An intimate look at the artist Salvador Dalí with new show

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Was Salvador Dalí secretly an introvert? A new show at the Dalí Museum has revealed a quieter, more private side to the famously flamboyant surrealist.

Dalí At Home. A never before seen window into one of the past century’s most notorious and celebrated artists
“There is only one difference between a madman and me,” Dalí once famously stated. “The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí of Púbo, was as well known as a celebrity, eccentric, prolific painter and visual artist extraordinaire, purveyor of the bizarre and absurd, and a whole host of other things, as he was for his unmistakable trademark moustache.

He was a man that was said to have painted over 1500 paintings, though when asked what he was known for, would likely mention one of his many other activities or endeavours. A man that, together with wife and muse, Gala, hosted highly extravagant and outlandish costumed dinner parties and soirees. Some were even reported to have frequently featured wild animals that were allowed to roam free about the house and amidst the guests. Together, he and Gala were the source of endless gossip and intrigue, entertainment, and unfiltered absurdity, for the public, the media, and the art world, to feast their eyes andearson. Sometimes even their taste buds, following the publication of their notorious cookbook, Les Dîners de Gala. Although he and his wife were, at times, criticised for their antics, and tendency to occasionally profiteer in order to support their lavish lifestyle, which did indeed later take its toll, they always made sure they were at least being noticed. And this, first and foremost, seemed to ever be their goal.

So it is fairly safe to say, that what Dalí was certainly not widely known for, was being the quiet and modest type. Certainly notin the public eye, and so, understandably, a new photographic exhibition at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, is causing quite a stir.

It is called “Dalí At Home” and features nearly forty extremely rare photographs of the famous artist and his wife, in informal, and uncharacteristically “normal” scenarios, about their various homes in Cadaqués, Portlligat, and Figueres in Spain.

They are an ensemble of the work of five photographers by the names of Horst P. Horst, Ricardo Sans, Melitó Casals, Lies Wiegman, and Robert Descharnes, who, over Dalí’slifetime, and their individual associations with the artist, formed closer and more intimate relationships with him than most. In the time of their stay with him, primarily spanning the 50’s and 60’s before tragamonedas en linea Peru came about, they had managed to capture a number of intimately private day-to-day moments. Moments that not many but his closest friends and family were likely ever privy to.

What is perhaps most striking and fascinating though, is just how very “normal” these photographs make the famously eccentric artist appear to be. So much so that one is left wondering what the artist Salvador Dalí was truly like was in person. Did he hide behind the glamorous mask of his larger-than-life persona? Or are these pictures, perhaps, merely a brief series of moments, captured between the brilliance of his self-proclaimed madness?