The Anthropomorphic Tower, Salvador Dalí, 1930
Salvador Dalí肖像Salvador Dalí西班牙, 1904–1989

The Anthropomorphic Tower

1930 · Drawing and Watercolor

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Salvador Dalí created Anthropomorphic Tower at a time in his career when he aligned himself with the Surrealists and began to produce dreamlike images charged with sexual desires and anxieties. This pastel relates to a painting of the same year called The Great Masturbator (now in the Museo nacional centro de arte Reina Sofia, Madrid). While in the painting the torso is clearly male and the head female, the pastel obfuscates each form’s sexual identity. Here the palette on the right is more subdued, in contrast with the color of the tower-penis in the upper left, which is so bright as to appear almost spot lit. Dalí used the motif several times during this period. Could the figure with closed eyes on the right be dreaming or hallucinating the image of the Anthropomorphic Tower? Dalí’s image is open to interpretation, which is at the heart of Surrealist art.

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Salvador Dalí当时的生活

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  1. 1928

    Scandal: “Dialogue on the Beach” is rejected

    The Barcelona Autumn Salon rejected “Dialogue on the Beach (Unsatisfied Desires)” as unfit for a gallery visited by “the numerous public little prepared for certain surprises”. The scandal was widely covered in the Barcelona press, and a Madrid illustrated weekly interviewed Dalí.

  2. August 1929

    Meets Gala

    Dalí met his lifelong muse and future wife Gala, born Elena Diakonova, a Russian émigrée ten years his senior, then married to the Surrealist poet Paul Éluard.

  3. 1929

    First Paris show; joins the Surrealists

    Dalí's first Paris exhibition, eleven works at the Goemans Gallery, was a commercial success; André Breton called his new work “the most hallucinatory that has been produced up to now”. That year he officially joined the Surrealist group, who hailed what he would call his paranoiac-critical method.

  4. 28 December 1929

    His father throws him out

    His father disapproved of his romance with Gala and his Surrealist friends, and on reading that he had exhibited in Paris a drawing inscribed “Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait”, demanded a public recantation. Dalí refused and was thrown out of the family home, told he would be disinherited and must never set foot in Cadaqués again.

  5. summer 1930

    A fisherman's cabin at Port Lligat

    Dalí and Gala rented a small fisherman's cabin in the nearby bay of Port Lligat; he soon bought it and over the years added the neighbouring ones, gradually building his beloved villa by the sea.

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