Salvador Dalí - Spring

Surrealist aesthetics emerged around the 1920s and encompassed all fields of artistic research. Specifically, in the visual arts, Surrealism sought to explore the human subconscious and translate it into artwork through a mechanical writing process based on dream analysis. Consequently, Surrealist artworks propose the representation of a dreamlike dimension, completely dissociated from reality. However, this representation often relies on a hyperrealistic formal rendering, precisely to paradoxically accentuate the illusory and ambiguous nature of the surreal dimension.

The bas-relief is very similar to Dalí's easel work. Indeed, the exaltation of the subject's plastic qualities and the inflated volumetric rendering in a narrow space correspond to the exaggerated, hyper-realistic plasticity of his paintings. The setting, a desolate land stretching as far as the eye can see, is also typical: the scene unfolds as if on a stage, a compositional element typical of the Catalan artist. The anti-naturalistic deformations are also essential, such as the violently forced perspective that makes us see the solitary, trembling shadow in the background far away (another Dalí motif). But the allegorical figure in the foreground also plays a leading role in subverting the rules of space and time. His shadow, cast on the ground, does not correspond to a natural light effect and takes the form of a twisted shrub. It is evident how, in the quotationism that characterizes Dalí's surreal art, in this case the artist has made an allusion to the myth of Daphne, in the enigmatic overlapping between the female figure and the tree.

Salvador Dalí (Figueres 1904-1989). A major representative of historical Surrealism, he was a photographer, writer, and filmmaker (his collaboration with Luis Buñuel is famous) as well as a painter. His works are based on the principles of psychoanalytic associationism, following the teachings of André Breton. His style is characterized by a turgid, harsh hyperrealism, in which his subjects display an obsessive attention to detail. His compositions are a mix of free associations, biomorphic organisms, and cultural references.

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