APPIRATION OF FACE AND FRUIT BOWL (final) Flashcards
(20 cards)
Artist
Dali
date
1938
What is the double image
frace turns into fruit bowl
who are dali’s painting skills attributed to
the influence of old masters
hyper-realist style
particulary early flemish and venetian painting (verism)
also influenced by the minute and meticulous style of the 19th C Academician Jean-Louis Meissonier
dali nationality
Spanish
Catalan region of Spain
catalonian beaches often appear in his work
Dominating form of composition?
brown skinned pers in fruit bowl that looks like a wine glass
optical illusion- also looks like a face (pears suggest wavy hair) (dish bowl becomes forehead) (stem of dish is bridge of the nose)
WHAT FORMS THE EYES OF THE FACE
formed by background objects on the sand
right eye is a vase
left eye is a cherub
where does the other face appear
in the distance, male nude figure
two dogs play near it
DESCRIPTION OF DOG
ONE OF SMALL DOGS PLAYING ECHO BIG ILLUSSIONARY DOG
the dog’s head formed by a hill, its eye by a rock arch
DESCRIPTION OF ROPE
hyper realistic and accurate mastery of realism
WHY DOES HE USE TROMPE L’OIEL
to create a trick of the eye effect to make dream world seem more tangible (UNSETTLING)
How does he achieve realism
BRUSH
fine sable brushes
jeweller’s glass for close work
OIL PAINT
how did dali describe his paintings
Dalí described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs”
how is this work influenced by freud
-dali influenced by writings of freud
-met him in 1938 in London
-influenced by the founder of surrealisms writings of freud (Brenton)
DREAMS
-1900 interpretation of dreams
-freud believed dreams are coded messages from the subconscious
-dali interested by what could be revealed by their dreams
what did freud publish on dreams
*He published his groundbreaking Interpretation of Dreams in 1900
dali and surrealism context
-became involved in surrealism when he went to paris
-in early surrealist days produced many canvas’s on dreams set in landscape of Catalonia
-broke from group 1938 due to differences with Adre Brenton
what is dream (oneric) surrealism and how is it shown in this work)
-TWO STRANDS OF SURREALISM (oneric and automatic)
-Aims to create realism to show unsettling things subconscious in dreams reveal (creates liminal space between dream and earthly realm)
WHAT METHOD DID HE USE TO CREATE DOUBLE IMAGES
paranoiac-critical method
involved looking at one thing and trying to see another.
Dalí simulated a state of paranoia - putting himself in a self-induced hallucinatory state - to deliberately misinterpret what he saw and use the results as a basis for painting. He saw this as a way of accessing his unconscious
what was the paranoiac critical method based on
Freud and Lacan were researching the condition of paranoia, which causes sufferers to interpret visual information wrongly
these psycholoanalysts were in direct communication with surrealists
who created double images in surrealism
The double image is something that Dalí introduced into Surrealism
