Dali's "Toreador"
It took me a long time to figure out which artist and art work I wanted
to
choose for this paper. A lot of paintings and sculptures caught my eye,
but
one painting really stood out among them all. The painting that I chose
was
Hallucinogenic Toreador by Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali. Dali started
this
very large *157.5 by 118 in) vertical surrealist painting in Port
Lligat in
1968 and finished it in 1970. It was purchased by Mr. And Mrs. Reynolds
for
the Salvador Dali Museum in Cleveland, to accompany many of his other
works
which had already been there. (weyers)
In this painting Dali repeated the image of the Venus De Milo many
times.
The largest two of the images make up a mans figure which looks like a
Toreador or bull fighter. (Mondadori) It also looks like the toreador's
coat
wrapping around much of the painting is partially made up of a very
abstract
picture of a dying bull, along with flies, shadows, and light. I found
that
this is not the first time that Dali has used the Venus De Milo in his
art
work. He also used it in a sculpture he made in 1936 where he used a
plaster
replica of the figure, and inserted drawers into her body and forehead.
It
was said that Deli first got the idea of painting a Toreador in the
Venus's
body when he envisioned the Toreador in the Venus's body in a picture
of the
venus on a box of pencils. (Art 20) the face and lips are on an angle
and
the right breast of the Venus makes up the Toreador's nose. The Venus's
gown
makes up the shirt and tie of the Toreador. Her stomach makes up his
chin,
and the right side of her face makes up his eye which seems to be
crying a
tear. It is thought that this tear is...
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