PResentation on Dali and psychologists of the early 1900s

1. Salvador Dalí
“Intelligence
without
ambition is a
bird without
wings.”

2. Salvador Dalí
•Born in Spain.
•Creates a method of painting called
the “Paranoiac-Critical Method” writes
about it, but it doesn’t make any sense.
•Obsessed with his dreams.
•Obsessed with film.
•Obsessed with ants.
•Obsessed with obsessions.
•Mortally frightened of grasshoppers.

3. Salvador Dalí
The Persistence of Memory
1931
Oil on canvas

4. Salvador Dalí
The Persistence of Memory
1931
Oil on canvas

5. Salvador Dalí
The Persistence of Memory
1931
Oil on canvas

6. Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí frequently
described his paintings as
“hand painted dream
photographs.” He based this
seaside landscape on the cliffs
in his home region of Catalonia,
Spain. The ants, melting clocks,
and large “creature” near the
center are all rooted in Dalí’s
imagination, although this last
object has frequently been
interpreted as a self-portrait.
Its long eyelashes seem insect-
like; what may or may not be a
tongue oozes from its nose like
a fat snail from its shell.

7. Salvador Dalí
Dalí’s Intentions:
Time is the theme here, from
the melting watches to the
decay implied by the swarming
ants. Mastering what he called
“the usual paralyzing tricks of
eye-fooling,” Dalí painted this
work with “ a furious level of
precision,” but only, he said,
“to systematize confusion and
thus to help discredit
completely the world of
reality.”
There is, however, a nod to the
real: the distant golden cliffs are
those on the coast of Catalonia,
Dalí’s home.

8. The Persistence of Memory - CATS

9. The Persistence of Memory – COOKIE
MOSTER

10. The Persistence of Memory - Simpsons

11. The Persistence of Memory – SpongeBob

12. Salvador Dalí 1952
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

13. Salvador Dalí 1952
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

14. COMPARE!
1952 1931

15. Sleep
1937
oil on canvas

16. Sleep
1937
oil on canvas
Dalí felt that sleep was a waste
of time, but it was the place
where he would gather much of
the imagery he used in his
artwork.
He tried a method where he
would sit with a key in one hand,
poised above a metal plate
placed on the floor, and let
sleep take him. As soon as he
began to slumber in earnest, the
key would slip from his fingers
and clang against the plate –
waking him immediately.
The imagery flowing through his
mind could then be harvested,
and used in his artwork.

17. Sleep
1937
oil on canvas

18. Sleep
1937
oil on canvas

19. Sigmund
Freud
Sigmund Freud explored the human mind
more thoroughly than any other who
became before him, as he believed our
actions and thoughts were the result of a
deeper part of our minds that we were not
in control of.
He founded the practice called
“psychoanalysis,” a form of therapy meant
for treating the mentally ill. More than
anything, Freud was interested in
discovering the root of human behavior.
Why people desire certain things, or
commit certain acts: all of which he
theorized were the result of sexuality
(libido), repressed memories, repressed
desires, and our animal instinct.
While Freud was incorrect about pretty
much all of his theories (most of which
were fueled by cocaine and nicotine), he
truly reinvented how we study the mind.

20. Freud believed that the mind was made up of three main parts:
Id: The most raw and instinctual part of ourselves that operates
according to the ‘pleasure principal.’ The Id is not concerned with morals
or ethics—only pleasure.
Ego: Acts on realistic principals. The Ego tries to balance between the
two extremes, seeking both pleasure and morality.
Superego: Operating on moral perfection, the Superego is the most
ideal form of the self that we wish we could be. It is our conscience, or
inner voice of morality.

21. Freud believed that the mind was made up of three main parts:
Id: The most raw and instinctual part of ourselves that operates
according to the ‘pleasure principal.’ The Id is not concerned with morals
or ethics—only pleasure.
Ego: Acts on realistic principals. The Ego tries to balance between the
two extremes, seeking both pleasure and morality.
Superego: Operating on moral perfection, the Superego is the most
ideal form of the self that we wish we could be. It is our conscience, or
inner voice of morality.

22. Freud had a student
named Carl Jung, who
was determined to
refine Freud’s theories
of the human psyche.
Jung believed the mind
was far more complex,
with a tapestry of
different parts, all
working in unison to
create our individual
identity.
Moreover, Jung
believed in something
he called…

23. THE COLLECTIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
The term collective consciousness
refers to the condition of the subject
within the whole of society, and how
any given individual comes to view
her/himself as a part of any given
group. The term has specifically
been used by social
theorists/psychoanalysts like
Durkheim, Althusser, and Jung to
explain how an each individual of
society comes to identify with a
larger group / society.
Jung took this idea a step further,
claiming that we were all connected
through this collective unconscious. If
we’re all icebergs…then the collective
unconscious would be the ocean we’re
floating in.

24. Jung believed that archetypes are models of people, behaviors or
personalities.
The Self: All parts of consciousness unified, the sum of all the separate
parts.
The Shadow: Similar to Freud’s Id, which is only concerned with sexual
and life instincts.
The Anima / Animus: Respectively the female / male influences on our
personality
The Persona: Based on the Latin word for “mask,” this is how we
present ourselves to the world.
The Father: Authority figure; stern; powerful.
The Mother: Nurturing; comforting.
The Child: Longing for innocence; rebirth; salvation.
The Wise Old Man/Woman: Guidance; knowledge; wisdom.
The Hero: Champion; defender; rescuer.
The Maiden: Innocence; desire; purity.
The Trickster: Deceiver; liar; trouble-maker.
God: Represents our need to understand the universe as a meaningful
place with reason behind it.

25. Team Freud or Team Jung
Mankind is forever torn
between our primal instincts
for pleasure and the
morality that we have
‘learned’ as we grow up.
We are all in competition
with each other
Humans are the result of archetypes
that we have invented and refined
according to the way we relate to
each other socially.
We are all connected with one
another.

26. “The subconscious has a symbolic language that is truly a
universal language, for it speaks with the vocabulary of the
great vital constants, sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical
notion of the enigma (a mystery) of space—these vital
constants are universally echoed in every human. To
understand an aesthetic (the way something looks, standard
of beauty)) picture, training in the appreciation is necessary,
cultural and intellectual preparation. For Surrealism the only
prerequisite (a requirement before something) is a
receptive (to receive intellectually/an idea) and intuitive
(honest, intuition, follow your instinct) human being.”
-Salvador Dali, writing on
the Paranoiac Critical Method
Where do you think Dalí
woud stand in this debate?

27. Debate Results

28. “The subconscious has a symbolic language that is truly a
universal language, for it speaks with the vocabulary of the great
vital constants, sexual instinct, feeling of death, physical notion of
the enigma (mystery or a riddle) of space—these vital constants
are universally echoed in every human.
To understand an aesthetic (how something looks)
picture, training in the appreciation is necessary, cultural and
intellectual preparation. For Surrealism the only prerequisite
(something you need before you do something else) is a
receptive (to receive mentally/an idea) and intuitive(good
instincts) human being.”
-Salvador Dali, writing on
the Paranoiac Critical Method
Where do you
think Dalí woud
stand in this
debate?

29. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War
1940
Oil on canvas
100 cm × 79 cm
(25.2 in × 31.1 in)

30. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War

31. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War

32. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War
1940
This painting was done in California at the end of the year 1940;
the horrible face of war, its eyes filled with infinite death, was
much more a reminiscence of the Spanish Civil War than of the
Second World War, which, at the time, had not yet provided a
cortege of frightful images capable of impressing Dali. He himself
wrote in The Secret Life: "I was entering a period of rigor and
asceticism which was going to dominate my style, my thoughts,

33. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War
1940
and my tormented life. Spain on fire would light up this drama of
the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a holocaust
to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by moral
and artistic anxieties…. At one feel swoop, from the middle of the
Spanish cadaver, springs up. Half-devoured by vermin and
ideological worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a
cathedral filled with the white dynamite of hatred

34. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War
1940
Bury and Unbury ! Disinter and Inter ! In order to unbury again !
Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that impatient
Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering; of
making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and
resurrecting. In was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume
tradition and to profane everything in order to be dazzled anew by
all the treasures that the land was hiding in its entrails.” - Dalí

35. Salvador Dalí
La Cara de la Guerra
Visage of War
1940
The horror of this picture is further increased by the charred brown
tonalities which dominate its atmosphere
Finally, Dali has stressed that it was the only work where one
could see the true imprint of his hand on the canvas (at the lower
right).

36. "The two most energetic motors that make the artistic
and superfine brain of Salvador Dali function are,
first, libido , or sexual instinct, and, second, the
anguish of death," affirms the painter; "not a single
minute of my life passes without the sublime Catholic,
apostolic, and Roman specter of death
accompanying me even in the least important of my
most subtle and capricious fantasies."

37. Madonna of
Port Lligat
1949
12’x8’

38. Madonna of
Port Lligat
1949
12’x8’

39. Port Lligat details

40. Salvador Dalí Aphrodisiac Jacket
Salvador Dalí wearing what
looks to be a version of his
Aphrodisiac Jacket.
The original Aphrodisiac
jacket was created in 1936
and is actually a dinner jacket
with 85 glasses of Crème de
Menthe containing tiny straws
attached to it. In order to
accentuate the Surreal nature
of the garment, each glass
was to contain a dead fly
floating in the liqueur.
“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”

41. Salvador Dalí
Atomic Cross
1952

42. Salvador Dalí
Christ of Saint John
of the Cross
1951
Currently housed by a museum in Scotland…but
in 2006 the Spanish government is said to have
offered £80 million ($127 million USD) for the
painting, but the offer was turned down.

45. Salvador Dalí
La separation de
l'atome
The Splitting of the
Atom
1947
Sometimes called…
Dematerialization
near the Nose of
Nero

46. Salvador Dalí
Atomic Gala
1952

47. Salvador Dalí
Atomic Leda
1949

48. Dali imagines that protons and neutrons (and
consequently the atom) are angelic elements because
in the celestial bodies, he explains, "there are
residues of substances; it is for this reason that
certain beings appear to me so close to angels
such as Raphael. Raphael's temperature is like
that almost chilly air of spring, which in turn is
exactly that of the Virgin and of the rose." And he
adds solemnly, "I need an ideal of hyperaesthetic
purity. More and more I am preoccupied by a
idea of chastity. For me, it is an essential
condition of the spiritual life."

49. “It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures”
Atomic Leda
Sketch!!

50. Spain
by Salvador
Dalí
1938

51. Autumn
Cannibalism
By Salvador
Dalí
1937

52. The
Hallucinogenic
Toreador
by Salvador
Dalí
1970

53. Salvador Dalí
Atomic Idyll
1945

54. Idyll

55. Salvador Dalí
Illumined Pleasures

56. Salvador Dalí and Phillipe
Halsman