Widely, and perhaps best, known in French as L’Hirondelle immobile, this small and delicate oil seems to be a previous partial study for a bigger painting, undeservedly much… Read more “L’oreneta immòbil (The motionless swallow) – A smallish great work by S. Dalí”
Category: Pintura Catalana
Michael Archangel trampling The Devil thrice more – (A needed follow-up)
– When seeking for some adequate illustrations of St Michael Archangel for one of my recent posts here, I fully realized the enormous quantity of artworks from… Read more “Michael Archangel trampling The Devil thrice more – (A needed follow-up)”
A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech
–A last confidence about impotence and psychological castration– Salvador Dalí’s father was a monster. Salvador Dalí i Cusí, a middle-class lawyer and notary in Figueres (a Catalan… Read more “A detailed ‘Soft Monster in Angelic Landscape’ (Monstre Tou en Paisatge Angèlic), by Salvador Dalí i Domènech”
Several Magdalenes diversely similar
Selected paintings from the High Renaissance and Baroque featuring a (non-) penitent Mariam of Magdala – My younger sister, Ari, was not a Christian, but a shamanistic animist.… Read more “Several Magdalenes diversely similar”
‘Trilogy of Love’ – Tarot inspired lithographs by Salvador Dalí (or whoever)
Salvador Dalí made (or possibly only authorized) this suite of lithographs in 1976, directly inspired in three of the tarot cards, all from the major arcana: Temperance… Read more “‘Trilogy of Love’ – Tarot inspired lithographs by Salvador Dalí (or whoever)”
The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (I)
Introduction – 20th century Temptations by Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst The plights of Saint Anthony the Great (or Anthony of Egypt or Anthony Abbot) during his… Read more “The Many Temptations of St. Anthony the Great (I)”
‘Hommage à Terpsichore’, after Salvador Dalí – Faceless beauty
I had never liked Salvador Dalí as a person, and moreover, I learned to deeply dislike him when I knew of his cruelty with animals and some other nasty facets of his character and behaviour. Maybe he had mental issues or maybe not, but anyway I could not ever forgive some things he did (and I’m not at all referring to his eccentricities when treating others or his weird, exhibitionist, half-faked pose in his public life; that is just a trifle, and of course, his legitimate choice and freedom). It also disgusted me the continued support he gave to Franco’s dictatorship in Spain and all the personal flattering he displayed toward the dictator… However, I admire his art works without any reserve: paintings, drawings, designs and all sort of illustrations, and also -perhaps most of all- the sculptures based on his earlier pictorial icons that he allowed and, in some…
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Un mag de la llum i dels colors – A wizard of light and colours : Joaquim Mir
[Catalan & English versions] Joaquim Mir (1873 – 1940) Joaquim Mir i Trinxet fou un pintor post-impressionista Català de la mateixa alçària que Sisley o Monet o… Read more “Un mag de la llum i dels colors – A wizard of light and colours : Joaquim Mir”