Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Millet's Architectonic Angelus

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Millet's Architectonic Angelus
Alternate Title: 
Ángelus arquitectónico de Millet
Image View: 
Detail, eroticized shapes against clouds and sky
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.museoreinasofia.es/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-DALI-MRS-AAM-A03
Rights: 
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