SALVADOR DALI
Salvador
Dali (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) Catalan:
Spanish, was a prominent Spanish
surrealist born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed ind ulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions som
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well.
EXAMPLES OF HIS FILM WORK:
Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 French silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.Un Chien Andalou has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events or characters changing very much. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.In 1941, Dalí drafted a film scenario for Jean Gabin called Moontide. In 1942, he published his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. He wrote catalogs for his exhibitions, such as that at the Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1943. Therein he attacked some often-used surrealist techniques by proclaiming, "Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system. ... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college". This film with dreamlike images is what Dali is known for in the independent film world.
Spellbound. 1945. USA. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock:
Walt Disney's six-minute animation, Destino, made a year later, for which he created the storyboard. Finally released in 2003, it was nominated for an Academy Award. In the film, Dali's artworks interact with Disney's character animation.
"His surrealist works inspire people to explore the real world and the true self, and pay attention to every single detail of life," Cui added. When he was young, Dali was intensely interested in film. He was part of the era where silent films were being viewed and drawing on the medium of film became popular.
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Un Chien Andalou (French pronunciation: An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 French silent surrealist short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.Un Chien Andalou has no plot in the conventional sense of the word. The chronology of the film is disjointed, jumping from the initial "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events or characters changing very much. It uses dream logic in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes.In 1941, Dalí drafted a film scenario for Jean Gabin called Moontide. In 1942, he published his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí. He wrote catalogs for his exhibitions, such as that at the Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1943. Therein he attacked some often-used surrealist techniques by proclaiming, "Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system. ... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college". This film with dreamlike images is what Dali is known for in the independent film world.
Spellbound. 1945. USA. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock:
In 1945, Salvador Dalí’s movie agent called him up and ordered a nightmare.
The request came at the behest of director Alfred Hitchcock, busy planning the dream sequence for his psychoanalytic thriller Spellbound (1945). Although Dalí had officially broken with the Surrealists a few years earlier, his fantastical paintings—replete with melting clocks, deep shadows, and long vistas—ensured his continuing status as an American celebrity. But Hitchcock didn’t hire him for the publicity value. “I wanted Dalí because of the architectural sharpness of his work,” the filmmaker explained in a 1962 interview. Rather than the traditional, blurred Hollywood dream sequence, Hitchcock “wanted to convey the dream with great visual sharpness and clarity, sharper than the film itself.”
Walt Disney's six-minute animation, Destino, made a year later, for which he created the storyboard. Finally released in 2003, it was nominated for an Academy Award. In the film, Dali's artworks interact with Disney's character animation.
"His surrealist works inspire people to explore the real world and the true self, and pay attention to every single detail of life," Cui added. When he was young, Dali was intensely interested in film. He was part of the era where silent films were being viewed and drawing on the medium of film became popular.
L'Age d'Or:
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