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...artists now living, Salvador Dali may be the best known. His candelabra-style mustache stands as a public symbol of Bohemian independence. His most famous canvas, which he called The Persistence of Memory and which everyone else remembers as The Limp Watches, has been part of popular imagery since 1932. But is Dali serious? The answer...
...understands physics. This simple fact is at least as difficult to conceive as the fact that Dali thoroughly masters painting. Blessed with an astounding facility with paint, he keeps stretching it; blessed with a coolly scientific intelligence, he stretches that, too. "In the surrealist period," he says, "I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world-the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. I succeeded in doing it. Today the exterior world-that of physics -has transcended the one of psychology...
...huge Madonna, the centerpiece of Dali's new exhibition at Manhattan's Carstairs Gallery, improbably combines a memory of Raphael with a near photographic blowup of an ear. The dots of the photographic screen are like both atomic particles and little voids riddling the picture; they ripple and fade like a cloud of unknowing before the Renaissance image. A piece of paper floating on edge and a cherry hung on a string, painted to fool the eye, emphasize the strangeness of the rest. Dali's title for this weird and serious effort: Quasi-grey picture which, closely...
Disassociation & Dream. Fact is, Velásquez is suddenly much in the modern air. Last week Salvador Dali turned up in New York with a new painting called Velásquez painting the Infanta with the lights and shadows of his proper glory. The Infanta is only shadowily visible through the darkly luminous galleries of the Prado. Explains Dali, sighting along the points of his caliper-style mustache: "The new was and is through Velásquez. Abstract expressionism is in the details of Velásquez, in the brush strokes...
Even abstract expressionists themselves have been rediscovering Velásquez. Perhaps the cold, snowy veil that abstraction has cast over almost the whole landscape of art has proved too chill, and they felt the need for a thaw, for seeing earth again. Both Dali and Picasso were trying to bring Velásquez's illusion-making genius into a new, dreamlike focus, distorting the original (as dreams do) by a breaking-up and jumbling-together process. Dali calls this "disassociation." Says Dali: "The impressionists made disassociation of light. The cubists made disassociation of forms. The surrealists made disassociation...