Salvador Dalí

This August, the High Museum will present Salvador Dalí: The Late Work, the first major exhibition to reevaluate the last half of Dalí’s life following his conversion to Catholicism and his development of the concept of nuclear mysticism—blending faith and religious tradition with his interest in modern science and atomic physics.

Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain, and is remembered as one of the most controversial artists of the twentieth century. He was a leading figure of the Surrealist movement.

In 1941, the Museum of Modern Art in New York held Dalí’s first retrospective exhibition. In 1942 he published his autobiography “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí.” In 1974 he opened the Teatro-Museo in Figueres before a major retrospective debuted at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and then in London that same decade. He died in Figueres in 1989.

In a span of 60 years, the artist created more than 1,200 oil paintings, numerous drawings, sculptures, theatre and fashion designs, illustrations and writings.

With more than 40 paintings and a group of drawings, prints and other ephemera, the exhibition will explore Dalí’s fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism as well as his connections to celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning and Alice Cooper.

The exhibition will run August 7, 2010 through Jan 9, 2011.

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Also, stay tuned for Dalí Illustrates Dante’s Divine Comedy, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from April 10 to June 19, 2011. The exhibition will feature Dalí’s visual interpretations of Dante’s literary masterpiece.

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