Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Still Life
Alternate Title:
Natura morta
Image View:
Detail, table with guitar and bust on its side at top
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS11136
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1926 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Spanish
Style Period:
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
199 cm (height) x 150 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; still life; Picasso, Pablo; Federico García Lorca
Description:
The enriching friendship between Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca when they were both at the Residencia de Estudiantes resulted in a number of works by each artist. In this still life, echoes of Lorca are present in most of the motifs used: the guitar, the moon going down at the top of the scene, which Lorca would refer to in his Ode to Salvador Dalí: "Night, black statue of prudence, holds the moon's round mirror in her hand" and, above all, the bust lying on the table which looks like a portrait of Lorca. Dalí acknowledged the debt to PIcasso, but chose to paint the guitar as a "soft" form. He said, "This painting, directly influenced by Picasso, is clearly the precursor of my soft watches." (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-SL26-A0 2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Still Life