Dali Planet #121:
Sorbonne University, Paris
In 1955 Dali packed the lecture hall at the Sorbonne for a talk on “the phenomenological aspects” of his paranoiac-critical method. He tried once again to make listeners understand the process of uncovering unconscious interpretations of reality by simulating the sensations experienced by paranoiacs.
But Dali had long since moved on, inward to the atomic level of consciousness. He had succeeded in creating “floating space” with “Leda Atomica” in 1948 (above), utilising the Divine Proportions with the help of a Romanian mathematician, and in later works the golden section and other principles, finally arriving, with “Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)”, at “the most perfect square in aesthetics”, the Figura Magistralis.
In 1950’s “Dali at the Age of Six, When He Thought He Was a Girl Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Skin of the Sea to Oberserve a Dog Sleeping in the Shade of the Water” (below), the subject matter seems to float like foreign bodies in space. “My mysticism is not only religious,” he said, “but also nuclear and hallucinogenic.”
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