Work #1: Title/ Artist/ Date: Dali’s Las Meninas (1975-1976).
A. DESCRIPTION:
Objects: There are 2 versions of paintings. This is set like a window within the sky above the seascape of Cadaques. At the left is a silhouette of Gala over whose shoulder the viewer looks. From the right a painter’s brush casts a shadow affirming it is a paintings and not reality depicted. To reinforce the image is an illusion of a painting complete with false stretcher support and tacks. In this way, Dali presents the viewers with multiple layers of optical illusion.
Colors: Pale color such as brown, gray, light purple, yellow, etc.
Shadow: The shadow of the brush
B. FORMAL ANALYSIS:
The sky and the sea make an open space for viewers to observe more clearly at the window.
Instead of painting all of the character like the old version, Dali just painted the main characters.
The brush makes the painting has another dimension. It draws the viewers into the painting.
C. INTERPRETATION:
What make the painting become famous and interesting are the selected characters and the composition of the whole painting.
Dali assumed each character in “Las meninas” represented for 1 number. However, number 7 was repeated 3 times. And he painted all of them with the number 5 is the maid and number 8 is the princess.
The reason he painted the shadow of the viewer of the left of the painting was he thinks the main character of the painting are the viewers. All of the glances of the characters in the paintings were the about the viewers.
D. EVALUATION:
The painting of Dali is the third state of watching “Las meninas.” If the viewers look at the painting of Velasquez, here is going to be the process
The first stage, they watch with the normal perspective.
The second stage, the viewers notice that the characters look at them
The third stage, which is illustrated in the painting of Dali, the viewers return to the picture, but the princess’s glow disturbs them and their eyes are shifted to the dark area of the upper left side. Therefore, they return to ook at the painting in the usual way and process start all over again.
To me, Las meninas of Dali, in particular, and of Velasquez, in general, are amazing paintings. The deep meaning is the viewers’ ways of watching a painting is the most important thing. It helps to make the meaning of the painting.
Objects: There are 2 versions of paintings. This is set like a window within the sky above the seascape of Cadaques. At the left is a silhouette of Gala over whose shoulder the viewer looks. From the right a painter’s brush casts a shadow affirming it is a paintings and not reality depicted. To reinforce the image is an illusion of a painting complete with false stretcher support and tacks. In this way, Dali presents the viewers with multiple layers of optical illusion.
Colors: Pale color such as brown, gray, light purple, yellow, etc.
Shadow: The shadow of the brush
B. FORMAL ANALYSIS:
The sky and the sea make an open space for viewers to observe more clearly at the window.
Instead of painting all of the character like the old version, Dali just painted the main characters.
The brush makes the painting has another dimension. It draws the viewers into the painting.
C. INTERPRETATION:
What make the painting become famous and interesting are the selected characters and the composition of the whole painting.
Dali assumed each character in “Las meninas” represented for 1 number. However, number 7 was repeated 3 times. And he painted all of them with the number 5 is the maid and number 8 is the princess.
The reason he painted the shadow of the viewer of the left of the painting was he thinks the main character of the painting are the viewers. All of the glances of the characters in the paintings were the about the viewers.
D. EVALUATION:
The painting of Dali is the third state of watching “Las meninas.” If the viewers look at the painting of Velasquez, here is going to be the process
The first stage, they watch with the normal perspective.
The second stage, the viewers notice that the characters look at them
The third stage, which is illustrated in the painting of Dali, the viewers return to the picture, but the princess’s glow disturbs them and their eyes are shifted to the dark area of the upper left side. Therefore, they return to ook at the painting in the usual way and process start all over again.
To me, Las meninas of Dali, in particular, and of Velasquez, in general, are amazing paintings. The deep meaning is the viewers’ ways of watching a painting is the most important thing. It helps to make the meaning of the painting.
Work #2: Title/ Artist/ Date: Portrait of my dead brother/ Salvador Dali/ 1963:
A. DESCRIPTION:
The central of the painting is a face of a young man with the falling hair, which was painted as falling cherries. A group of people was hunting falling cherries.
Colors: colors of a sunset on the beach, the color of death and sadness.
Oil on Canvas
B. FORMAL ANALYSIS: The face of the boy is the arrangement of a lot of large dots. These are called Ben Day dot and many other well-known artists would use this as a technique later on. But here not only is the brother made up of dot, the dots are cherries. His brother was made up in dark cherries and Dali was made in lighter cherries.
C. INTERPRETATION: Dali has a dead brother a nine months and eleven days before Dali was born. His name was Salvador Alley. He lived until 2 but died because of infectious stomach but there are some strange details here. The brother looks far too old to be 2 and the source of the brother’s face is unknown although it looks like it comes from a newspaper . He was actually exactly the same his brother and was the replacement of him as well in order to end up naming Salvador, the same as his brother. That’s why tried his best to be different and to be himself. The bird that makes the brother’s head simplifies the death of his mother when he was a teenager. The group of people were hunting the cherries signified the effort of Dali to escape from the image of the deceased sibling.
D. EVALUATION:
The painting is very arresting with 3D view. The painting is also very creative when compared the image inside Dali’s memory like cherries which can be killed. The deep meaning inside the painting makes it become one of the most important painting in the museum.
The central of the painting is a face of a young man with the falling hair, which was painted as falling cherries. A group of people was hunting falling cherries.
Colors: colors of a sunset on the beach, the color of death and sadness.
Oil on Canvas
B. FORMAL ANALYSIS: The face of the boy is the arrangement of a lot of large dots. These are called Ben Day dot and many other well-known artists would use this as a technique later on. But here not only is the brother made up of dot, the dots are cherries. His brother was made up in dark cherries and Dali was made in lighter cherries.
C. INTERPRETATION: Dali has a dead brother a nine months and eleven days before Dali was born. His name was Salvador Alley. He lived until 2 but died because of infectious stomach but there are some strange details here. The brother looks far too old to be 2 and the source of the brother’s face is unknown although it looks like it comes from a newspaper . He was actually exactly the same his brother and was the replacement of him as well in order to end up naming Salvador, the same as his brother. That’s why tried his best to be different and to be himself. The bird that makes the brother’s head simplifies the death of his mother when he was a teenager. The group of people were hunting the cherries signified the effort of Dali to escape from the image of the deceased sibling.
D. EVALUATION:
The painting is very arresting with 3D view. The painting is also very creative when compared the image inside Dali’s memory like cherries which can be killed. The deep meaning inside the painting makes it become one of the most important painting in the museum.
“The Ecumenical Council”/ Salvador Dali/ 1960
Oil on Canvas
It’s the huge painting hanging on a whole wall of the museum in Anti Art Area. It’s impressive to know that it took him 2 years to finish it. The most interesting thing to me is instead of signing a signature, he drew himself on the left bottom corner. And he drew his wife, Gala, as a figure of a mother. All the painting details related to historical context and his cultural view. Discovering this painting is like discovering his soul, his wild mind.
It’s the huge painting hanging on a whole wall of the museum in Anti Art Area. It’s impressive to know that it took him 2 years to finish it. The most interesting thing to me is instead of signing a signature, he drew himself on the left bottom corner. And he drew his wife, Gala, as a figure of a mother. All the painting details related to historical context and his cultural view. Discovering this painting is like discovering his soul, his wild mind.