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Dalí Retrospective 2012-2013 Centre Georges Pompidou-Paris
The large part of the following works were completed in the 1930's
Objet surréaliste à fonctionnement symbolique, le soulier de Gala ... Surrealist objects, Gala's slipper (wife of Dalí)
Veston Aphrodisiaque, liqueur du Peppermint ... Aphrodisiac's Jacket
Venus de Milo aux tiroirs ... Venus de Milo as a bureau dresser
Millet's Angelus, Dalí Interpretation
"Paranoia uses the outside world to convey the obsessional idea, with the disturbing characteristic of making the reality of this idea valid for others. The reality of the outside world serves as an illustration and proof, and is used to support the reality of our mind."*
As a child, Dalí was obsessed with the portrait Angelus of a farming couple praying by Jean-François Millet. Dalí was so greatly disturbed by a copy of this painting which hung at his school, that he had disturbing dreams. He developed the paranoiac-critical method of playing art historian which he used his disturbed interpretations to analyze different works of art in order to better tolerate his overactive visions. He was convinced the couple were praying over the grave of their child, and he saw them as a couple of praying mantises. In 1963, he convinced the Musée de Louvre, where the original painting resides, to investigate the work in order to confirm his intuitions.**
* **Dalí Retrospective 2012-2013 Centre Georges Pompidou-Paris
Millet's Angelus, Dalí Interpretation
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Shore enchanted by the Three Graces
Enigma without End
Apparition of a Face and a Fruit-bowl on the shore
Impressions of Africa, 1938
photos taken at Dalí Retrospective 2012-2013 Centre Georges Pompidou-Paris