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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Great Wall by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong, Image 1.

    Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong

    Great Wall, 2004

    Dye coupler print

    24 x 44 in (60.96 x 111.76 cm)

  2. Ground Zero, New York City, Sept. 12 by Peter Turnley, Image 1.

    Peter Turnley

    Ground Zero, New York City, Sept. 12, 2001

    Archival pigment print

    20 x 24 in (50.8 x 60.96 cm)

  3. Big Fish Game by Chris Kakas, Image 1.

    Chris Kakas

    Big Fish Game, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    29.375 x 22 in (74.61 x 55.88 cm)

  4. Greek Sea by Robert Freimark, Image 1.

    Robert Freimark

    Greek Sea, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

    22.375 x 30.125 in (56.83 x 76.52 cm)

  5. Flood by Nicholas Monro, Image 1.

    Nicholas Monro

    Flood, 1972

    Screenprint on paper

    27.5 x 40.125 in (69.85 x 101.92 cm)

  6. These & Those (Brown) by Noemi Smilansky, Image 1.

    Noemi Smilansky

    These & Those (Brown), 1969

    Etching on paper

    26.8125 x 22.25 in (68.1 x 56.52 cm)

  7. Christ and Ministers in the Garden by McKendree Robbins Long, Image 1.

    McKendree Robbins Long

    Christ and Ministers in the Garden, 1965

    Oil on canvas

    39.375 x 39.375 in (100.01 x 100.01 cm)

  8. Vielle Courtisane à la Fenêtre by Georges Rouault, Image 1.

    Georges Rouault

    Vielle Courtisane à la Fenêtre, 1937

    Aquatint on paper

    11.75 x 8.5 in (29.85 x 21.59 cm)

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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.