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...mythomaniac autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, he took pains to spin out a fiction of his early originality. He wanted people to think he'd been found like Moses in the bulrushes, a miracle child: Salvador, Saviour. In part this did correspond to the truth. As Ian Gibson's fascinating catalog essay on Dali's early life makes clear, little Salvador was a horribly spoiled brat. Cosseted, deferred to, aware that a tantrum could get him anything he wanted, he grew up with serious delusions of creative omnipotence -- which, as time went by, coexisted with equally serious problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...what of Dali's own clockwork? What wound him up? This is the theme of "Salvador Dali: The Early Years," an exhibition opening this week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curators, Ana Beristain and Dawn Ades, have brought together a mass of Dali's juvenilia, starting at age 12; the show ends in 1929, with Dali in Paris, moving through storms of controversy, the 25-year-old darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Surrealism was fascinated by childhood, viewing it as the primal forest of the imagination -- the place where all the id's most succulent and aggressive life-forms ran rampant, before civilization paved them over. Hence you could suppose that Dali's own childhood would be rich in suggestion about his mature work. And so it was, in a way; but not the way he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...fledgling Dali believed he could do anything -- including what other artists had done, which became "Dalinian" by virtue of being redone by him. The exhibition shows him running through the styles, with slowly increasing calculation, trying them on for fit. He was a 15-year-old Impressionist and then a 16-year-old Symbolist, painting his grandmother sewing in a foggy all-blue room; this veiled figure is the first of the Sibylline crones who would keep turning up in his later work. He does Fauve blotches -- Mediterranean with measles, after Matisse and Derain -- and combines them with elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...paints himself as a phosphorescent dandy with a giant hat, and his father as a massive totem against the overheated landscape of Cadaques. This, one realizes, is the first painting by Dali that actually means something, that opens the Pandora's box of obsession of his later, Surrealist work. What it means is parricide. He sees his father as a dark colossus, a parody of the figures of patriarchy that bulked so large in Catalan folklore. Much of his work thereafter would be devoted to dragging the paternal giant from his pedestal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Salvador Dali: Baby Dali | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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