Word: cellini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Literary oddities will characterize the new store, whose shelves will include works on everything from glass blowing to an autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini...
Some of Siqueiros' friends-among them Diego Rivera-wonder how long he can stick to his resolution. It was Rivera who first called Siqueiros the modern Benvenuto Cellini. "When there was a revolution in Mexico," says Rivera, "Siqueiros was in tune with the times. But now the times are soft, and he has been slow in growing soft with them. He has not been able to change with the moods of his countrymen...
Dali had drawn 40 illustrations, and they were enough to make Cellini do a double roll in his grave. For example, Dali had decided to picture an incident when Cellini was five, and saw a lizard among the hot coals in the fireplace. The incident was memorable to Cellini, because his father "gave me a great box on the ears-and spoke as follows: 'My dear little boy, I am not striking you for any wrong that you have done, but only to make you remember that the lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...
...Cellini's art had been well-tailored for a discerning market and highly polished enough to reflect the spirit of the Renaissance. Dali's purely subjective and surprisingly slapdash illustrations...