Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Millet's Architectonic Angelus
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Alternate Title:
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Ángelus arquitectónico de Millet
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Image View:
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Detail, eroticized shapes against clouds and sky
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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) AS10529
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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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1933 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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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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73 cm (height) x 60 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; landscape
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Description:
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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/)
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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-AAM-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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