Word: daly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview which I gave to TIME concerning my Crucifixion has not been objectively expressed. This fact, together with the completely biased version of the facts, gives to the article "Dali Makes Met" [Jan. 24] a completely erroneous interpretation...The interest in my pictorial work has continuously increased since I commenced my religious subjects. My first important religious painting, The Madonna of Port-Lligat, which was exhibited in 1947, was very highly praised. A subsequent one, The Christ of St. John of the Cross, was acquired by the Glasgow Art Gallery and has created a tremendous interest...I consider...
Last week the critics were taken up short. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had acquired one of Dali's latest paintings for its permanent collection. Critical eyebrows shot even higher at the name of the donor: wealthy Chester Dale, famed for his impressionist and modern French paintings and an outstanding connoisseur...
Collector Dale says he visited Dali's latest show with "no idea of buying a Dali," found himself "bowled over" by an impressive, 6-ft.-tall painting of the Crucifixion. Says Dale: "I can't explain it except in one way-when it hits me, it hits me hard. It is a very honest picture, very great." Dale decided to buy it, reportedly paid about...
...Dali originally entitled the work Corpus hipercubus (Hypercubic Body), explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted...
...changed the title of Corpus hipercubus to The Crucifixion because "it is easier to understand." As it put its new Dali on public view, the Met rated the work "an outstanding modern religious painting, very serious, with little surrealistic eccentricities." Said Dali, "Juan Gris created beautiful cubism and Picasso continued it. Now myself has created one complete hypercubist painting...