Word: hipercubus
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...Corpus Hipercubus...
...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 the [Met's] acquisition now of my Crucifixion as being timely. My pictorial conception of Corpus hipercubus is a completely new creative idea which is in direct contrast to the current abstract academism...
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...
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