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Dali's Portraits.

post #1 of 12
5/1/08 at 5:43am
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Some of my favorite portraits are the society portraits by Salvador Dali. They are grotesque, elegant, obscure, underrated, unflattering, and rather bizarre.
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post #2 of 12
5/1/08 at 11:14am
They're fun though a bit on the kitschy side, IMO. Dali has had many great ideas nontheless- in my view he was half artist half self-inscenated magician-dandy; nothing against that all all btw- some of his artistic theories are extremely fun to read too! (I'd recommend e.g. his "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship")
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post #3 of 12
5/1/08 at 2:09pm
Jorge Stantos is showing at the Evan Lurie Gallery out in the cornfields:

http://www.evanluriegallery.com/
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post #4 of 12
5/1/08 at 9:45pm
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They're fun though a bit on the kitschy side, IMO. Dali has had many great ideas nontheless- in my view he was half artist half self-inscenated magician-dandy; nothing against that all all btw- some of his artistic theories are extremely fun to read too! (I'd recommend e.g. his "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship")
They're rather uncanny in person. Dali upped the surrealist kitsch for those rich American clients, but nonetheless he still manages to paint the subjects in a not very flattering light, I think.
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post #5 of 12
5/1/08 at 9:49pm
I do not understand why anyone would desire such a portrait of themselves. Do you think the sitters appreciated the humour, surreality, unflattering portrayal, etc. or where they just tasteless poseurs intent on having a portrait done by a famous artist?
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post #6 of 12
5/1/08 at 9:55pm
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I do not understand why anyone would desire such a portrait of themselves. Do you think the sitters appreciated the humour, surreality, unflattering portrayal, etc. or where they just tasteless poseurs intent on having a portrait done by a famous artist?
Surrealism was in vogue at that time so they were a kind of status object. Also, Dali was world-famous, and given Americans, they love that kind of famous artist business.
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post #7 of 12
5/1/08 at 10:05pm
The only one I can name is Walt.
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post #8 of 12
5/1/08 at 10:07pm
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The only one I can name is Walt.

The man with the moustache?

I believe that's Colonel Jack Warner.
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post #9 of 12
5/1/08 at 10:12pm
Looks like Walt Disney (also his friendship with Dali lead me to that assumption).
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post #10 of 12
5/3/08 at 7:39pm
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Looks like Walt Disney (also his friendship with Dali lead me to that assumption).

". . . but look less like the Velázquez portraits with which they are often disparagingly compared, than a bad painter's chronicling of a Hollywood 'A list'. In fact, they owe more to Salvador Dali's seminal 1951 portrait of an oily, blue-suited studio boss, Colonel Jack Warner with his highland terrier."

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/julian_schnabel/

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post #11 of 12
5/3/08 at 9:14pm
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Jorge Stantos is showing at the Evan Lurie Gallery out in the cornfields:

http://www.evanluriegallery.com/

i like the one named "favorite son".
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post #12 of 12
5/4/08 at 3:14pm
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They're rather uncanny in person. Dali upped the surrealist kitsch for those rich American clients, but nonetheless he still manages to paint the subjects in a not very flattering light, I think.
As you may have guessed from my previous post I even actually have a weakness for Dali; he really does that "psychological paradigm" and dream-magic stuff quite well (also good: e.g. de Chirico)- think of burning Giraffes and watches...and also here its even more flattering (for those famous guys) to be depicted like that, than it would be were they presentred in an "unimpeded", more realistic painting.

edit: Why? Simple reason: more artistic Truth- and as we all know: "truth shines" brighter ...
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