Homage to Newton
Homage to Newton
Bronze, brown patina, height: 35 cm excluding marble base, limited edition of 350 copies, signed.
With this sculpture, Dalí pays tribute to Isaac Newton, the discoverer of gravity. Inspired by a motif in his painting Phosphene of Laporte (1932), he pierced the figure with two openings: an empty head as a sign of openness, a body without organs as a symbol of the depersonalization of science into its mere name. Dalí plays with his leitmotif of hard and soft by emphasizing the bones and distorting the anatomy. In 1986, the work was erected as a monument, almost five meters high, in a plaza in Madrid dedicated to Dalí by the King of Spain – it remains there to this day.
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SPAIN, 1904 - 1989
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí, born in Figueras in 1904, is considered one of the leading minds of surrealism and one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Around 1929 he found his own style, which explored the world of the unconscious and dreams. With melting clocks and burning giraffes, he created iconic images that show his technical skills in an old-masterly style. Common themes in Dalí's works are intoxication, fever and religion, with his wife Gala often playing a central role. After an eventful life that took him from Spain to the USA and back to Europe, Dalí died in 1989, leaving a lasting legacy in the art world.