This morning, after crossing the border into Spain, we stopped at Figueras, home and resting place of Salvador Dali and his bizarre and unique Dali Teatro Museum. The outside of the building welcomes you with encrustations of bread rolls dotting across the red walls, giant eggs resembling towers on a castle's battlement, and golden female sculptures like dancing Oscar statuettes dotted along the rooftop. Not your ordinary building and, at Easter, it looked eggcellent!
Inside the museum was a feast of surreal art, from bizarre drawings, mammoth sized paintings, visually disturbing sculptures to a whole room installation of artworks that together formed the face of Mae West.
Salvador Dali's black Chevrolet was a central attraction with rain falling inside, wetting the plastic passengers. An umbrella hovered above outside. Many of Dali's famous artworks are found in this spectacular museum, and some are arranged to reflect on others forming the illusions of which Dali's has become famous.
Can you see the illusion? A nude in a pixelated symbolic landscape or Abraham Lincoln?
Can you see the illusion of the notable Spanish bullfighter and the bull in the amphitheatre?
A ceiling mural by Salvador Dali with that famous moustache
No comments:
Post a Comment