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During his years in America Dal’ did not limit his activities
solely to painting. He designed advertisements, wrote an autobiography,
worked on cinema and designed for theatre and theatre and ballet
productions. In 1939 he wrote the scenario and designed the scenery and
costumes for the ballet Bacchanale, followed by Labyrinth, a ballet
based on the myth of Theseus and Ariade. Dal’ was inspired by Wagner's
famous opera Tristan und Isolde and wrote Mad Tristan which was
premiered on 15 December 1944 and performed by the International Ballet,
choreographed by Leonide Massine. This ballet was followed by
Sentimental Colloquy, Cafe de Chinitas, The Three-Cornered Hat, and
finally the ballet Gala, dedicated to his wife.
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ABOUT THE ART PERIOD: Dali
sublimated his life in his art of
painting. Relying on great craftsmanship, acquired in all sorts of art
experiments, he lifted surrealism, in an inimitable self-willed manner,
to exceptional heights. He photographed, as it were, associatively what
was enacted in his mind. Incited by, at the time, new psychological
insights he tried to fix his subconscious with images, and to visualize
his dreams in all their inscrutable symbolism. It was for this purpose
that he developed his famous "paranoid-critical" method. To us, one
dimensional mortal souls, only the paintings and other expressions
remain as fascinating witnesses to a literally unbelievably intense and
active life. Perhaps we are so drawn to them because not only do they
allow us to have a look inside Dali’s subconscious, but they also are a
mirror reflecting our own souls.
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