Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Millet's Architectonic Angelus
Alternate Title:
Ángelus arquitectónico de Millet
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Salvador Dalí (Spanish painter, 1904-1989)
Location:
repository: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) AS10529
Location Note:
52 Santa Isabel Street
GPS:
40.408889-3.694444
Date:
1933 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Spanish
Style Period:
Surrealist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
73 cm (height) x 60 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; landscape
Description:
Towards the end of the 1920s, taking French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s theories as a starting point, Salvador Dalí arrived at the discovery of the paranoiac-critical method, a system of research that the painter defined as a "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena." One of the iconographic variants in Dalí’s paranoiac-critical repertory is the so-called "caprices", or subjects selected by chance. One of them was Millet’s L'Angélus (The Angelus), a painting exemplifying Christian morality of the 19th century, which Dalí admired enormously. During the process of re-interpreting the subject, Dalí gave it erotic connotations of varying levels of explicitness, as he did with the majority of his output. (Source: Museo Reina Sofia [website]; https://www.museorei nasofia.es/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-DALI-MRS-AAM-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Millet's Architectonic Angelus