Dali's 'Christ of St. John of the Cross' back on show at Kelvingrove Museum

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Detail of Christ of St John of the Cross by Dali.

GLASGOW.- One of Scotland’s favourite paintings, Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí, has returned to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. The seminal artwork is now back on show, hanging in its bespoke gallery on the first floor of the museum. The painting had been on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London for their exhibition Dalí/Duchamp, before it travelled to The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida as part of the exhibition tour. Painted in 1951 and purchased by the City of Glasgow in 1952, Christ of St John of the Cross continues to be one of the real draws for the million-plus people who visit Kelvingrove Museum each year. Before its recent travels, the painting hadn’t been on loan since 2010, when it was exhibited at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, USA. [More]

Conservators prepare Dali's 'Christ of St. John of the Cross' to go on loan

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Sophie Kostin Glasgow Museums unfits Dalis Christ of St John of the Cross in preparation for loan. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

GLASGOW.- One of Scotland’s favourite paintings, Christ of St John of the Cross by Salvador Dalí, which usually hangs in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, has come off display and is now being prepared to go on loan to the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It will return to Kelvingrove Museum in the summer of 2018. The painting will be one of the star attractions of an exhibition titled Dalí/Duchamp, opening on 7 October 2017. Sophie Kostin, Frames Conservator at Glasgow Museums, delicately unframed the iconic painting at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre before Suzanne Ross, Painting Conservator at Glasgow Museums, inspected the work in preparation for it being packed and transported to the Royal Academy. [More]

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By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Detail of Salvador Dali's "Christ of Saint John of the Cross" (1951)

Our fascination with the religious art of Salvador Dali began when our home was near the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and we could visit his "Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)" on a weekly basis. We'd spend many long hours there in spellbound reflection. Last year, we purchased our first Dali work in our new home of Indianapolis, a dealer print, and our eyes are also on a bronze sculpture at a downtown gallery. In Dali's Crucifixion works, Christ’s body is healthy and athletic as he levitates above us. It is that unique point of view, that makes "Christ of St John of the Cross" today's religious art news of the week. Fortunately, whether collecting online at eBay, or visiting a local museum, Dali's point of view is always close to home.

Where next for Dali's iconic Christ of St John of the Cross artwork

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World's envy: Painting when it returned to Glasgow from Atlanta in 2011. PA

GLASGOW---It was once voted Scotland's favourite painting and is widely regarded as one of the most famous yet controversial artworks in the world. Being such an iconic image to boot, it is the envy of the world and once again Salvador Dali's "Christ of St John of the Cross" will be loaned from its Glasgow home. Having resided at The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2011 the piece will leave Scotland again this year for the Royal Academy of Arts in London this September. There it will be unveiled in October and remain in place until the summer of 2018. It was bought for around £8200 in 1952 and was previously estimated to be worth more than £80m when the Spanish Government made a bid for it in 2006. [More]

Kelvingrove Museum announces Dali's 'Christ of St. John of the Cross' to go on loan

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Salvador Dali's "Christ of St John of the Cross" (1951) to go onloan through 2018

GLASGOW---One of Scotland’s favourite paintings, "Christ of St John of the Cross" by Salvador Dalí, which hangs in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is to go on loan. The iconic artwork will first travel to the Royal Academy of Arts in London in September 2017, before returning to Kelvingrove in the summer of 2018. It will then go on loan again to Auckland Castle, County Durham in autumn 2019 until spring 2020. Painted in 1951 and purchased by the City of Glasgow in 1952, "Christ of St John of the Cross" continues to be one of the real draws for the million plus people who visit Kelvingrove Museum each year. [More]

Salvador Dali's Jesus on offer at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale

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Salvador Dalí "Coeur-Sacré de Jésus (Sacred Heart of Jesus)" Painted in 1962.

LONDON---Salvador Dali’s 1962 painting "Coeur-Sacré de Jésus" is offered at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, 22 June at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. "Coeur-Sacré de Jésus" is estimated at £800,000-1,200,000. The oil on canvas offers an insight into Dali’s personal beliefs at the time. Dali’s spiritual awakening, which was derided by the Surrealists with whom he had been closely associated in the 1920s and 30s, has been read as a desire for peace following the social and psychological dislocation stemming from the Spanish Civil War and World War II. The painting was the result of a commission from a devout Catholic philanthropist, American businessman Harry G. John. [More]

Collector Spotlight: Salvador Dali Prints

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Gregory Disney-Britton stands beside his newly acquired print Christ of Gala (Crucifixion) by Salvador Dali on Japon paper with Embossed Signature, 1981 HC 60/75

This week, we acquired both a print of Salvador Dali's Christ of Gala (Crucifixion) and a poster of  William G. Wallace's 3:16 from our church, LifeJourney Church in Indianapolis. Collecting prints is a great opportunity to acquire works by modern masters, at lower costs. An original print is much different from a poster since it is taken from a matrix that the artist works on. A poster is generally a photo-mechanical reproduction of a work of art. So, our new print is not an original like Dali's Crucifixion, an oil on canvas painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but the reward of owning a print by a favorite master is still pretty wonderful.

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By Ernest & Gregory Disney-Britton

"The Ascension of Christ" (1958) by Salvador Dali

In 1958, when Christians thought we had seen every angle of religious art, and artists had abandoned it... Salvador Dali painted "The Ascension of Christ." The painting is part of a series of images that came to Dali in a dream in 1950. This week, as Christians celebrated Christs ascension to heaven, this painting stands out because of what it says about what Christians treasure. In 2016, our Christian homes are filled with our treasures, but how many of those treasures reflect a love of Christ?

Ascension Day is the 40th day of Easter - Art by Salvador Dalí

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"The Ascension of Christ" (1958) by Salvador Dali. Courtesy of the San Diego Museum of Art

Christians officially celebrate Christs ascension to heaven on this 40th day of Easter, or 39 days after Easter Sunday, and we've selected a work by Salvador Dali for today's celebration. A series of images of Christ came to Salvador Dali in a dream in 1950. One of these is "The Ascension of Christ" (1958) which combines two of Dali’s passions:  a mystic form of Catholicism and nuclear physics.  It is inspired by the nucleus of an atom, and the artist imagined ascent by Christ that unifies both heaven and earth. The sunflower-like corona of the atom overlaps the divine sphere of the Holy Spirit, symbolized by the dove with outstretched wings. The oil painting is in the Pérez Simón Collection at the San Diego Museum of Art.

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The “Covenant Eternal: Circumcision” (c. 1967) painting, part of the “Aliyah” series by Salvador Dalí. Photo: TIJS at Emory University.

Beginning with Abraham, Jews have always asked questions, and modern Jews even question the Biblical account of Abraham, but for the sake of argument, let's take it at face value. According to the Torah, when God told Abraham that he would destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham challenged God's decree asking "How could the master of justice not act justly?" When Abraham failed to meet the quota, these depraved cities were destroyed, but God felt it was the thought that counts, and rewarded Abraham's chutzpah in challenging God by making him the first Jew and giving him the "privilege" of circumcising himself and his sons. [link]

Little Known Jewish Art Series by Salvador Dalí

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The “Thou hast laid me” painting, part of the “Aliyah” series by Salvador Dalí. Photo: TIJS at Emory University.

A series of biblical and Zionist-themed paintings by Salvador Dalí has gone on private display in the heart of New York City in an effort to showcase through art the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, the collection’s owner told The Algemeiner. Art dealer Hillel Philip, who owns one of 250 sets of prints of Dalí’s little-known “Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel” series, told The Algemeiner, “You have all of Jewish history, all the dreams of the Jews for 2,000 years, in these paintings.” [link]

Our digital fragmentation: "Shatter Rupture Break" at The Art Institute of Chicago

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Salvador Dalí. City of Drawers, 1936. Gift of Frank B. Hubachek. © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2014.

ILLINOIS---A century ago, society and life were changing as rapidly and radically as they are in today’s digital age. Freeing themselves from the restraints of tradition, modern artists developed groundbreaking pictorial strategies that reflect this new shift in perception. "Shatter Rupture Break," at the Art Institute of Chicago explores the manifold ways that ideas of fragmentation and rupture, which permeated both the United States and Europe, became central conceptual and visual themes in art of the modern age. In the wake of new theories of the mind as well as the literal tearing apart of bodies in war, artists such as Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, and Stanisław Witkiewicz produced photographs and objects revealing the fractured self or erotic dismemberment.

The Art Institute of Chicago: "Shatter Rupture Break," (Ends May 3, 2015); 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, ILL; (312) 443-3600; artic.edu

Today's Holyday Art (ASCENSION) by Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali's Ascension of Jesus Christ

Ascension Day is a Christian holy day commemorating the transition of the resurrected Jesus Christ from an earthly existence to a return to an eternal heavenly existence.

INSPIRE ME! Artist, Salvador Dali

"God is just another artist, like me."

~ SALVADOR DALI

"Madonna of Port Lligat" (1950)

By TAHLIB

On May 11, the museum world will celebrate the birthday of Salvador Dali, a Surrealist and a provocateur, but was he really a Religious Artist? That is not for any of us to judge but there is no doubt that he produced some of the most powerful Religious paintings of recent times. Far better known than Thomas Kinkade will ever be, he aspired to the heights of Walt Disney for name recognition, and at times it seemed he would do anything to get attention including adopting that amazing mustache (which I envy). But unlike some imitators, Dali had immeasurable talent and he produced great works which were hungrily collected by individuals and institutions around the world, including the Vatican even though there was good reason to doubt his religious fervor.

Today's Holy-day Art "Crucifixon" by Salvador Dali

"Crucifixion" (1954) by Salvador Dali
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Pérez Simón Collection Offers a Captivating Study of Spain's Masters

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By James Chute

San Diego Museum of Art executive director Roxana Velasquez and collector Juan Antonio Perez Simon at the museum with Salvador Dali's "The Ascension Of Christ" — Eduardo Contreras

CALIFORNIA---Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, the man whose name is on the title of the new exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art — “From El Greco to Dali: Great Spanish Masters From the Pérez Simón Collection” — was sitting on a bench at the museum, facing Joaquin Sorolla’s “Oxen in the Sea, Study for ‘Afternoon Sun’ ” (1902). Sixty-four paintings from his extensive, encyclopedic collection, representing five centuries of Spanish art, are on display at the museum through Nov. 6. [link]

Salvador Dali's "The Ecumenical Council"

"The Ecumenical Council" (1960) by Salvador Dali
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San Diego Hosts "From El Greco to Dali: The Great Spanish Masters"

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Salvador Dalí. The Ascension of Christ, 1958.
Oil on canvas. Pérez Simón Collection.

CALIFORNIA - For the first and only time in the United States, The San Diego Museum of Art presents the exhibition "From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection." Displaying 64 Spanish oil paintings, sculptures, and drawings from more than 25 master painters, the exhibition, on view from July 8 to November 6, 2011, presents a remarkable overview and visual representation of the progression and history of art in Spain over the last 500 years. With the works of El Greco, José de Ribera and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, the visitor is taken to the heart of the different faces of Catholic Reformation art in the 16th-18th centuries. Goya and Sanchez Coello counter this religious art with beautiful, and sensitive, court portraits of Spanish Monarchs, balancing the portrayal of power with realistic representations. [link]

INSPIRE ME: Artist, Salvador Dali

By CHARLIE GOETZ


"The Sacrament of the Last Supper"
By Salvador Dali

Last year I posted a blog about art and commerce.  Nowhere do the two combine more famously than in the person of Salvador Dali.  A formidable artist--his representationalism (the Crucifixions, his Last Supper) is something of a fine throwback to the Old Masters, while his Surrealism was cutting edge.  But he was also a tireless self-promoter.

Because of that characteristic, I, recently out of college and happily toiling as "editor for the arts" of a small, well-intentioned, New York-based news magazine (long since defunct), was able to garner an interview with Dali.