peter tush: "dining with dali"
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"Dining with Dalí: Gastronomy, Cannibalism,
& Edible Architecture"
Peter Tush Curator of Education
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"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
Dalí: Secret Life
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"I...can only paint after certain delirious occurrences [happen] in my digestive system."
Dalí in Passeron: Salvador Dalí, p.73
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The Lips & Jaws
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"…the most philosophical organs man possesses are his jaws. What indeed is more philosophic than the moment when you slowly suck in the marrow of a bone that is being powerfully crushed in the final destructive embrace of your molars…for it is at the supreme moment of reaching the marrow of anything that you discover the very taste of truth…"
Dalí, Secret Life, p. 10
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Chompers – Ruby Lips with Teeth of Pearls brooch
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A luscious Lip Sofa, 1937
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Toe-sucking
Buñuel and Dalí’s L’Age d’Or
1930
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Not all eating is appropriate in polite society…
Freud’s Perverse Polymorph
(Bulgarian Child Eating a Rat)
1939
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"Sunset, the time for running out to the kitchen-garden! The time notorious for pressing out the guilty juices of terrestrial gardens invaded by the evening breezes of original sins. …"
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"I would bite into everything- sugar beets, peaches, onions tender as a new moon. I was so fearful of becoming satiated, of letting my temptations lose their edge too quickly by the debauched prodigality of my gluttony, that I would only bite the desired fruit with a single impatient crunch of my teeth, and after having extracted from it the strict taste of desire, I would throw away the object of my seduction, the more quickly to grasp the rest of these fruits of the moment, whose taste was for my palate as ephemeral as the fugitive flicker of the fireflies that already began to shine in the deepest shadows of the growing vegetational darkness. …"
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"At times I would take a fruit and be content to touch it with my lips or press it softly against my burning cheek."
Secret Life, p.89
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TheSymbolization
of Food
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"I like to eat only things with well-defined shapes that the intelligence can grasp. I detest spinach because of its utterly amorphous character…"
Secret Life, p. 9
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"The very opposite of spinach is armor. That is why I like to eat armor so much, and especially the small varieties, namely all shell-fish."
Dalí, Secret Life, p. 9
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The Basket of Bread, 1926
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Catalan Bread, 1932
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Nature Morte Evangelique, 1952
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Eggs on the Plate Without
the Plate
1932
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Gala’s gaze, eggs sunny-side up, and St. Lucy
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Born again hard boiled
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"…the most striking vision was that of a pair of eggs fried in a pan, without the pan; …The eggs fried in the pan without the pan, which I saw before my birth were grandiose, phosphorescent and very detailed in all the folds of their faintly bluish whites. These two eggs would approach (toward me), recede, move toward the left, toward the right, …; they would attain the iridescence and intensity of mother-of-pearl fires, only to diminish progressively and at last vanish. The fact that I am still able today to reproduce at will a similar image…makes me interpret this fulgurating image of the eggs as being a phosphene…"
Secret Life
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Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937
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Enigma of Desire
1929
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Persistence of Memory, 1931
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"Dalí’s soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant and solitary paranoiac-critical Camembert of time and space."
Salvador Dalí: Conquest of the Irrational
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Cannibalism
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"I like Gala and I like steak. Why would I not paint them together?"
Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb
Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder
1933
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Self-serving meat from
Les Chantes de Maldoror print suite
1934
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Francesco de Goya
Saturn Devouring One of his Children
1821-1823
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Eating as metaphor for Civil War:
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
(Premonition of Civil War)
1936
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Boiled beans: "One could not imagine swallowing all that unconscious meat without the presence of some mealy and melancholy vegetable."
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"Narcissus, in his immobility, absorbed by his reflection with the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants, becomes invisible."
Poem: The Metamorphosis of
Narcisus, 1936
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Autumnal Cannibalism
1936
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Jean-François Millet: The Angelus, 1857-59
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Male / female relations?Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus, 1933-35
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Female mantis devours male after mating
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William Tell
1930
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Dalí’s father consumes sea urchins in Buñuel’s 1930 Menjant garotes (Eating Sea Urchins)
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Print from Les Chantes de Maldoror, 1934
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Photo by Buñuel of Dalí with hair shaved and urchin on head
1929
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Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon
1941
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Edible Architecture
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Spoofing André Breton’s pronouncement, "Surrealism will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all," Dalí suggested a new metaphor:
"The new Surrealist image of the ‘cannibalism of objects’ equally justifies the following conclusion: Beauty will be EDIBLE, or it will not be at all."
Dalí: "The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture," 1933 article in Minotaure magazine
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Brassai:
Métro Modern
Style
(Héctor Guimard)
1933
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The "edible" architecture of Antonio Gaudí: La Perdrera (Casa Mila) apartments, Barcelona
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Bread loaves and eggs decorate Dalí’s Torre Galatea at the Teatro Museo
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Digestion& Excretion
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"My enlightenment is born and propagated through my guts."
Les Diner de Gala
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Indigestion?
"I personally indulge in
atomic explosions"
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Joan Miró: Man and Woman in Front of Pile of Excrement, 1935
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The Accommodations of Desire, 1929, Metropolitan Museum, NY
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"Temporal immortality must be looked for in refuse, in excrement and nowhere else… And since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most. As a result, I increasingly dislike all scatological jokes and all forms of frivolity on this subject."
Diary of a Genius
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The Social Dimensionof Eating:
Cooking & Dining
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Salvador Dalí
Dalí: Les Diners de Gala
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Dalí with the Chef and Owner of Maxim’s
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It includes recipes for thousand year old eggs, conger eel, crayfish consommé, peacock, and aphrodisiacs.
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The Royal Book of Cookery (Livre de cuisine), English edition 1868
Jules Gouffé was born in Paris in 1807 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1877. He was a renowned French chef and pâtissier.In 1867 he accepted an offer from Alexandre Dumas to become chef de bouche of the Jockey-Club de Paris.
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Dalí’s entourage always assembled at the best restaurants
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Agnostic Symbol
1932
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Dalí’s "mollusc-shell" silver-gilt dessert service cutlery designs, 1957
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Elephant tusk fork and the "serpent with the forked tongue"
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Salvador Dalí
Dinner in the Desert Lit by
Giraffes on Fire
1937
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The ultimate social gathering: Last Supper, 1955
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Photo by Werner Bokelberg
1965
Dalí stages a crustacean feast on the body of actress
and model Lotte Tarp