at Intelligenta
Salvador Dalí
(1904 - 1989)
*the swan - 1939*
Design for the ballet Mad Tristan, written by Dalí,
inspired by the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
This figure is a very successful replica from the museum collection, created by the artists of the Parastone Ateliers.
Dalí sublimated his life in his painting. Relying on great professional skills, accumulated through the execution of various experiments in the field of painting, he took surrealism to unique heights in an inimitable, idiosyncratic way. Basically, he photographed associatively what was happening inside his head: inspired by the new knowledge of psychology at the time, he tried to capture his subconscious in images and to depict his dreams in all their impenetrable symbolism. For this purpose he developed his famous paranoid-critical method. For us, as one-dimensional mortals, only the paintings and other forms of artistic expression remain as fascinating witnesses to an incredibly intense and busy life. Perhaps their appeal lies not only in the fact that they allow us a look into Dalí's subconscious, but also in the fact that they are a mirror of our own souls.