Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides

Accession Number
1981/2.110.9

Title
Antiombrelle à atomiseurs de liquides

Artist(s)
Salvador Dali

Artist Nationality
Spanish (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1975

Medium & Support
drypoint etching, lithograph, screenprint and collage on paper

Dimensions
30 5/16 in x 21 15/16 in (76.99 cm x 55.72 cm)

Credit Line
Anonymous Gift

Subject matter
This work was part of Salvador Dalí's 1975 Imaginations and Objects of the Future portfolio. It contained ten prints with an introductory text by the artist that discussed the project's focus on new technologies' ability to create an alternate universe, especially through holograms. 
In this work, Dalí combines imagery to represent a Surrealist scene of futuristic sun bathing. To the right, the collaged image is a part of his earlier 1941 painting "Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon" (Dalí Theatre-Museum). The opaque imagery of grilling bacon and sun bathing creates a humerous and hideous image.

Physical Description
This print has a central image of a nude woman, depicted in blue, with long yellow hair, holding an orange, red, and green umbrella. To her right, there is another umbrella, with an orange handle and a collaged canopy. There are a number of line drawings and text (mirrored) around the second umbrella. To the right, there is a collaged face. At the bottom of the print is a blue sea and a drawing in red of a sailboat. The print is signed (l.r.) and numbered (l.l.) in pencil.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Additional Object Classification(s)
Mixed Media

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
Surrealism
Surrealist
bathing beaches
boat
face
modern and contemporary art
sailboats
self-portraits
umbrella
umbrellas
women (female humans)

3 Related Resources

Spanish Avant-Garde
(Part of 2 Learning Collections)
Surrealism
(Part of 3 Learning Collections)
W19 McAdams - SPANISH 368 - The Spanish Avant-Garde and Technology
(Part of: Resources Made by Isabel Engel)

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