It was 1930, and Dalì was only 26 years old. The landscapes of that area will often be protagonists in his artistic production. To facilitate the process of this liberation, artists used special practices such as painting in altered psycho-physical conditions, or stratagems like the Cadav re Exquis ( Exquisite Corpse), according to which a group of artists were able to compose a work in a blind collaboration, without knowing what the other was drawing.Īfter Dalí left home, he rented for him and Gala a small fishing cabin in Port Lligat, on the Mediterranean coast near the border between Spain and France. Surrealism’s secret mission was to let the unconscious contents be expressed without filters or barriers, freeing the contents which are usually filtered by consciousness and giving them a formal dignity. Dadaism was destructive towards any form of art and advocated the refusal of reason, while Surrealism carried out an escape from reality, in favour of the new human dimension recently discovered by Sigmund Freud’s studies: the unconscious. In some respects, together with Dadaism it was an alternative response to World War I and the horror in realizing what mankind was able to do.
Surrealism was a huge bomb exploded in Europe within the avant-garde years in the beginning of the twentieth century, and it will represent the most enduring expression. Shadows Haunted Me Salvador Dalí, Sometimes I Spit with Pleasure on the Portrait of my Mother (The Sacred Heart), 1929
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