1994 Salvadore Dali Poster, The Pharmacist of Ampurdan Seeking Absolutely Nothing, 1936, Surrealism, gallery exhibition, wall art decor
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1994 Salvadore Dali Poster, The Pharmacist of Ampurdan Seeking Absolutely Nothing, 1936, Surrealism, gallery exhibition, wall art decor
This original Salvadore Dali exhibition poster is from the Louisiana in Copenhagen, Denmark, for an exhibition in 1994 featuring "From Van Gogh to Gerhard Richter" important works from the Folkwang Museum in Essen. This poster shows the surrealist work "The Pharmacist of Ampurdan Seeking Absolutely Nothing" from 1936.
Dimensions: 20 in x 30 in (51 cm x 76 cm)
Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. He moved to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents.
Though Dali's image of him is specter-like, the busy-about-nothing pharmacist was a real person, accurately depicted. Here he could well be a statue, like one of the mysterious monuments in the paintings of Paul Delvaux and Georges de Chirico, contemporaries who certainly influenced Dali. The landscape is the Ampurdan plain as it appears in so many of Dali's paintings, with its long perspectives and surrounding hills. As so often in his work, the title serves to undermine the content of the picture itself, making it irrational. Dali pursued a similar strategy with regard to framing, insisting on putting pictures that were often quite small into ornate, heavy, old-fashioned frames that might initially deceive the spectator into believing that the subject would be treated in an equally traditional style.
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