New Dali Exhibition at MoMA

*squeeeeee*

The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown will be featuring a Salvador Dali exhibition displaying not only his works on the canvas, but also his dabbling with the silver screen. Everyone forgets that he was also a madman in film as well, so this will be a special treat for me. It'll be interesting to see how his methods and techniques will be transcribed in other media, particularly film. And hopefully, I'll be able to handle seeing one of the most horrible scenes ever filmed which he's responsible for (of course he would be responsible for that), the scene in Un Chien Andalou where something happens to an eye and that's all I'm going to go into details with, I'll let you fill in the blanks yourself. (Thankfully, it really happens to a goat's eye, but still it makes you scream "I HATE YOU DALI!!")

"This exhibition brings together more than 100 works by Salvador Dalí (1904·89) including major paintings, photographs, drawings, and films to explore the central role of cinema in his work as both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation. Film was a passion for Dalí and cinematic vision became a model for his own work. The exhibition will display collaborations between Dalí and legendary filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, and the Marx Brothers alongside his paintings to show the way ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums. The exhibition will include some of the most provocative works of the early twentieth century including Un Chien Andalou, a film made with Buñuel, which features the almost unwatchable sequence of an eye being slit by a razor; L'Age d'Or, another collaboration with Buñuel and one of the landmarks of surrealist film; as well as such important paintings as The First Days of Spring and Illumined Pleasures. The exhibition will also consider Dalí as a consumer of popular culture, he loved the bizarre slapstick humor of Hollywood comedians, such as Harry Langdon, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and saw such mass entertainment as an antidote for what he perceived as the pretensions of high culture."