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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

1965 Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane


1965 Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14985 By Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer

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The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/05/tentacle-spellbound-by-salvador-dali-by.html http://tinyurl.com/25phydh

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078
http://tinyurl.com/c67b3f

Night in a Surreal Forest is news footage of a fundraiser held by Salvador and Gala Dali on September 2, 1941 for the benefit of exiled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUciW7qpifs

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19410902 Dali Night in a Surreal Forest

Happy Birthday Salvador Dali

Night in a Surreal Forest is news footage of a fundraiser held by Salvador and Gala Dali on September 2, 1941 for the benefit of exiled artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUciW7qpifs

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009


Happy Birthday Salvador Dali

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009

Last month I enjoyed a bit of respite from Maryland’s winter by visiting Florida. Finding myself within reasonable driving distance of St. Petersburg, I jumped at the chance to visit the Salvador Dali Museum.

Located on the waterfront in Barboro Harbor, it is the “largest collection of Dali’s work outside of Spain,” according to Peggy McKendry, the assistant to the director of the museum.

The museum, which opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982, is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works.

This collection began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942. Collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.

[…]

In recent years, I have visited art museums – from San Diego, Salt Lake City, Anchorage, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore – and I found the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg to be one of the friendliest exhibitions I have ever seen.

Everyone from Ms. McKendry, to the extremely knowledgeable docents, and even the museum guards went out of their way to make sure you knew that the museum was there to serve, entertain, and educate.

Such accessibility is critical if you are to have a meaningful experience exploring 20th century contemporary art – especially the work of Salvador Dali.

[…]

While I was doing some additional research on Dali, after I visited the museum, I had the great fortune to talk with Dan Twyman, the senior art consultant for the “Salvador Dali Society,” in Redondo Beach, CA, the owner of the website, http://www.salvadordaliexperts.com/ and a volunteer expert for the website http://www.allexperts.com/ in the fine art category.

[…]

Read the entire column here: Spellbound by Salvador Dali
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoff

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/de6zcn

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/03/tentacle-spellbound-by-salvador-dali-by.html

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078
http://tinyurl.com/c67b3f

http://tinyurl.com/d9zrg3

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Artists%20Dali-Salvador



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Thursday, March 26, 2009

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff

The Tentacle: Spellbound by Salvador Dali by Kevin E. Dayhoff March 25, 2009

Last month I enjoyed a bit of respite from Maryland’s winter by visiting Florida. Finding myself within reasonable driving distance of St. Petersburg, I jumped at the chance to visit the Salvador Dali Museum.

Located on the waterfront in Barboro Harbor, it is the “largest collection of Dali’s work outside of Spain,” according to Peggy McKendry, the assistant to the director of the museum.

The museum, which opened in a renovated marine warehouse March 7, 1982, is the home of 2,140 pieces of Salvador Dali’s art, including 96 oil paintings and eight huge master works.

This collection began in Cleveland, OH, in 1942. Collecting Dali’s art was the lifelong passion of industrialist A. Reynolds Morse, and his wife Eleanor Reese Morse.

[…]

In recent years, I have visited art museums – from San Diego, Salt Lake City, Anchorage, Boston, Washington, and Baltimore – and I found the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg to be one of the friendliest exhibitions I have ever seen.

Everyone from Ms. McKendry, to the extremely knowledgeable docents, and even the museum guards went out of their way to make sure you knew that the museum was there to serve, entertain, and educate.

Such accessibility is critical if you are to have a meaningful experience exploring 20th century contemporary art – especially the work of Salvador Dali.

[…]

While I was doing some additional research on Dali, after I visited the museum, I had the great fortune to talk with Dan Twyman, the senior art consultant for the “Salvador Dali Society,” in Redondo Beach, CA, the owner of the website, www.salvadordaliexperts.com and a volunteer expert for the website http://www.allexperts.com/ in the fine art category.

[…]

Read the entire column here: Spellbound by Salvador Dali
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
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Photo credit: 1965 Salvador Dali with ocelot and cane
Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14985
By Roger Higgins, World Telegram staff photographer

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Dali: “Night in a Surreal Forest”


Dali: “Night in a Surreal Forest”

“Night in a Surreal Forest” is news footage of a fundraiser held by Salvador and Gala Dali on September 2, 1941 for the benefit of exiled artists.
19410902 Dali Night in a Surreal Forest



19410902 Dali Night in a Surreal Forest
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

This week in The Tentacle


This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Spellbound by Salvador Dali
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Last month I enjoyed a bit of respite from Maryland’s winter by visiting Florida. Finding myself within reasonable driving distance of St. Petersburg, I jumped at the chance to visit the Salvador Dali Museum.

Improving Recycling
Michael Kurtianyk
We can and should do a better job of recycling here in Frederick County. Recycling means separating and collecting materials for processing and remanufacturing into new products, and the use of the products to complete this cycle.

Prostitutes and Algebra
Tom McLaughlin
Batam Island, Indonesia. – The Queens, a bar, restaurant and prostitute hangout along the waterfront of Water City, Batam Island, services the western male community. All have seen better days.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Six Years and Counting
Roy Meachum
On March 18, the gap between St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's days, New Orleans keeps on partying, defying the church calendar to celebrate three days off from Lent. Green beer flows into red wine.

When a Tax Cut Isn’t
Farrell Keough
What is truth in politics? Is it something black and white; or are there varying degrees of gradation? Obviously it is the latter. Hence the need to research and understand what is stated versus what the realities behind the action are.

Monday, March 23, 2009
As the Worm Turns
Steven R. Berryman
Last week marked a watershed in the recent history of our newly transforming “Obamanation.” The anecdotal evidence was everywhere, although highly disparate, that what had once been hope, born of its own sake, was being replaced by a more healthy skepticism.

Friday, March 20, 2009
Jennifer's Campaign Targets
Roy Meachum
By reading her sycophantic newspaper columnists, it's easy to see the shape of Jennifer Dougherty's current campaign for mayor; there were three others. Only one run for City Hall succeeded.

The Assault on Our Basic Rights
Joe Charlebois
Whether one believes in a higher being or not, our founders did. Those who finesse the issue that they may or may have not been Christians obfuscate the point. They believed in a higher being. They more importantly believed that all rights that were bestowed upon man were given by that higher being, God.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Jennifer Again?
Patricia A. Kelly
I can’t believe she’s back – yet again. She says she’s running because she loves Frederick. A lot of us love Frederick, and we love it a lot more when she is not mayor.

Imitating a Junta…
Tony Soltero
Back when I was a child, my parents once took a long, ambitious vacation to South America. When they got home they brought back countless little treasures from the countries they visited, an album's worth of beautiful photographs, and plenty of gripping stories to share. My brothers and I couldn't get enough of them.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Think Globally, Bank Locally
Kevin E. Dayhoff
If you are banking with any of the ginormous intergalactic financial institutions that are at the center of the current financial crisis, then you are part of the problem.

Budget Cuts Affecting Local Arts Scene
Michael Kurtianyk
If current legislation is passed by the General Assembly, funding to the Maryland State Arts Council would decrease from $16.6 million to $10.6 million. This is on top of the 14 percent cut last year, used to balance the budget.

A $40 Million Ruse
Tom McLaughlin
Batam Island, Indonesia – The islands were calling me and with rhythms of music from South Pacific flowing in my mind, I elected to visit a couple of them about an hour boat ride off the coast of Singapore.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Pushkin's Winter of Discontent
Roy Meachum
Mother Nature and government frequently disagree. Washington told us clocks must be turned back February's last weekend. A sure sign of Spring? The season doesn't begin until three weeks later.

Exhibiting America’s Traits
Nick Diaz
There was a time when one, in the world of machines, could hardly hear two dirtier words than “Planned Obsolescence.” The very idea that a complex mechanical object should have a deliberately abbreviated life expectancy was nothing less than a kind of mortal sin against proper engineering.

Monday, March 16, 2009
General Assembly Journal 2009 – Volume 8
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Granting Personhood! Yes, I know what the editor is saying. What a terrible example of poor grammar in an opening. Unfortunately, I don’t make this stuff up, I just write about it!

Where’s the “Ownership,” Mr. President?
Steven R. Berryman
During the election cycle of 2008 it became the standard rhetoric for candidate Barack Obama and his wife to distance themselves from the elements of what it meant to “be American.”

20090325 This week in The Tentacle

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

The Tentacle: notes on Spellbound by Salvador Dali


Spellbound by Salvador Dali - The Persistence of Memory (1931)

March 25, 2009

Mentioned in my The Tentacle www.thetentacle.com column: “Spellbound by Salvador Dali," March 25, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3078

When I was putting that column together I had the great fortune to talk with Dan Twyman, the senior art consultant for the “Salvador Dali Society,” in Redondo Beach Ca., the owner of the well-known website, www.salvadordaliexperts.com and a volunteer expert for the website, www.allexperts.com in the fine art category.

He spent a great deal of time on the phone with me and was kind enough to go out of his way to mail me some great materials.

Of course, word limit is a constant challenge with a huge subject like Salvador Dali. I could’ve written an entire column on the work of Dan Twyman…

Anyway – getting back to “The Persistence of Memory”…

The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dalí, 1931 oil on canvas 24 × 33 cm, 9.4 × 13 in Museum of Modern Art, New York City © 2007 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“The painting was first exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Pierre Colle in 1931, where it was purchased by the New York gallerist Julien Levy for $250. In 1933 it was sold to Mrs. Stanley B. Resor, who donated the piece anonymously to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934.” (1)

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=79018

Museum of Modern Art gallery label text:

Dalí: Painting and Film, June 29–September 15, 2008

“Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. The monstrous fleshy creature draped across the paintings center is an approximation of Dalís own face in profile.

“Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dalí painted this work with "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only, he said, "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality." There is, however, a nod to the real: The distant golden cliffs are those on the coast of Catalonia, Dalís home.”

[…]

Museum of Modern Art publication excerpts:

“The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004, originally published 1999

“The Persistence of Memory is aptly named, for the scene is indelibly memorable. Hard objects become inexplicably limp in this bleak and infinite dreamscape, while metal attracts ants like rotting flesh. Mastering what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dali painted with what he called "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only, he said, "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality." It is the classical Surrealist ambition, yet some literal reality is included too: the distant golden cliffs are the coast of Catalonia, Dali's home.”


[…]

19310000 The Persistence of Memory




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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali, Narique Meneses/Rex Features



Update: February 26, 2009

I originally posted this as a picture of “Salvador Dali and Gala in 1964.” I obviously was not thinking when I originally posted it as I do not believe that it is a picture of Gala. This was corrected February 26, 2009… Kevin Dayhoff


http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/dali-hollywood--and-a-surreal-story-1629337.html?action=Popup

19640000 Salvador Dali
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida









The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg

February 19, 2009

A few pictures from my visit to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg on February 19, 2009.

I finally had the opportunity to visit the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida…

It was really exciting. It is the largest collection of Dali’s work outside of Spain. The museum is very viewer friendly and informative. If you go, be sure to be available for all the docent tours. The docents were extremely knowledgeable and really brought Mr. Dali’s work to life.

Dali Museum » About the Museum » History

SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM

Our Present

The Dali Museum is the flagship of cultural tourism on the West Coast of Florida and welcomes over 200,000 visitors each year from around the world. Serving the Florida community, 10,000 students are admitted without charge annually. Our education programs produce study guides and web information for students and teachers. Two film series, lectures and concerts supplement the themes of the exhibitions. The Museum Store - one of the most dynamic in the museum world, with books and educational material as top sellers, reflects and extends the exhibition experience. A new series of small format exhibition catalogs is published to accompany the four new exhibitions mounted each year. The Dali maintains strong partnerships with the community of St. Petersburg, the State of Florida as well as museums and educational institutions globally. As a partner with locally based corporations, the Museum is an engine for economic development in Florida.

The Museum will create a new building to protect its collection and welcome its visitors. It is continually adding to the collection with acquisitions of paintings, drawings and prints. The Museum's extensive archival library is key to the advances in academic research on topics from Dali to Surrealism, to interpretations of contemporary art. Today, the Dali Museum continues to preserve and protect its collection, making it available for the enjoyment and education of all people, with special opportunities for our local community, enhancing the public appreciation of Dali.

For more information:
Dali Museum » About the Museum » History

Museum Directions

Street Address:
Salvador Dalí Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901

Regular Hours:
Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday 9:30-5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am-8pm
Friday 9:30am-6:30pm
Saturday 9:30am- 5:30pm
Sunday 12 noon – 5:30pm

The Museum store remains open 1/2 hour after closing on these days:Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Holiday Hours:
Thursday, November 27, 2008 – Closed
Wednesday, December 24, 9:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 25, 2008 – Closed
Friday and Saturday, December 26-27, 9:30- 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 28 - 12:00-7:00 p.m.
Monday and Tuesday, December 29-30, 9:30- 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 31, 9:30- 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, January 1, 12:00-8:00p.m.


Admission:
General Admission - $17.00
Senior citizens 65+ - $14.50
Teachers with ID/US Police/Military & Fire - $14.50
Students* ages 10+ (18+ with ID) - $12.00
Children ages 5 to 9 - $4.00
Children ages 4 and under - FREE*
Thursdays are $5 (5 p.m. - 8 p.m.)

Tour Schedules and information on group rates and scheduling groups can be obtained by calling the museum's administrative office at 727-823-3767 weekdays, and 727-822-6270 on weekends.

Tours and discounted rates for groups of 10 or more are available with advance reservations.
Group Adult - $15.00 per visitor
Group Senior - $12.00 per visitor
*Children ten and under must be accompanied by an adult.


20090219 SDOSM Salvador Dali Museum
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory


The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

“La desintegración de la persistencia de la memoria”

This work may be found in The Salvador Dalí Museum (Reynolds Morse Collection), in St Petersburg, Fl, USA.

This is a 1954 recreation by the surrealist painter Salvador Dali of his 1931 painting “The Persistence of Memory.”

According to several accounts, this work was influenced by Sigmund Freud’s work. And there are references that proffer that Mr. Dali “believed that logic had failed humanity, and turned to dreams and the subconscious to transcend the limitations of reason.”

Other accounts suggest that this “This symbolic Surrealist work breaks down the images of the earlier work to represent the psychological effect that nuclear energy’s destruction has on humanity in the aftermath of an atomic bomb.” (Art.com)


Whatever.

According to my old file notes Mr. Dali was quoted to have commented on this painting: “…After twenty years of immobility, the soft watches are themselves dynamically disintegrating...”

When I Googled that quote I was led to http://www.3d-dali.com/ which also elaborated: “Here, Dali broke the images of its famous painting ‘The Persistence of Memory’ (1931). During the last twenty years the painter has been affected by the consequences of several wars, particularly by the destructive use of the nuclear energy. Apart of this warlike use, this invention like many other advances of the human knowledge, interested the Painter, who frequently included them in his works.”

“Sobre este cuadro Dalí comentó: ‘Después de treinta años de inmovilidad, los relojes blandos se están desintegrando dinámicamente...’. Aquí, Dalí descompone las imágenes de su famosa pintura “La persistencia de la memoria” (1931). Durante los últimos veinte años el pintor ha sido afectado por las consecuencias de varias guerras, en particular por el uso destructivo de la energía nuclear. Apartando este uso bélico, esta invención al igual que muchos otros avances del conocimiento humano, interesaron al Pintor, quien con frecuencia, se documentaba y los incluí en sus obras.”

Both Wikipedia and NationMaster say:

“In this version, the landscape from the original work has been flooded with water. Disintegration depicts what is occurring both above and below the water's surface. The landscape of Cadaqués is now hovering above the water. The plane and block from the original is now divided into brick-like shapes that float in relation to each other, with nothing binding them, the tree from which the soft watch hangs being similarly segmented. The hands of the soft watches float above their dials, with several pointed objects resembling rhinoceros horns floating in parallel formations encircling the watches. The distorted human visage from the original painting is beginning to morph into another of the strange fish floating above it. However, to Dali, the fish was a symbol of life.”

19540000 The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

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