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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Wor(l)d -- No Place, from the portfolio "Utopia" by Reny Rao, Image 1.

    Reny Rao

    Wor(l)d -- No Place, from the portfolio "Utopia", 1989

    Intaglio and screenprint on paper

    22.5 x 14.875 in (57.15 x 37.78 cm)

  2. Spiral Landscape by Jeffrey Maron, Image 2.

    Jeffrey Maron

    Spiral Landscape, 1982

    Etched copper alloy with polychrome oxides

    12.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 in (31.75 x 19.05 x 16.51 cm)

  3. Sinclair by Harvey Breverman, Image 1.

    Harvey Breverman

    Sinclair, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    15.25 x 22.25 in (38.74 x 56.52 cm)

  4. Untitled by Doug Warner, Image 1.

    Doug Warner

    Untitled, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    11.25 x 7.625 in (28.58 x 19.37 cm)

  5. Paper Piece II by Richard Howard Hunt, Image 1.

    Richard Howard Hunt

    Paper Piece II, 1978

    Handmade paper

    16.25 x 21 in (41.28 x 53.34 cm)

  6. Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown, Leland by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown, Leland, 1973

    Gelatin silver print

    17 x 11 in (43.18 x 27.94 cm)

  7. Carl Schwartz

    Rock Garden II, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22 in (38.1 x 55.88 cm)

  8. Black Barney by Robert A. Nelson, Image 1.

    Robert A. Nelson

    Black Barney, 1970

    Pencil, color pencil, and collage on paper

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About the artist

Salvador Dalí

Spanish

1904-1989

Spanish painter. Specialized in surrealism. Art was a part of Dali’s life from a very young age, and his parents encouraged his artistic tendencies by enrolling him in art school in 1916, and only a year later Dali’s father organized Dali’s first art exhibition of charcoal pieces at their family home. He attended Academia de San Fernando in Madrid where he was influenced by Metaphysics, Cubism, and Classical and Baroque painters such as Raphael and Velazquez (dude his signature mustache came from). Dali discovered Surrealism in Paris painting alongside Picasso and meeting the poet Paul Eluard, sculptor Miro, and painter Rene Magritte. Dali surrealistic paintings developed under three themes: sexual symbolism, ideographic imagery, and man’s universe and sensations. By 1929, Dali underwent his first Surrealistic period and utilized Freud's psychoanalytic theories by accessing his subconscious through what he called the “paranoiac-critical method.” He met and later married Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova, who was formerly the wife of Surrealist poet Paul Eluard. She was his muse, and counterbalance to his eccentricities. Due to his apolitical stance, Dali was expelled from the Spanish Surrealist movement at the onset of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. He continued to exhibit internationally in London, and, during World War II, in New York at the MoMA. Dali continued to paint 19 large canvases that displayed themes that were scientific, historical or religious in nature during his “Nuclear Mysticism” 15 year period. With the opening of the Teatro-Museo Dali in 1974 began Dali’s slow decline from losing his collection rights, developing motor disorder, and losing his wife in only two years after that led to a quiet death at the age of 84 in his hometown of Figueres of heart failure.