Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Invisible Man
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Invisible Man
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Alternate Title:
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L'homme invisible
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Image View:
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Detail, womb-like vessel with light bulb inside
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Creator:
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Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS11142
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Location Note:
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52 Santa Isabel Street
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GPS:
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+40.408889-3.694444
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Date:
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1929-1932 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Surrealist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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140 cm (height) x 81 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; landscape
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Description:
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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.museoreinasofia.es/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-DALI-MRS-TIM-A06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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