Love him or hate him Salvador Dali is one of the most recognizable artists on the planet. For some reason this man’s art continues to fascinate millions. Whether images of his paintings are gracing the walls of a dorm room or used as desktop backgrounds there’s no debate that in terms of mass reproduction of imagery, no one tops Dali. I think it is also mandatory that every 14 year old boy interested in drawing go through a Dali phase. I must admit that my own relationship with Dali’s work seems to be one more of nostalgia. Nonetheless, Dali is an extremely easy entry point into painting. His work is highly modeled, and excellently crafted. Everyone who looks at Dali’s bread painting must agree, this guy could seriously paint. Then on top of that you have an explosive imagination. Long legged elephants on parade and clocks melting in barren landscapes.

One thing about Dali is that he isn’t really taken seriously in the art world. When people hear someone saying that “Dali” is their favorite artist they kind of classify them as naive romantics or they lose points for not being creative enough. If you want to sound cool when someone asks you your favorite painter it’s generally a good idea to say someone really obscure like Louis Wain. What? You don’t know Louis Wain? Ohmagawd. He’s only the most famous painter of cats who became schizophrenic and continued to paint these absolutely insane psychadelic cats. You see my point? I think the big reason people don’t like Dali is because he’s just too damn popular. But in secret everyone kind of loves him.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was a Spanish Catalan born in Figueres Spain. He also had an older brother who was also named Salvador who died. When little salvador was 5 his parents took him to see the grave of his brother Salvador. So he stood there, looking at a gravestone, with his name on it, when he was 5. To top things off his parents decided to tell him that he was the reincarnation of his brother. I don’t know what kinds of messed up parents they had back then but I think it’s safe to say it’s generally not a good idea to do this. Believe it or not Vincent Van Gogh also had an older brother (named Vincent) who died before he was born. And we all know how that turned out.

Anyway, Dali spent a ton of time chillin on the beach drawing pictures while he was growing up. In the summer he got to go hang out with this landscape painter named Ramon Pichot. Remember that Salvador was only 12, but his enthusiasm towards drawing was so evident that his parents decided to nurture it. Just by looking at these cartoons he was drawing at age 12 and 13 you can see that Dali undoubtedly was the “kid who could draw”. By age 14 he had set up a studio in an unused washroom in his parents house, and he began to paint.

In “old man at twilight” we see one of Dali’s first paintings. He had probably messed around with paint a bit during his summer trips to the beach house, but now that he had a studio you can see someone who is determined to be a painter. There are a few technical things which spring to mind. First of all it is certain that Dali already has a good understanding of paint application, he is not afraid to get messy with it and is quite loose and free. He also connects the dark of the legs to the ground. This is something which was very popular with the post impressionists such as Degas. The idea being that the brain will fill in the extraneous information. This is also a rule of design, it’s called “Closure”. The composition isn’t the best and the figure is basically smack in the center of the painting, but hey, the guy’s 14, maybe we should give him a break. A bunch of attempts at realism continue on throughout the next few years.

So the years pass, and it comes time to go to college. It’s the same old story. The stern dad is scared his son will never make a penny from being a painter, and reluctantly sends his son to school with the exception that Salvador must obtain his teaching credentials so he can have a career. Salvador also wrote like mad, and kept a diary all throughout his teens. After he parents told him he would be allowed to study art he made this diary entry.

“The supreme and perhaps most important decision of my life, since it indicates the direction that I have to follow, is the following (which has been approved by my family): I shall quickly finish my remaining studies, doing the remaining two years in just one. Then I’ll go to Madrid to the Academia de bellas artes…There I intend to spend three years working like mad, anyway the Academia is a fine place. Then by sacrificing myself and submitting to truth I will win the prize to study for four years in Rome; and coming back from Rome I’ll be a genius, and the world will admire me. Perhaps I’ll be more despised and misunderstood, but I ll be a genius, a great genius, I am sure of it.

The first thing I have to say about this diary entry is “who is he writing this for?” He has already made up his mind that he is going to be famous, so at this point it is almost as if he is leaving an easy rode for future historians to follow. At the same time it retains a certain teenage naivitee. he basically starts off saying (My Parents said it’s ok!) and then go on to talk about how he will now be a genius. Glad his parents let him;)

And then it’s 1921, Dali makes this self portrait of himself. I think it’s fair to say that if Dali were alive today, at this point he’d probably be pretty damn emo. Wearing a large hat, smoking a pipe, and casually glancing at the viewer. The darkness surrounds him with mystery. Needless to say I imagine he didn’t have much of a problem picking up the ladies with this image. And it is this same image that still kind of irks a lot of critics to this day. He seems to embody a very stereotypical artistic personality. He’s wild, hard working, eccentric, but also intelligent and flamboyantly dressed. The question many have is whether or not it was all an act or not to which I say “who cares?” I mean really, who cares how he marketed himself or developed his personal brand. He also left like a zillion paintings all over the place, and they’re great paintings.

So Dali is going through art school kicking ass. He’s painting all the time and he even begins to show and sell his works. It’s also important to remember that Spain during this time was a political firestorm. There were numerous anarchist, fascist, and communist rallies and the monarchy which had ruled spain for so long had become unstable. Sometimes the governments reprisals against the anarchists were bloody. By 1923 Salvador was the star pupil in the school. He and many students really wanted their favorite teacher to become the Professor of Open Air painting. Well, after someone less qualified was given the position the students became very angry. And salvador actually led a protest against the school. For this he was expelled for one year. He then goes to another school in madrid and does figure drawing. During this same time the Dictatorship of Rivera comes to power in Spain. Dali is active in many protests against the dictator and because of this he is imprisoned for a month, he was then released because there was no evidence against him. Just his ideas.

By 1925 Dali is back in school but he’s becoming increasingly difficult to teach. During one of his assesments he tells the school board that they aren’t competent enough to judge him. He gets expelled again. Even though his technical skills seem to be at a very high level as is evident in his painting “bread” . By this time he has many close artistic and intellectual friendships which he feels very close to. We can see by his paintings that even though he abandoned his school he continues to paint very traditional female nudes. This should be an example to all you aspiring surrealist painters out there. If you want to learn how to paint, paint the figure.

Dali then has a cubist phase which is offensive to even look at. And then he starts making these landscapes. I believe they come from Joan Miro who was also an upcoming Catalan star, and someone Dali undoubtedly admired. Compare Miro’s “the tilled field” in 1923 with Dalis early experiments with these types of landscapes. The similarities are strikingly apparent. Then in 1928 Dali paints Little Ashes which seems to be a breakthrough painting for Dali. He begins to create these dreamlike landscapes filled with various creatures, optical illusions, animals, and naked people. But this is already 1928. Dali is 24 and the surrealist manifesto was written back in 1924 by Andre Breton. So it seems that instead of pioneering the surrealist movement as many believe, he actually came in pretty late in the game. But these barren landscapes full of sexually charged imagery would become his home. And this is what we all know Dali for today. One can look at either Miro, or even De Chirico who was making similar barren landscapes full of disparate imagery back in 1913. It is important to note that surrealism at this point was a very social movement. Many times they would meet in cafes together and create large colloborative drawings. As a rule surrealists would state that the art was a byproduct of a philosophy, so the idea that “someone stole an idea” from someone else didn’t really exist. It is also no mistake that while Freud was writing “The ego and the Id”(1923), in which he developed it as an alternative to the conscious, unconscious, and preconscious. The ideas of Freud and the surrealist leader Andre Breton are the heart of surrealism. In many ways this is the closest relationship that art and science have occupied since the Rennaissance.

This collaborative nature led Dali to investigate film, and in 1929 he worked with Luis Benel to create Un Chien Andalou.

Dali was continually pushing the boundaries of conventional morality and this caused his family to further distance themselves from him. He was becoming increasingly provacative and it was in 1931 that he created his most famous work. “The Persistence of Memory” In this painting we see a barren landscape inhibatied by various soft clocks which are draping themselves on various objects. In the bottom right we see what appears to be some sort of nebulous sleeping mass. It is apparent that it is that of a human. But we can’t quite make out the correct form. Dali is trying to convey the fogginess of the dream state here and the clocks can symbolise a few things. It could be that while dreaming our sense of time becomes muddied, or it also could be in reference to another great thinker of that time, which was Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity. Nonetheless this painting has become iconic and strikes a cord with millions of people to this day. The thing that really shocked me whenh I first saw it is it’s size. It’s a really little painting measuring only 24cm× 33cm (9.5in× 13in). Which in my opinion makes the brushwork all the more amazing. Overall the works from this period of time reflected what Dali said was his “Freudian Period”

The next work we will be looking at is the Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937). Dali completed this work after returning from a very successful stay in the US. It was created using what Dali called the Paranoic-Critical method. This basically meant putting to similarly shaped objects near each other, and suggesting that one form is something else. So in this case we see Narcissus who is gazing into his reflective pool. And on the right we see a finger with an egg on it. The idea was to have completely disparate elements, and make them work together. It also plays with our ideas of perception and how we create our own symbolism in our minds. The overall idea is to create links between things which rationally are not linked. Nonetheless, Dali’s symbolism still seeps into everything he does: so in a sense it isn’t all exactly random. If we further investigate what we believe to be random, we discover that all of the random stuff that happens to us also makes our personalities.

In the next few years civil war broke out in Spain which preceded World War II. Dali got out of Europe as fast as he could and refused to take sides in the battle. This caused a lot to label him as a wimp most notably George Orwell who were beginning to despise the cult of personality surrounding Dali, and the way that Dali seemed to have a mutually parasitic relation. But the underlying question was whether or not Dali was playing a joke on everyone. In his former years he called himself a Monarchist Anarchist, and after the war finished he started a very strange close relationship with the authoritarian Franco regime, even painting Franco’s daughter. He converted to catholicism, and did another super realistic bread painting (this time the bread representing the eucharist) . He made statements about how the state should wipe out the anarchists, yet he still loved and spoke about the work of Federico García Lorca who was a firend of Dali’s who was most likely killed by nationalists, and his work had become banned in Spain at the time.

In 1953 Dali returns to repaint his most famous work the persistence of memory. As I stated previously one could assume that the original painting could be linked to Einstein’s idas of Space/Time . In that sense this work is a continuation of that theme. Except now what we know about physics has changed and this painting has a lot more to do with quantum mechanics and the idea that everything can be endlessly broken down into smaller components.

During the 50s and 60s Dali creates many christian based paintings. He also began to work closely with celebreties in the mainstream. He made the dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcocks film spellbound. He also worked with fashion designers, furniture designers, and even produced a cartoon with Walt Disney called Destino. It would be this close relationship with the giants of media which many would begin to see as off putting.

In 1967 Dali creates what many regard as his final masterpiece. Tuna Fishing. In this painting we see the entrails of tuna being ripped open and scattered about the painting. They morph themselves into other imagery ala Dalis Paranoic Critical method. The one part of the painting I find to be atypical of Dali’s work is the black figure at the center bottom of the work. It is appears to look like a silkscreen and almost reminiscent of another man who knew how to work the media at the same time. Andy Warhol. In keeping with Dali’s aloof nature when commenting on his paintings he claimed that the work was inspired by Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier. He also started working commercially and created the Chupa Chups logo among other things.

In 1977 Dali completes (this is the title coming) “Dalí’s Hand Drawing Back the Golden Fleece in the Form of a Cloud to Show Gala Completely Nude, Very Far Away Behind the Sun ” In this painting Dali actually created a stereoscopic image, which means that if looked at correctly, (or with the aid of a special mirrored viewer) they fuse into a single 3-D image.

In 1980 his wife started going mad and began feeding him cocktails of drugs mixed into his drinks. It is believed that she was senile and was not doing anything out of malice. However the drugs took a toll on Dali’s body and his hand shook so badly that he could no longer paint. The last years of his life proved to be chaotic and after his wifes death in 1982 he pretty much lost it completely. He moved into a castle, and threw himself out of the window. He also refused to drink water, and intentionally dehydrated his body. Whether these were suicide attempts is unknown, however it would be difficult to fully understand anymore what is show, what is simply Dali, and what is reality. Or perhaps, Dali is Reality In 1983 he would create his last painting. The swallows Tail. At this point Dali was brought back to Figueres by a group of concerned friends and artists, and they made sure he was taken care of until his dying day. Then, on January 23, 1989 Dali’s heart stopped beating while he listened to one of his favorite Operas Tristen and Isolde. He was 84 years old.

Watch Salvador Dali’s Film he made with Luis Benel “Un Chien Andalou”

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Episode 5: Salvador Dali

So, one important thing to remember when studying art history is that sometimes you have to appreciate works you don’t personally find aesthetically appealing. This is the my relationship with chagall. Amongst all the painters who lived in Paris during the 1920s he seems the most tame to me. His fluffy characters and bright palette can almost fall into kitsch at times. But then again, one must remember that Chagall was not only a painter. He did stained glass windows all over the world, he did book illustrations, prints, stage sets, and even tapestries. He was an artistic craftsman, and he was also rooted in Jewish tradition.

Chagall was born in Vitebsk in what is now Belarus. While he was growing up anti semetism was rampant so many jews would hide their heritage and assimilate. Marc (Or his born name Moshe) on the other hand embraced his Jewish Identity and created works of art rooted in eastern european jewish traditions. Even the way he lays out his compositions seems to have more in common with ancient jewish art rather than modernism. But the big thing to remember about chagall is that he was a precursor to surrealism.

He went to school in st petersburgh in 1902, but at the time Jews weren’t allowed inside the city without special documentation so he had a friend set him up with some fake documents. He studied there, and did all the normal academic paintings and drawings. Painting landscapes and figures. In 1908 he was studying with Leon Bakst . Leon was also a Jew, but he had become sucessful and served as a role model to young Moshe (marc). It was during this time studying under Bakst that Chagall discovered experimental theater and the work of Gaugin. This was probably one of those art school “wow, this is exactly what I love” moments. By 1910 he wanted to get out of Russia and move to the art center of the world, Paris.

Once in Paris, Chagall soon realised that cubism was the dominant art form, and that he was a bit of an outsider. He had an unashamed view towards sentimentality which was the polar opposite to the cubist/materialistic view of the world. Nonetheless, instead of trying to be something he wasn’t, Chagall found his voice and kept on creating the paintings which we all know him for today.

Chagall was super excited to be in paris. However he still yearned for his small town where he grew up. In fact all of these paintings depicting Jewish Traditional Life in Eastern Europe were actually all painted while he lived in paris. In this sense they were more like dreams or fantasies of his own childhood. Yet, many times chagall would also use symbolism which shows that the paintings were something other than just an autobiography.

Chagalls wife was still back in Vitebsk while he was in Paris. Chagall became pre occupied with the idea of returning to russia long enough to marry Bella, and then coming back with her to Paris. In 1914 Chagall had a huge show in Berlin, and after the show he had planned on continuing on to Vitebsk where he’d quickly marry Bella and then return to Paris. As fate would have it, while Chagall was back in Vitebsk the first world war broke out. And Russia’s borders were quickly closed. So basically Chagall was stuck in a town with his new bride. They had their first child together, and chagall tried to convince Bella’s family that he would be able to provide for their family. They were worried about her marrying a poor Jewish painter.

So 5 years pass and Chagall continues to paint these dreamy looking paintings and he starts making a name for himself in the art world. Some well known collectors start buying his stuff, and he becomes a well known figure in the art world. In 1917 the October revolution offered chagall an opportunity, since he was one of the most famous artists the communists wanted to use him. The commies offered him the highest position an artist could have in the government. Something similar to the head of the National Endowment for the Arts or something like that. But Chagall didn’t want to be so high profile so he asked if he could be head of the Arts for his small town of Vitebsk. The commies agreed and let him start a school which quickly became the most prestigious art school in the Soviet Union. By 1918 famine had spread throughout the Soviet Union so Chagall had to move closer to Moscow to get a steady supply of food. During this team he did odd jobs and taught painting and drawing to children whose parents were killed in the war. By 1922 The Soviet Union was a hell hole and there was a feeling that the commies were about to take away everyones freedom. Chagall, formerly the most distinguished painter in the Soviet Union wanted to get out. He wasn’t alone. During the 20s a mass exodus of artists and writers and intelectuals fled Russia. During this same time was the rise of a movement called “constructivism” this could simply be called “art for arts sake” and it is one of the most important art movements of the 20th century. By 1933 Constructivism was labeled as “anti-revolutionary” and “bouegousie” so the communists banned it. Almost 60 years of shlocky social realist crap would take its place.

So needless to say. Chagall got the hell out of the Soviet Union. There wasn’t any artistic expression, and there wasn’t even food! He moved back to Paris with Bella. On his way back to paris he stopped in Berlin in hopes of finding some of his paintings from the show he had a decade previous (remember he had the show, and then left for Vitebsk after the opening night. So technically he got locked into the Soviet Union while he still had a major show up in Berlin!). Anyway, so he’s in Berlin trying to track down what happened to all the paintings from his show ten years ago. And they’re all gone. He can’t find anything. For this reason he started repainting these paintings, trying to hold onto that period of his life where he dreamed of Vitebsk from the streets of Paris. It didn’t take long and he was back in the art world again. By 1926 he had his first show in the United States and he was becoming well known as an international art star along with the other important Paris painters.

In 1931 he got a commission to illustrate the old testament of the Bible. He used it as an excuse to go to Palestine and visit all of the holy sites. During this time he felt an extremely close connection to his jewishness and he started studying everything about jewish mythology. During this time Chagall made the quote “I did not see the Bible, I dreamed it. Ever since early childhood, I have been captivated by the Bible. It has always seemed to me and still seems today the greatest source of poetry of all time. “

Chagall became obsessed with Biblical paintings and travelled to Amsterdam to see the El Grecos and Rembrandts there.

In keeping with Chagalls terribble luck. Just as Chagall is at the crescendo of working on his super jewy book of the Old Testament guess who comes to power? Yeah. This asshole. It seems like you can’t go anywhere in 20th century art without running into him at some point. So, as soon as the nazis take power they basically take any art that they find hard to understand and they confiscate it or burn it. They even made a point to address Chagalls work in particular saying it was (demon voice) “Although the German press had once “swooned over him,” the new German leadership now made a mockery of Chagall’s art, describing them as “green, purple, and red Jews shooting out of the earth, fiddling on violins, flying through the air . . . representing [an] assault on Western civilization.” ummm. yeah. ok. I guess that means that we can fight terrorism by not eating falafel.

Anyway. The crazy thing is that in 1940 a lot of jews couldn’t believe what was happening, or were complete oblivious to it. Jews were being rounded up and sent to concentration camps and nobody knew. France hadn’t passed any anti-semetic laws yet so Chagall thought he was ok. It was his daughter Ida who basically told him that he needed to get the hell out of France. Thankfully since he was such a well known artist, and had previously had shows in the US, he was actually invited to come and be a refugee there. In 1941 he took the offer and moved to New York. He quickly acclimated himself and felt at home with all the other Eastern European Jews that were all over. Chagall didn’t really fit into the American scene right away. It was like, everyone knew his work was good, but no one really liked it. Kind of what I first thought of him as well to be honest. Anyway Matisses kid Pierre was also living in New York at the time so he set Chagall up with some huge shows in New York and Chicago. After this validation from the art world his work became super popular.

By 1945 the true horrors of the holocaust began to become public, and Chagalls home town of Vitebsk was completely destroyed. This was also the same year his wife Bella died due to a viral infection which wasn’t treated because of rationing of medicine for the war. In Chagall’s mind Bella was another victim of the holocaust albeit in different manner. Needless to say he blamed her death on Nazi Germany and this is something that would stay with him forever. You can see in his works that he is thinking about current events and making his personal story very closely connected to larger political issues.

In 1948 it is now safe to return back to France. Chagall returns to France. He begins an off and on relationship with a woman named Virginia Haggard. This fizzles out and Chagall is alone in Paris. His daughter Ida plays matchmaker and introduces him to Vava Brodsky who was also a russian jew. The two hit it off and get married very quickly. The ten years following could easily be called the “sell out” years, and have actually in my opinion given chagalls works a somewhat kitschy feel. It was during this decade that Chagall began painting and selling his work on everything. Pots, pans, jugs, tapestries, curtains, everything you can imagine. It was like he had an account on one of those online shops that asks you if you’d like this photo on a coffee mug or a mouse pad. With that being said I don’t think that his work became too kitschy, it’s more that Chagall really didn’t care about what the established norms of how a painter should act. Normally, a painter gets famous, has shows, sells paintings, and then makes more paintings in a similar style so people don’t get too confused. However Chagall was all over the place. Doing sets for ballets, making ceramics, sculptures, everything.

In 1963 he got a commission to paint the ceiling of the Opera hall in France. This created a controversy because it was a historical building and many people didn’t want to see it painted in a non traditional manner. There was also some underlying xenophobia directed at Chagall who was a jewish immigrant painting a historical french monument. To the criticism and xenophobia directed at chagall , chagall replied

“They really had it in for me…. It is amazing the way the French resent foreigners. You live here most of your life. You become a naturalized French citizen… work for nothing decorating their cathedrals, and still they despise you. You are not one of them. “

Chagall was now 77. He spends a year on his back working on the Opera House. When it opens to the public the symphony plays Mozart’s Jupiter symphony in his honour. The entire opera house was dim as jupiter’s symphony played. As the music began to build the lights came on, and the crowd began to cheer. Chagall ceiling was a great success, and even the former critics had their mouths shut.

It is also during this time that Chagall starts making these giant stained glass windows all over the world. I was lucky enough to have one at my school at the School of the Art institute of Chicago. I remembered the scene from Ferris Bueller’s day off where they all went to the Art institute and he kisses his girlfriend in front of the Chagall window. I started telling girls that they kissed in front of the Chagall window for good luck, and that everyone knows this. Hey, it worked.

During the 70s Chagall continued to work producing works in various mediums. He lived until 1985 when he died at age 98.

I’ll wrap this up with a quote from Author Serena Davies which I believe succinctly wraps up what an epic life this man lead.

“By the time he died in France in 1985 – the last surviving master of European modernism, outliving Joan Miró by two years – he had experienced at first hand the high hopes and crushing disappointments of the Russian revolution, and had witnessed the end of the Pale, the near annihilation of European Jewry, and the obliteration of Vitebsk, his home town, where only 118 of a population of 240,000 survived the Second World War.”

He came from nowhere to achieve worldwide acclaim. Yet his fractured relationship with his Jewish identity was “unresolved and tragic,” Davies states. “He would have died with no Jewish rites, had not a Jewish stranger stepped forward and said the kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, over his coffin.”

Episode 4: Marc Chagall

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