DALI
This week my brother and sis in law and I spent some time on the west coast (of Florida) to visit some sites.
The (Howard) Solomon castle....a roadside attraction, but way off the road in swamp, Ybor, an historic neighborhood in Tampa, and the Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburgh.
The building itself is a work of art.
And once inside, the central staircase of swirled cement is another.
And then.......upstairs, Dali.
There are 2 exhibit halls. One is the permanent Dali collection, the other is temporary, traveling collections. On our visit this one was of Disney and Dali.....two artists who had high regard for each other's work and collaborated to produce a short, animated film. Fascinating.
On the Dali side, there were some samples of his earlier works., starting with classical, to impressionism, to cubism and then the slow slide into surrealism.
To stand in front of these creations, some of them mammoth, to see the perfection of his technique, the colors, the scale, the fine details, the scope.....it was, well, thrilling.
Heavily influenced by Freud, Dali left the realm of the identifiable and dove into the phantasmagoric arena of the unconscious, free of all constraints. His creations were in the absence of control, impulsed only by free association with his subconscious. They were a fixed representation of fleeting visions from the bizarre territory of his mind.
The exhibit included a 3 minute virtual reality experience.
You observed a painting, put on the headset and entered its world.... 360 degrees.
As you kept clicking, you entered it at deeper and deeper levels.
It was pretty fantabulous.
Even my brother, who is not the biggest fan of art museums.....even he loved this museum.
It was a great little trip.
For any interested, here is the short (6 minute) film by Disney and Dali.
DALI
This week my brother and sis in law and I spent some time on the west coast (of Florida) to visit some sites.
The (Howard) Solomon castle....a roadside attraction, but way off the road in swamp, Ybor, an historic neighborhood in Tampa, and the Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburgh.
The building itself is a work of art.
And once inside, the central staircase of swirled cement is another.
And then.......upstairs, Dali.
There are 2 exhibit halls. One is the permanent Dali collection, the other is temporary, traveling collections. On our visit this one was of Disney and Dali.....two artists who had high regard for each other's work and collaborated to produce a short, animated film. Fascinating.
On the Dali side, there were some samples of his earlier works., starting with classical, to impressionism, to cubism and then the slow slide into surrealism.
To stand in front of these creations, some of them mammoth, to see the perfection of his technique, the colors, the scale, the fine details, the scope.....it was, well, thrilling.
Heavily influenced by Freud, Dali left the realm of the identifiable and dove into the phantasmagoric arena of the unconscious, free of all constraints. His creations were in the absence of control, impulsed only by free association with his subconscious. They were a fixed representation of fleeting visions from the bizarre territory of his mind.
The exhibit included a 3 minute virtual reality experience.
You observed a painting, put on the headset and entered its world.... 360 degrees.
As you kept clicking, you entered it at deeper and deeper levels.
It was pretty fantabulous.
Even my brother, who is not the biggest fan of art museums.....even he loved this museum.
It was a great little trip.
For any interested, here is the short (6 minute) film by Disney and Dali.