Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Still Life
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Still Life
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Alternate Title:
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Natura morta
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Image View:
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Detail, table with guitar and bust on its side at top
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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) AS11136
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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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1926 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Spanish
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Style Period:
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Cubist; 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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199 cm (height) x 150 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; still life; Picasso, Pablo; Federico García Lorca
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Description:
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The enriching friendship between Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca when they were both at the Residencia de Estudiantes resulted in a number of works by each artist. In this still life, echoes of Lorca are present in most of the motifs used: the guitar, the moon going down at the top of the scene, which Lorca would refer to in his Ode to Salvador Dalí: "Night, black statue of prudence, holds the moon's round mirror in her hand" and, above all, the bust lying on the table which looks like a portrait of Lorca. Dalí acknowledged the debt to PIcasso, but chose to paint the guitar as a "soft" form. He said, "This painting, directly influenced by Picasso, is clearly the precursor of my soft watches." (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-SL26-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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