来彼得斯堡达利美术馆 看超现实主义大师的《圣经》插图
彼得斯堡：萨尔瓦多•达利虽然以超现实主义作品闻名于世，但在其漫长而又杰出的创作生涯中，这位伟大的超现实主义大师也创造出了许多风格多样的作品。在创作的中晚期，他一直钟情于对自然的描绘，这也是达利美术馆永久收藏中最受欢迎的主题之一。该美术馆近期打算展出达利为《圣经》中一些段落所作的插画。
1904年5月11日生于西班牙菲格拉斯，1989年1月23日逝世。西班牙超现实主义画家和版画家，以探索潜意识的意象著称。与毕加索、马蒂斯一起被认为是二十世纪最有代表性的三个画家。
他是一位具有卓越天才和想象力的画家 。在把梦境的主观世界变成客观而令人激动的形象方面，他对超现实主义、对二十世纪的艺术做出了严肃认真的贡献。达利的一生充满了传奇色彩。除了他的绘画，他的文章、他的囗才、他的动作、他的相貌、他的胡须和他的宣传才能。他用所有这一切，在各种各样的语言中造就了超现实主义这一个专有名词，去表示一种无理性的、色情的、疯狂的而且是时髦的艺术。达利的生活本身就是一个十足的超现实主义者，以至其它的超现实主义者对他的笃诚和绘画成就，抱有强烈的怀疑态度。主要的证据也许就是他那些绘画，没有人能够否认得了他那无尽的才能、想象能力或者他所显示的强烈信心。
ST. PETERSBURG, FL.-Although he is best known for his Surrealist works, Salvador Dalí incorporated countless styles and themes into his work throughout his long and illustrious career. Many of the images he utilized in his mid and late career were religious in nature, and works featuring those themes are among the most popular of the Salvador Dalí Museum’s permanent collection. Now for the first time, the museum is presenting an exhibition of Dalí’s illustrations of selected passages from the Bible.
Commissioned by Dr. Giuseppe Albaretto, a friend of Salvador Dalí and collector of his work, as a way to encourage Dalí to re-examine his spirituality and draw him back into the Catholic Church, Dalí’s Biblia Sacra encompasses 105 paintings based on passages from the Latin Vulgate Bible. The original illustrations were completed between 1963 and 1964, with a combination of gouache, watercolor, ink and pastel and published in 1967. Verses from the Old and New Testament of the Holy Bible accompany each illustration.
Raised by a Catholic mother and an atheist father, Dalí grew up among religious and moral conflicts, exacerbated by his father’s marriage to his deceased wife’s sister, and the artist’s affair with Gala Eluard, a married woman. Although Dalí began incorporating religious and historical images into his compositions; had audiences with Popes Pius XII and John XXIII; and even renewed his marriage vows to Gala in a church ceremony, the artist’s search for faith was a life-long journey. Dali’s illustrations for the bible are among his finest illustrated works.
Dalí’s Biblia Sacra, on display in the Raymond James Community Room Gallery, is curated by Dirk Armstrong, Assistant Curator. Fifty-three of the 105 works, will be on display through November 18, 2007.
The museum will present a lecture by Dr. Keith White from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida on the History of the Bible as Literature on Thursday, September 27 at 6 p.m. The lecture is free with paid admission ($5 after 5 p.m. on Thursdays). Admission is always free for members and USF students.
The 2006-2007 season is made possible by Progress Energy, whose continued support for arts in the community provides a benchmark for corporate engagement. Progress Energy has been a generous supporter of the Salvador Dalí Museum’s educational programs and exhibitions since 2002.
The Salvador Dalí Museum, which holds the pre-eminent American collection of the artist’s work and celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2007, is sponsored in part by the Pinellas County Cultural Affairs Department, the City of St. Petersburg, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council. For more information about the Salvador Dalí Museum, please visit the Museum web site at www.SalvadorDaliMuseum.org or call (800) 442-3254.