SALVADOR DALÍ´S MUSEUM

Last Friday I was passing through the Girona town of Figueres
and I couldn't miss the opportunity to go to the museum of the great Salvador Dalí.

In my opinion and I think in the opinion of the rest of the world he´s the king of the artistic style known as Surrealism, but he also used others artistic styles like Cubism at the beginning of his career.

This style is sure one of the most difficult to understand, but don´t worry, now we are going to try to learn it better.

Surrealism don´t follow any rule It´s mainly based on dreams the artists have to run away from the reality or the mixture of thoughts and ideas at a certain moment.

Here are some photos about the exterior of this particular building:

And here there are some photos about the interior:

I´m going to talk about the most famous ones found in the museum:

-LA PERSISTENCIA DE LA MEMORIA- o -LOS RELOJES BLANDOS- (1931)
(The real one is in the MoMA museum in New York, it's an exactly copy)

It is said that Dali drew this picture while was eating camembert cheese, (which was a very soft cheese) like the watches of the picture.

Clocks, like memory, have been softened by the passage of time. They are perfectly plausible watches that keep marking the time.

-EL ESPECTRO DEL SEX-APPEAL- (1934)
In the Dali´s Theatre-Museum

One of the most decisive characteristics of the work is the presence of a kind of crutches.

 -AUTORRETRATO CON L'HUMANITÉ- (1923)

In the Dali´s Theatre-Museum 

One of Dalí's first works was Self-Portrait with L 'Humanité, painted when the artist was barely 19 years old. It is part of the cubist period of the painter.

-GALATEA DE LAS ESFERAS- (1952)

In the Dali´s Theatre-Museum

Dalí's wife, the Russian Elena Diakonova, better known as Gala, was ten years older than the painter. Dalí composed a series of paintings in his honor, of which Galatea of ​​the spheres is one of them. Painted in 1954, the painting accuses the painter's fascination with the decay theories of the atom.

*THE JEWEL  PART  OF THE MUSEUM*

He also made different jewels with precious metals and stones.

In my opinion I don´t know the rest this part is my favourite one of the museum of the artist.

When they tell you about the Dali jewelry museum, you think of rings, pendants, bracelets... but once you see it, to be impressed is little.

-EL OJO DEL TIEMPO- (1949)

Platinum; Natural rubies (corundum), irregular fragment rounded, polished; Diamonds, baguette size (rectangular), brilliant cut (round) and 8/8, 0.5 to 3.5 mm in diameter, approximately; Enamel (on the dial); Movado watch.

-EL LAGO DEL CISNE- (1959)

18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths); Natural emeralds (beryl) (15), irregular, polished fragments; small raw crystals and small carved crystals (mounted upside down); Natural sapphire (corundum) (1), rectangular emerald size (modified); Aquamarine (beryl) (1), trapezoid size; Diamonds, baguette size, brilliant cut (round) and 8/8; Aquamarine (beryl), polished base plate of raw ore; Yellowish beryl, raw mineral from the bottom.

-LA CRUZ DEL ANGEL- (1960)
14 Kt yellow gold (583 thousandths) (stone mount); Platinum forming the spins; Natural citrine (quartz) (1), emerald (rectangular) size of approximately 78 x 62 x 46 mm; Diamonds, brilliant cut (round), approximately 1.0 to 2.7 mm in diameter; Red coral, branches forming the cross and extended by the base; Lapis lazuli, approximately 87 mm diameter ball, and irregular blocks of polished flat faces, at the base; Zinc sulphide (sphalerite) raw mineral, at the base; With the intervention of Salvador Dalí: Oil and liquid amber on virgin gold sculpture; With motor mechanism with reducer that acts by moving the spins.

-EL ELEFANTE ESPACIAL- (1961)

18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths); Natural emeralds (beryl) (3), drop size, approximately 10 to 18 mm; Natural rubies (corundum) (9), drop size, approximately 4 to 8 mm; Diamonds (2), approximately 2 mm in diameter; Aquamarine (beryl), raw material crystal, embossed and polished (on the elephant), approximately 18 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm; Aquamarine (beryl), large crystal of raw material forming the base, approximately 12 x 33 x 17 cm; Omega watch with reference 440.

-DAFNE- (1967)
18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths); 14 Kt yellow gold (583 thousandths) (in the pearl part); Topaz (1), emerald size (rectangular), approximately 96 x 75 x 50 mm; Pearl (1), irregular (baroque), approximately 25 x 20 x 17 mm; Diamonds, brilliant cut (round), 3 mm in diameter, and baguette cut, approximately 2 to 3 mm; Natural emeralds (beryl), mixed size (round and perilla), approximately 2 to 4.5 mm; Polished sheet of fossilized wood, forming the bottom; With the intervention of Salvador Dalí: Oil on a "V" shaped gold plate.

-PAX VOBISCUM- (1968)
18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths) (outside); Gold leaf (inside); Platinum forming the rays; Natural citrine (quartz) (1), fantasy size (heptagonal), approximately 80 x 58 x 43 mm; Peridots (olivines), mixed size (oval), 9 x 7 mm, on average; Diamonds, brilliant cut (round), approximately 1 to 3 mm in diameter; With the intervention of Salvador Dalí: Oil on wood panel, 1964; With motor mechanism with reducer that acts by moving the citrine: Synchron motor.

-DELFINES Y SIRENAS- (1969)
18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths); Aquamarines (beryl), mixed size (oval), approximately 7 x 5 mm; Red coral, polished branches forming the figures; Diamonds, brilliant cut (round) and 8/8, (very small, in the teeth of dolphins and coral figures); Calcite, piece of raw material forming the bottom; Rock crystal (quartz), piece of raw material forming the base; Beryls (about 31 loose pieces), rounded and polished fragments, blue, green-blue, yellow and pink.

-LA FLOR PSICODÉLICA- (1970)
18 kt yellow gold (750 thousandths). On the floor; Suspended stones (92), mixed size (oval and round), from 8.0 to 11.0 mm, approximately; Blue stones: Natural sapphire (corundum), Natural spinel, Aquamarine (beryl); Yellow stones: Zircon; Pink stones: Spin it natural, Garnet; Red stones: Spin it natural, Garnet; In the pot: Natural spins (and some ruby), raw crystals; Lapis lazuli, polished plates; With motor mechanism with reducer that acts by rotating the plant: Synchron motor .