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Salvador Dalí
Also known as: Salvador Dali, Salvador DALI
The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí is an autobiography by the artist Salvador Dalí published in 1942 by Dial Press. The book was written in French and translated into English by Haakon Chevalier. It covers his family history, his early life, and his early work up through the 1930s, concluding just after Dalí's return to Catholicism and just before the global outbreak of the Second World War. The book is over 400 pages long and contains numerous detailed illustrations. It has attracted both editorial praise as well as criticism, notably from George Orwell.
"Every morning when I awake," wrote the painter of the soft watches and burning giraffes, "the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali..."
— from Dali
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Dans la lignée des grandes monographies d'artistes du XXe siècle présentées au Grimaldi Forum Monaco, l'exposition de l'été 2019 sera consacrée à " Dalí, une histoire de la peinture " , du 6 juillet au 8 septembre 2019. L'exposition Dalí, une histoire de la peinture propose au public un parcours exceptionnel à travers la production artistique dalinienne. La sélection réunit des peintures, des dessins et des photographies datés de 1910 à 1983 et permet de découvrir les différentes étapes de création de l'artiste.0Elle n'offre pas seulement une vision rétrospective de l'oeuvre de Dalí mais révèle de quelle manière le peintre s'est lui-même inscrit dans l'histoire de la peinture du XXesiècle. Le public pourra ainsi découvrir les différentes étapes de sa création et reconnaître l'empreinte des différents peintres qui l'ont influencé et auxquels il rend hommage. Après des premières expérimentations, une constante dans la création de l'artiste sera particulièrement mise en exergue, celle du paysage et des avant-gardes européennes à savoir l'impressionnisme, le cubisme, la peinture métaphysique et l'abstraction.
Obra completa
1996
Don Juan (Spanish: [doŋ ˈxwan]), also known as Don Giovanni (Italian), is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) by Tirso de Molina. The play includes most of the elements found and later adapted in subsequent works, including the setting (Seville), the characters (Don Juan, his servant, his love interest, and her father, whom he kills), moralistic themes (honor, violence and seduction, vice and retribution), and the dramatic ending in which Don Juan dines with and is then dragged down to hell by the stone statue of the father he had previously slain. Tirso de Molina's play was subsequently adapted into numerous plays and poems, of which the most famous include a 1665 play, Dom Juan, by Molière; a 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, with music by Mozart and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte largely adapting Tirso de Molina's play; a satirical and epic poem, Don Juan, by Lord Byron; and Don Juan Tenorio, a romantic play by José Zorrilla. By linguistic extension, from the name of the character, "Don Juan" has become a generic expression for a womanizer, and stemming from this, Don Juanism is a non-clinical psychiatric descriptor.