Video: Salvador Dali's joint project with Playboy: nothing personal, only money
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
White-toothed, equally tanned blondes, in places pumped up, in places tucked up, in places retouched in graphic editors - this is what Playboy magazine looks like today. And many do not even think that it was conceived as a magazine for real men, and not for representatives of the computer generation. There were times when the best writers and artists were invited to this magazine to demonstrate their vision of the beauty of the female body.
In 1974, Playboy invited the most unusual artist of all times and peoples - Salvador Dali. He created sketches, which were brought into reality by the photographer Pompeo Pasar, under the title "The Erotic World of Salvador Dali". If you remember that the issue of the visual embodiment of sexual desires has occupied Dali since the early 1920s, he can be safely considered the forerunner of Hugh Hefner. Dali, like Hefner, was an ardent admirer of Sigmund Freud, and sincerely believed that there was nothing outrageous in sex, and he could and should be used as a motivator for a course in the development of a person's individuality.
Dali was in full control of the entire process, building each frame based on his own sketches. He developed a system of commands. As if the real master of these beautiful women, the artist built them into his own world of illusions, granted them immortality and demanded in return for complete obedience in order to look at them and enjoy the voyeuristic position that he arranged for himself and the rest of the world.
Dali, as an artist, was obsessed with nudity, hidden sexuality and the manifestation of sex in the human subconscious as symbols, signs and fantasies. In addition, he loved to shock, stun and confuse … And what a sin, he also loved to make money on this. It was not in vain that Dali called himself "a prostitute from art."
In an interview, when journalists were asked to comment on his collaboration with Playboy, Dali assured readers that the "meaning" of his work is due to the "purest" motivation … "money."
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