Research for the Chicago exhibition "Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears" led to new discoveries about the famed surrealist artist — including the mysterious origins of the large-scale painting "Visions of Eternity."Caitlin Haskell and Jennifer Cohen were stumped.
Dalí was known for recurring visual motifs — think flaming giraffes, deflated pianos, and, of course, melting clocks — but this painting didn't seem to have any visual companions, said Cohen. ," which opened February 18 at the Art Institute. The show approaches Dalí's practice through contrasting themes of visibility and disappearance: As the prolific Spanish artist became a leading figure in the surrealist movement during the 1930s, he repeated themes of vanishing, from wispy figures and optical illusions to hidden portraits masked by paint.
Haskell and Cohen worked in tandem with the museum's paintings conservators Allison Langley and Katrina Rush, who undertook technical analysis of the artworks, revealing insights into some of Dalí's works that greatly shift their meaning.
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