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Study for the Dream Sequence in Spellbound by Salvador Dal\u00ed (1945). <\/em><\/p>\n

A new exhibition<\/a> exploring Salvador Dal\u00ed’s connections with cinema begins at Tate Modern this weekend. Interesting seeing Dal\u00ed’s gradual reappraisal by the art establishment after years of dismissal but then it is nearly twenty years after his death.<\/p>\n

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One welcome result of this event is an interview<\/a> in the Tate’s online magazine with film director Jos\u00e9 Montes Baquer whose Dal\u00ed collaboration, Impressions of Upper Mongolia, Hommage to Raymond Roussel<\/em>, I wrote about last year<\/a>. This is the only substantial discussion of this curious film I’ve seen anywhere so it’s fascinating to discover that it came about as a result of Dal\u00ed urinating on a pen.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIn this clean and aseptic country, I have been observing how the urinals in the luxury restrooms of this hotel have acquired an entire range of rust colours through the interaction of the uric acid on the precious metals that are astounding. For this reason, I have been regularly urinating on the brass band of this pen over the past weeks to obtain the magnificent structures that you will find with your cameras and lenses. By simply looking at the band with my own eyes, I can see Dal\u00ed on the moon, or Dal\u00ed sipping coffee on the Champs \u00c9lys\u00e9es. Take this magical object, work with it, and when you have an interesting result, come see me. If the result is good, we will make a film together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The interview also includes a few more tantalising glimpses of the film’s images and in the same magazine there’s a piece by Roy Disney<\/a> remembering Dal\u00ed’s encounter with his uncle, Walt.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Ballard on Dal\u00ed<\/a>
\n\u2022 Fantastic art from Pan Books<\/a>
\n\u2022 Penguin Surrealism<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Surrealist Revolution<\/a>
\n\u2022 The persistence of DNA<\/a>
\n\u2022 Salvador Dal\u00ed\u2019s apocalyptic happening<\/a>
\n\u2022 The music of Igor Wakh\u00e9vitch<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dal\u00ed Atomicus<\/a>
\n\u2022 Las Pozas and Edward James<\/a>
\n\u2022 Impressions de la Haute Mongolie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Study for the Dream Sequence in Spellbound by Salvador Dal\u00ed (1945). A new exhibition exploring Salvador Dal\u00ed’s connections with cinema begins at Tate Modern this weekend. Interesting seeing Dal\u00ed’s gradual reappraisal by the art establishment after years of dismissal but then it is nearly twenty years after his death. One welcome result of this event … Continue reading “Dal\u00ed and Film”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,44,18],"tags":[1511,1478,1054,87],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-film","category-painting","category-surrealism","tag-edward-james","tag-igor-wakhevitch","tag-raymond-roussel","tag-salvador-dali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}