Monday Dali with Lotte Tarp,1965 by Werner Bokelberg
Salvador and Gala Dali with A Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds,1936
by Cecil Beaton * [see also]
from christie’s
Mannequin de Salvador Dali by Raoul Ubac *
from Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris, 1938 [also]
from Mythologies,1960-64
Pagan lepidopterus [in possible collaboration with Buñuel],1935
Max Ernst - Loplop introduces the Surrealist Group, 1931
[Ernst’s invention of the enigmatic figure of Loplop is used here to celebrate the new found unity of the group after the schism of 1929-30 when Breton excommunicated dozens of members including Georges Bataille]
from Thomas Tallis
Salvador Dali with his mannequin by Denise Bellon
[also from 1938 Surrealist Exhibition]
Mad Tristan,1949?[ Salvador Dali’s ballet * premiered in December of 1944]
choreography by Leonide Massine
photo by Roger Wood
via NYPL
Immortality from Dali’s Alchimie des philosophes,1976
they’re gorgeous!!!lovely find,thanks;]
frenchtwist:Living Liquid Ladies by Salvador Dalí, 1939
More of Dalí’s Dream of Venus Exhibition at Billy Jane’s.
Famous still from Luis Buñuel’s L’ Age d’Or,1930
This Surrealist masterpiece opens with documentary footage of scorpions doing battle, followed by a series of events staged on a seacoast, including the interruption of partisans by a procession of chanting clerics and the arrival of a group of dignitaries in formal dress, intent on founding the Roman Empire. This last ceremony is brought to a scandalized halt by the appearance of a pair of passionate (and quite vocal) lovers writhing in the mud nearby. The film continues in this spirit for an hour, employing the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Wagner as a kind of connective tissue for, and aural commentary on, the unnerving visuals. In the end, the lovers are doomed to frustration, as institutions of authority (the clergy, army, police, and bourgeois society) impede their attempts at consummation. L’Age d’or provoked riots when it premiered in Paris in December of 1930, and within two weeks of its opening it was banned by French authorities for its blasphemy and subversive worldview.
from MoMA
Lobby of Studio 28 the day after the 3 decembar 1930 screening of L’age D’or
[A group of incensed members of the fascist League of Patriots threw ink at the screen, assaulted members of the audience, and destroyed art works by Dalí, Joan Miró,Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and others on display in the lobby.]
photo from Anxiety and perversion in postwar Paris
in Surrealists Masculinities by Amy Lyford, 2007