Description
“All the pleasure, all the magic took refuge in my eyes. “
– Salvador DALI.
What Dalí’s eye says to his brain
Dalí observes the forms of the world in correspondence, everything is linked, everything echoes. Since the microcosm leads to the infinitely large and matter is in motion, Dalí takes pleasure in dilating forms through intuitive fades that lead the observer to his imagination, which can then turn out to be quite confused; finally, wouldn’t a Dalí painting exist only in the brain of each viewer?
Chiasmas, parallelisms, metamorphoses, duplication, morpho-psychologisms constitute for Dalí both spatial and linguistic figures; the hidden analog image causes visual ambiguity and operates on the model of synecdoche: in one figure is embedded another of a different scale.
Neural artist
Dalí has become an enigmatic problem in the history of art after being that of avant-garde and criticism. A global approach to his work reveals obvious lines of force and his project is not entirely “soluble” in surrealism. Heir to Picasso’s “physical psychology” and André Breton’s “real functioning of thought”, Dalí opens a project: that of an exploration by turns intuitive and methodical, critical and playful, of the human brain; but then, what is the primary process of the work in Dalí’s psyche?
Dalí calls “neural images” or “visual hallucinations” the result of the action elicited by the development of an unstable and evolving “model” which causes the brain to undergo an image metamorphosis; this is the Paranoia-Criticism method, the starting point of which is a hallucination.
Galatea aux Sphères (Galatea in the Spheres)
Galatea aux Sphères (Galatea in the Spheres) refers to Greek mythology – Galatea is a nereid, sea nymph – and to Gala, his wife and muse. In 1952, Salvador Dalí represented it as “atomic” following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Inspired by the tragedy of this disaster, Dalí explored at this time a kind of nuclear mysticism, through the representation of spheres in equilibrium aligned according to a controlled perspective.
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