowned artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier. It covers his family history, his early life, and his early work up through the 1930s, concluding just after Dalí's ...
Paranoiac-critical method. The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. [ 1] He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images. The technique consists of the artist invoking a paranoid state (fear ...
The Sacrament of the Last Supper is a painting by Salvador Dalí.Completed in 1955, after nine months of work, it remains one of his most popular compositions. Since its arrival at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1955, it replaced Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can as the most popular piece in the museum.