Monique Ann Marquez DesignsMonique Ann Marquez Designs

Salvador Dalí
(1904 - 1989)

Portrait of Picasso

A neo-classical portrait full of the alienating symbolism that is so typical of Dali.

Dimensions: height approx. 13.5 cm
Color: Multicolour
Material: Polyresin (handmade and handpainted)

This figure is a very successful replica from the museum collection, created by the artists of the Parastone Ateliers.

Shocked durAfter the atomic bomb was dropped, Dalí took the mystical path after the Second World War. He combined this with a fanatical interest in classical painting. A year after painting Picasso's portrait, in "Fifty Magical Secrets" he describes how amazed he was that although nuclear fission can be achieved, "no one knows what the mysterious liquid into which the... Brothers Van Eyck or Vermeer from Delft dipped their brushes.” Although the portrait of Picasso is still full of the symbolism typical of Dalí, it also has stylistically neoclassical characteristics. Above the weak torso, the portrait emerges, composed of alienated elements in a manner that is strongly reminiscent of the 17th century portraits of Archimboldo. remember century. In 1948, after a very fruitful eight-year stay in the United States, Dalí decided to return to Europe to devote himself to “nuclear mysticism”, with as his expert motto the insight that the “means of expression of painting once and for all and with the greatest perfection and influence were developed during the Renaissance and that the decadence of modern painting finds its origins in the skepticism and lack of faith resulting from mechanistic materialism.”
Monique Ann Marquez DesignsMonique Ann Marquez DesignsMonique Ann Marquez DesignsMonique Ann Marquez Designs
International buyers from NON-EU COUNTRIES:
Please check with your country's customs office to determine whether there are additional costs, e.g. B. Import duties apply. These are not included in the item price.
Shocked durAfter the atomic bomb was dropped, Dalí took the mystical path after the Second World War. He combined this with a fanatical interest in classical painting. A year after painting Picasso's portrait, in "Fifty Magical Secrets" he describes how amazed he was that although nuclear fission can be achieved, "no one knows what the mysterious liquid into which the... Brothers Van Eyck or Vermeer from Delft dipped their brushes.” Although the portrait of Picasso is still full of the symbolism typical of Dalí, it also has stylistically neoclassical characteristics. Above the weak torso, the portrait emerges, composed of alienated elements in a manner that is strongly reminiscent of the 17th century portraits of Archimboldo. remember century. In 1948, after a very fruitful eight-year stay