Salvador Dalí - Port Lligat

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.

Compared to Dalí's paintings, this work stands out primarily for its distinctive minimalism. Indeed, instead of the exaggerated hyperrealist plasticity, here we find a composition resolved with the elegance of a few graphic lines. The bas-relief is therefore particularly interesting in demonstrating how the master of Surrealism was capable of creating works of great evocative impact even with limited formal means at his disposal. Despite the composition's synthetic nature, the landscape, surreal in its cold objectivity, has great expressive potential, and its metaphysical nature is further enhanced by the silver plate.

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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