Saturday, October 13, 2012

New Dali exhibit opens at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg - posted by Florida Fine Art Blog

Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail).  AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum


New Dali exhibit opens at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg
By: Tamara Lush, AP

ST. PETERSBURG (AP).- In the mid-1920s, a young Salvador Dali was searching for his style. 

He painted a startlingly lifelike basket of bread in a typical Renaissance form. He dabbled in cubism and painted in abstract black, white and gray. He also painted a scene in 1925 that he called "Desnudo en el Agua" (Nude in the Water), which gives an inkling of the surrealist genius to come.
 
The painting is a close-up of a woman's shapely buttocks, and the unique perspective reveals that Dali was looking at subjects and paintings in a whole new way as a young artist.
 
"He's not doing an academic perspective," wryly notes Hank Hine, the director of the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.

That subtly erotic work, along with 11 others, is on display at the Florida museum until March 31, 2013 in a show called "The Royal Inheritance: Dalí Works From the Spanish National Collection." The paintings, which span from 1918 to 1983, have never before been exhibited the United States.
 
The works are on loan from the National Collection of Modern Art in Spain.


This AP article is a nice overview of the exhibition, the St. Petersburg Museum and the origins of the collection. The article states that since its opening, the Museum has welcomed an average of 1,000 people a day.  That is a testament as much to the beautifully designed Museum building (architect Yann Weymouth) as to the Dali collection itself.  GL

Salvador Dali, Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attacking a Cello (detail). AP Photo/Salvador Dali Museum.

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