![]() According to Romm and Slap, Freud’s influence is also seen in many of Dali’s paintings such as City of Drawers (1936) and Anthropomorphic Cabinet (1936), were either dedicated to Freud or conceived with “Freudian Principles” as their Genesis” (339). ![]() Among the Surrealist, the effect of Freudian theories mainly finds its place in Dali’s pictorial presentations. The Surrealists showed interest in Freud’s theory of the unconscious in art, poetry and imagination. Rose gives a brief account of the Surrealists and opines that “In their revolutionary zeal, many surrealists embraced communism and freudianism” (350). Freud says “he considered the surrealists “complete fools” as stated by Rose in her work (351) Freud scrutinized Dali’s work without showing any gesture of praise and comments “what interests me in your art is not the unconscious but the conscious” (353). Romm and Slap opines that the portrait was drawn to keep it as a memory and also to capture the event of their interview. On meeting Freud, Dali had sketched Freud, which reflects his admiration for Freud Romm and Slap focuses on Dali’s behavior in the interview and opines that “Dali’s behavior was frequently exhibitionistic, rebellious and eccentric in an effort to appear unique” (337), Dali tried to show his aura of intellect but unfortunately the effect was ‘opposite’. Freud adhered to the ‘classical art of antiquity’. Rose in his work too agrees with Freud’s notion of modern art and opines that “when it came to art, it seems that Freud was an arch-conservative”(352). I am unable rightly to appreciate many of the methods used and the effects obtained in art” (320), Gillbert J. Dali immortalized their meeting as a great event in his autobiography.ĭonald M Kaplan, in his work argues about Freud’s view of modern art, where Freud emphasizes that “I may say at once that I am no connoisseur in art, but simply a layman. Sharon Romm and Joseph William Slap in their work gives a description of the interview between Dali and Freud, which took place on 19th July 1938,London and explains that for Dali it was a dream come true, for Freud “it was probably little more than an interesting meeting” (337). ![]() Dali dreamt of meeting Freud however his dream fulfilled after several attempts. ![]() Dali drew inspiration from Freud’s theories, The Interpretation of Dreams and Psychoanalysis he had also developed a relationship of communication with Freud in his reverie. Freud was the idol, whom Dali admired and kept at a higher pedestal like God and so Jean-Pierre Barricelli in his work opines that “Dali spoke of Freud as a Christian would speak of the apostles” (358). Sigmund Freud held a very significant place in Dali’s life. Apart from being a leading proponent of Surrealism, Salvador Dali also took delight in Freudian works. ![]()
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