By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian It’s safe to say the one hope for fast-approaching 2018 that everyone would surely wish for is that peace and freedom may be as ubiquitous around our world as soft watches and tall crutches were around Dalí’s surrealist world. In homage to such a glorious goal, I…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian If I had to name a Salvador Dalí painting very few people know about; one which almost nothing has been written about; and which, in my view, is one of the most colorful, nuanced and intriguing of Dalí’s oils – it would be “Nativity of a New World.”…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian Given the real reason for the season, let’s today look at Salvador Dalí’s wonderful – and unusual – “The Trinity,” which was an oil study for “The Ecumenical Council,” both works created in 1960. “The Trinity,” while a preparatory study for the much, much larger “Ecumenical Council,”…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian We generally don’t think of Salvador Dalí as a sculptor or a creator of assemblages. Instead, Dalí was a painter. A print maker. A watercolorist. A writer and performance artist. But sculpture or other three-dimensional objet d’ art aren’t readily identified with the art of Dalí. Contrasting…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian Very shortly, a larger-than-life character-hero traverses the globe in a rather unlikely vehicle – a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. Salvador Dalí – our own brand of character-hero – never got a driver’s license. But he managed to get around in a variety of conveyances – including one of…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian I think I know why Salvador Dalí’s portrait work is so intriguing: it gives us an opportunity to see the way Dalí saw when his vantage point was not through the lens of his paranoiac-critical vision. In other words, his imagination – for the most part – did not play…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian What an adrenaline rush to discover works by Salvador Dalí you’ve never seen before! It’s like encountering this master painter for the first time. Or like a wide-eyed child opening a present under the Christmas tree and going flailing-arms-bonkers over what’s inside. Thanks to the Fundacio Gala-Salvador…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian It seems that, depending on with whom you talk, a painting that is reportedly the earliest known surrealist work by Salvador Dalí may be the real deal or subject to further research. The news hit in 2014, when a collector came forward to reveal an oil painting he’d…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian Photography played a major role in the most photographed international artist ever: Salvador Dalí. Indeed, photographers for decades loved focusing their lenses on the artist, because his colorful and legendary antics – together with his facial expressions, facial hair, and fanatical poses – all made for amusing and…
By Paul Chimera Salvador Dalí Historian Thanksgiving in America is over, so next up are Christmas and Hanukkah – and Salvador Dalí’s creativity most definitely did not take leave for the holidays. In fact, his gift of artistic genius seems to have shone in a magical way, as seen in a number of his Christmas-themed works….