Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Invisible Man
Alternate Title:
L'homme invisible
Image View:
Detail, womb-like vessel with light bulb inside
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS11142
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1929-1932 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
140 cm (height) x 81 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; landscape
Description:
The paranoiac-critical method, created by Salvador Dalí, presented the manipulation of conventional images either by breaking up, or by decay, and added an equally important discovery: what are known as "paranoiac" or "double images" which are, in Dalí words, "the representation of an object which, without the least figurative or anatomical modification, is at the same time the representation of another absolutely different object." These ambiguous images are perfectly discernible in paintings like The Invisible Man, 1929-1932, where there are at least six different types of these images. There are a number of precedents for these types of representations in art history, such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s figures. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-TIM-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Invisible Man