The Salvador Dalí Museum in Figueres, Spain. The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned.

The Salvador Dalí Museumin Figueres, Spain.

The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work. Compiled by the A. Reynolds Morse and Eleanor Morse over a 45-year period, it is celebrated for its 96 oil paintings.

The Salvador Dalí Museum With oils spanning from 1917 through 1970, the collection provides an excellent overview of Dalí's major themes and symbols. Characterized by its diversity, it includes the Impressionist and Cubist styles of his early period, abstract work from his transition to Surrealism, the famous surrealist canvases for which he is best known, and examples of his preoccupation with religion and science during his classic period.

The Salvador Dalí MuseumIn addition to the 96 oilpaintings, the collectionincludes over 100 watercolorsand drawings, 1,300 graphics,photographs, sculptures andobjects d'art, and an

extensivearchival library. Periodic rotations of thecollection and specialexhibitions allow museum

goersto view new work on repeatvisits.

Salvador Dalí Dalí was born in the town ofFigueres, Spain located inland atthe foot of the Pyrenees near theFrench border. The landscape inthis region has been a majorinspiration and influence on all ofDalí’s work. In the summers, theDalí family often retreated to theirresidence in the nearby coastaltown of Cadaqués, where theystayed annually for many years. This self-portrait, painted about 1921 indicates that Dalí's style had become less

impressionistic and subject.

Self Portrait (Figueres) (1921)

Salvador Dalí This view of Cadaqués from the rock terracesabove the Dalí family home was painted during Dalí’s Second year at the San Fernando Academy ofFine Arts. He chooses a powerful composition fromhis homeland, presenting its tranquility in historicform. The style of the Post Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is evident in theGeometric treatment of the landscape and village.The design of the trees – sinuous, rhythmic, andechoing the shape of the balloon in the sky -contrasts with the blocky houses in the distance.

If the seven young women in the foregroundappear similar to one another, it is because Dalí usedhis sister, Ana María (1908-1990), as the model forall of them. Ana María was Dalí’s only sibling and washis primary model for his paintings in the early yearsuntil the artist met Gala, his future wife, in 1929.

Portrait of My Sister (1923) , fragment

Salvador Dalí Several ambiguous elements in this painting make itfeel more like a dream then reality. First, judging bythe scale of the building next to the girl, she appearsto be far too large for the landscape. She is posedwith her windswept, diaphanous dress clinging to herfigure provocatively. In addition while the landscape ispainted in a fairly realistic manner, the curves of thegirl’s body are highly exaggerated and accentuated.Finally, the girl is viewed from behind, creating asense of mystery. By hiding the face, Dalí denies theviewer any psychological details that the girl’s facewould provide. This girl originated in childhood fantasies about afictional Russian girl whom he nicknamed “Galuchka.”He saw this girl in one of the images in an opticaltheater/stereoscopic box in the house of his childhoodteacher, Señor Trayter. The artist wrote in hisautobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí thatthese images “were to stir me most deeply, for therest of his life”. She became his dream girl onto whomhe could project all of his desires.

Girl with Curls (1926)

Gala Nude Seen from Behind. 1960.

Salvador Dalí and GalaBesides that Gala became the wife of the Dalí, it throughout all life remained it muse.

Galatea of the Spheres.1952

Salvador Dali. The Madonna of Port Lligat. 1950

The Salvador Dalí Museum

Three-dimensional works Dalí experiments with holography and three dimensional space.

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Salvador Dali. Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas.1956