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After Salvador Dali, 'Melting clock' - Bronze Sculpture
This striking bronze sculpture, inspired by the iconic style of Salvador Dali, is an arresting visual representation of the surrealist movement. The piece, adorned with a rich red patina, showcases Dali's fascination with the fluidity of time and the distortions of reality.
The signature of the legendary artist, Salvador Dali, is prominently featured on the right side of the sculpture's base, affirming its authenticity and connection to the renowned master of surrealism.
The sculpture itself is a visual enigma, as it presents a melting clock that seems to defy the laws of physics. Dali's fascination with the concept of time is brought to life through the artwork's flowing, distorted form. The red patina not only adds a touch of drama but also enhances the illusion of time's malleability.
In overall good condition, this Dali-inspired bronze sculpture serves as a captivating homage to one of the most influential and imaginative artists of the 20th century. It invites viewers to contemplate the fluidity of time and the dreamlike qualities of reality, much like the works of Salvador Dali himself.
Details:
Artist: Dali(after)
Title: DALI INSPIRED RED PATINA MELTING CLOCK BRONZE
Type:Bronze sculpture
Size (length, width and height): Height 13'' x Width 11'' Approximate Weight: 14 LBS.
Signature: Right side of the base, Salvador Dali
Condition: Overall good condition
Provenance: Private Collection, OG Collections
About the Artist:
Salvador Dalí, in full Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, (born May 11, 1904, Figueras, Spain—died January 23, 1989, Figueras), Spanish Surrealist painter and printmaker, influential for his explorations of subconscious imagery.
As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical facility as a painter. It was not until the late 1920s, however, that two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style: his discovery of Sigmund Freud’s writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery and his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish the “greater reality” of the human subconscious over reason. To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dalí began to induce hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical.”
Once Dalí hit on that method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the paintings which made him the world’s best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dreamworld in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion. Dalí portrayed those objects in meticulous, almost painfully realistic detail and usually placed them within bleak sunlit landscapes that were reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland. Perhaps the most famous of those enigmatic images is The Persistence of Memory (1931), in which limp melting watches rest in an eerily calm landscape. With the Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí made two Surrealistic films—Un Chien andalou (1929; An Andalusian Dog) and L’Âge d’or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images.
In the late 1930s Dalí switched to painting in a more-academic style under the influence of the Renaissance painter Raphael. His ambivalent political views during the rise of fascism alienated his Surrealist colleagues, and he was eventually expelled from the group. Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, interiors of fashionable shops, and jewelry as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955. In the period from 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, though he continued to explore erotic subjects, to represent childhood memories, and to use themes centring on his wife, Gala. Notwithstanding their technical accomplishments, those later paintings are not as highly regarded as the artist’s earlier works. The most interesting and revealing of Dalí’s books is The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942).
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