Salvador dali gala abe lincoln painting
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Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, 1976 by Salvador Dali
Dali's title - Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln (Homage to Rothko) - provides a perfect description of this painting. Standing close, we see Gala with her back turned to us, looking toward the rising Mediterranean sun. That glowing sun doubles as an image of Christ, seen from above, ascending. In this way, Gala directs our attention heavenwards and reminds us of the fleeting nature of beauty. But when we stand further back, twenty meters, as the title prescribes, we can see that the head of Abraham Lincoln fills the entire canvas.
This painting was inspired by a Scientific American article Dali read about visual perception which investigated the minimum number of pixels needed to describe a unique human face. Dali was challenged by that question and set about making this portrait of Lincoln using 121 pixels. In his canvas, he pushes this concept of perception and external sight. This double image painting provides a meditation on the dual nature of things. In addition to the theme of sight and insight, the work alludes to themes of life and death and to Dali's Spanish and American
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Salvador Dali, Lincoln in Dalivision
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
Spanish
Medium Specific
Platinum bas relief
Publisher
Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, NY
Classification
Sculpture: Metal
Dimensions
41 1/4 x 32 1/4 x 1/2 in. (104.8 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm)
Accession Number
2008.35.28.100
Credit
Gift of Dr. Daniel L. and Joanne Azarnoff
Memo / Artist Statement
This bas relief is based on the painting Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea which at Twenty Metres Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln – Homage to Rothko (second version) that was painted in 1976.
Biography
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. His first exhibition of his paintings was in 1919, and in 1921 he attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid until he was expelled in 1926.
Dalí’s early works reflect the artistic style of neo-classical cubism that was greatly influenced by Pablo Picasso but by 1927 his work was characterized as part of the Surrealist Movement which he officially joined in 1929. Dalí later became estranged with Andre Breton, considered to be the founder of the Surrealist Movement, and began to distance himself politically from the Movement, but his work has continued to b
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