MoMA hosts ~ Dali: Painting & Film Explores Cinema in the Work of the Surreal Master

Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989), Illumined Pleasures 1929 - Oil and collage on board 23.8 x 34.7 cm. The Museum of Modern Art - The Sidney & Harriet Janis Collection. © 2008 Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

NEW YORK CITY – The Museum of Modern Art presents Dalí: Painting and Film, the first exhibition to focus on the profound relationship between the paintings and films of Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989). The exhibition proposes that Dalí’s personal engagement with cinema—as a filmgoer, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, and an art director—was fundamental to his understanding of modernism and deeply affected his art. Comprising a gallery presentation of more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, letters, and films. The exhibition is on view from June 29 to September 15, 2008, with the first film program beginning on June 20.

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