Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí, London, 1997, p.
But immediately that sex works only with extreme difficulty, you create fantastic music, architecture, visions, imperial invasions’ (Dalí quoted in I. The people who are not impotent make children, embryos, and nothing more. By the 1950s Dalí openly celebrated his own sexual difficulty in this respect, claiming that ‘all the great people who realise sensational achievements are impotent, Napoleon, everybody. The crutch is one of the most repeated images in Dalí’s work and was, for the artist, a perennial symbol of impotency that had comforted and inspired him since his childhood. In many images of the rhinoceros, therefore, the mighty armoured creature is accompanied by the figure of a virgin brandishing either a cross or a crutch. Its complimentary symbol, however, was the Virgin whom Dalí regarded as being both the target and the receptacle of the rhino’s virility. For Dalí too, the rhinoceros was an image of strength and virility that ultimately manifested itself in the phallic projection of its horn. In much Eastern mythology the rhino horn is widely believed to be a source of sexual potency. Following this it was, in the early part of the decade at least, to become an obsessive icon in his work. It had been around the time that Dalí painted Rhinocéros en désintégration in 1950 that Dalí had first been given a rhino horn by the poet Emmanuel Looten. Finkelstein, The Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí, Cambridge, 1998, p. The rhino’s hide, Dalí asserted, had ‘plenty of divine granulations’, and its horns, he had been delighted to discover, were ‘the only ones in the animal kingdom constructed in accordance with a perfect logarithmic spiral’ (Dalí quoted in H. For Dalí the rhinoceros was a ‘cosmic’ animal that belonged in the heavens - even more than the elephants of his famous painting The Temptation of Saint Anthony. This revelation, for Dalí, affirmed what he subsequently declared to be ‘the spirituality of all matter,’ and led to his embracing of an innate mysticism at the heart of existence – a mysticism which in turn began to manifest itself in his paintings through predominantly Roman Catholic imagery.Įmbroiled also in these concerns, was Dalí’s obsession throughout the early 1950s with the rhinoceros. The dawning of a new Nuclear age had prompted in him an appreciation of the innate immateriality of matter and an understanding of how, as Heraclitus had once explained, matter existed in a constant and mysterious state of flux and disintegration. Particle physics, the Atomic Bomb and scientific concepts of matter and anti-matter had awoken in Dalí a new concern with the nature of being in the post-war era. Centring on the image of a rhinoceros suspended in space and in the process of disintegrating under the mystical spell of a divine, heavenly being, the work is an invocation of the new personal form of mysticism that Dalí was to outline one year later in his ‘Mystical Manifesto’ of 1951. Print arrived and husband and I loved it.Īrtwork arrived yesterday - frame and picture look great together.Rhinocéros en désintégration is a remarkable watercolour painted by Salvador Dalí in 1950 that invokes several of the key themes in the artist’s work of the immediate post-war era. In the meantime, here are feedback posts from our past customers sharing their shopping experience.Īlways have great experience with your products. We’re currently collecting product reviews for this item. We Love What We Do and our Commitment to each Detail and Brush Stroke is Reflected in the Finished Product!.For Oil on Canvas Commissions, Please Allow for 2-3 Weeks for Commission of the Artwork.
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