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Whilst the world is on fire Dali paints the birth of the new human.
Frightened, seeking the protection of its mother, the child sees a man
struggling to escape a plastic egg of which the continents drip down.
Here stands the new symbol of a new order, a new beginning for a new
and perfect world. The painting is a plea for a radical liberation from
the oppressive entwinement from the past. In the opening sentences of
his manifest which was published some years before Dal’ says, "When
during the history of its culture a people feel the need to cut the
ties with which it is bound to the logical systems of the past in order
to obtain an independent mythology - a mythology which perfectly fits
its essence and its total expression of their biological reality and is
recognised by the higher elite- then public opinion demands from the
pragmatic society, considering its own systematic, that the motives for
such a split is enlightened with traditional and worn out formulas."
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK: In the opening sentences of his manifest
which was published some years before Dali says, "When during the
history of its culture a people feel the need to cut the ties with
which it is bound to the logical systems of the past in order to obtain
an independent mythology - a mythology which perfectly fits its essence
and its total expression of their biological reality and is recognized
by the higher elite- then public opinion demands from the pragmatic
society, considering its own systematic, that the motives for such a
split is enlightened with traditional and worn out formulas."
ABOUT THE ART PERIOD: Dali
sublimated his life in his art of painting. Relying on great
craftsmanship, acquired in all sorts of art experiments, he lifted
surrealism, in an inimitable self-willed manner, to exceptional
heights. He photographed, as it were, associatively what was enacted in
his mind. Incited by, at the time, new psychological insights he tried
to fix his subconscious with images, and to visualize his dreams in all
their inscrutable symbolism. It was for this purpose that he developed
his famous "paranoid-critical" method. To us, one dimensional mortal
souls, only the paintings and other expressions remain as fascinating
witnesses to a literally unbelievably intense and active life. Perhaps
we are so drawn to them because not only do they allow us to have a
look inside Dali’s subconscious, but they also are a mirror reflecting
our own souls. |
