The extravagant art of Salvador Dalí
Dalí described himself as “an eminently theatrical painter”. Nowhere is his capacity for self-dramatization more evident than in his Teatre-Museu Dali, in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. The museum was created by Dalí himself, 15 years before his death, and it contains a wide panorama of his works, from early forays into impressionism, futurism, and cubism, and continuing on to the surrealistic creations on which his reputation is based.
When you visit the museum, you’re given a brochure that states,
“If we take into account the idiosyncrasy of Salvador Dalí, then perhaps we ought to recommend you not to follow a preconceived route. However, in spite of it a one way route has been laid out. It only has the intention of guiding the visitor from the entrance to the exit. It does not have, nor does it wish to have, any systematic function nor chronological sense.”
So, your own “idiosyncratic” tour can take you from a room designed to evoke Mae West, to small constructions and large scale assemblages, to paintings done with the finest of touches. It’s great fun, an adventure that makes you smile or shake your head at every turn.
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