Speaking of Salvador Dali is impossible not to Elena Dimitrievna Diakonova, or simply Gala, the muse of many artists and therefore a current and a time, surrealism. In 1929, Gala, and married to Paul Eluard, along with other artists, went to visit a novice painter. The ease of this beautiful and unpredictable woman made an impression in this overwhelming Catalan painter, who was none other than Dalí himself, who amazed, began to long for so possess the looks of which later became his muse and inspiration.
Such madness would be the Gala, eleven years older, I woke up, that in attempting to speak, the painter was surprised by uncontrollable fits of laughter that literally forced him to writhe on the floor. Indeed, the day he declared his love, he the same scene. He suffered and laughed, kneeling at his feet, he heard from the lips of his beloved "... my little boy, no never be apart ..." .
Later, he thus refers to her muse: " Gala has given me, in the true sense of the word the structure was missing in my life. I was no more than a sack full of holes, soft and fuzzy, always looking for a crutch. Gala bound, I found a spine, making love to her I have completed my skin. So far my sperm is lost due to masturbation thrown into anything, I recovered and Gala has revived me. At first I thought she was going to devour me, but on the contrary, has taught me to eat real. By signing my paintings as 'Gala-Dali' I only name a truly existential because it would not exist without my twin Gala ".
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Madness painter completely subsided with the arrival of Gala. Dalí was a man many geniuses disorganized, vain, neurotic, and she put reins on the impetus that they were hopelessly pounding. Undoubtedly, a strong and dominant woman, "violent and sterile" as André Breton called it in his dictionary of Surrealism, which could act both as protective and saving Salvador Dalí's own, or be the same femme fatale , Youthful seductive and bon vivant, fond of most shameless adultery.
Tired known infidelities Gala, which Indeed, Dali did not disapprove, but quietly encouraged Candaules given traits similar to voyeurism, paraphilia, which had the painter. From this, we need a night in 1929, the painter found out only because Gala 'cinema', Dalí was so excited with his memory jerking ending. Released this sexual instinct, she began her work "The Great Masturbator " where there is another to himself as protagonist and where in addition to observing many elements of sexual connotation, you see a white lily, which represents purity, as Dalí defined masturbation as sex purer. Also noting " Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening" , we can see his muse Gala in all its glitz, levitating on a rock floating in the thin Tues The tranquility succumbs to the ferocity of tigers (phallic symbolism) that flow one after the other in the air from the mouth of a fish which in turn emerges from the grenade.
Salvador Dali - The Great Masturbator
Salvador Dalí - Dream Caused by the Flight
of a bee around a pomegranate one second before awakening
Even with all the vagaries of both Gala and the Dalí himself, both in marriage and wanted to join back in 1949, the eccentric couple visited the Vatican to make a unique gift to Pope Pius XII: a canvas where Gala transmuted into Virgin, appeared full of glory surrounded by angels. Taking advantage of this opportunity, they dared to ask the Pope for special permission to marry. It was known that such a marriage was not feasible given that Gala had married by the church with his first love, Paul Eluard, who was still alive. Only married until 1958 and beyond, the love affair fans that remained together, as they said when they met Gala, was a continuous swing of scandals and controversies.
Dali In 1982, attempts suicide by dehydration, a prey to utter desolation, after the death of his Gala at age 89. By not achieve its purpose, reiterates its desire to "let die" consecutively taking occasional form bursts of creation as the Gala-Dali, however, his vivid madness soon darkens into a deep depression. Dies at age 84 in 1989.
was only this passion almost pathological, this obsession, emotional dependency and the frantic desire of rapport with his muse-wife to get your joy and salvation. It is said that when Dennis Gabor, inventor of the holographic technique, visited Dali, he told him: " I would like to make a hologram of Gala, break it into pieces and eat it to feel full of it, as in communion ... ".
Clearly Gala Dalí found on a spur of provocation and constant creativity. The influence of a woman ahead of her time was nuanced to perfection with the life of an artist who not only shocked by his work, but their mere presence, his gestures, his mannerisms, even his ineffable mustache and eyebrows of Crazy inquisitor. A boy genius who once dared egomaniac compared with Nietzsche, saying "society play the game to hide the seriousness of his madness ..." and that he seemed to make the dream world its reality, living in the dream erotic lucid.
