Alongside them, the figure of Ramon Llull, a medieval Catalan thinker who placed his faith in the tools of science and religion alongside knowledge, would be one of his chief points of reference throughout his life. In that final period the writings of the physicist Stephen Hawking, along with the catastrophe theory of the mathematician René Thom, were to constitute his main interests. In his last great work, the Dalí Theatre-Museum itself, the painter was to lend material form to many of those concerns. Among the painter's conceptual preferences his major interests lay in the world of mathematics and optics. Thanks to this, we can confidently assert that by following the work of Salvador Dalí we traverse an important period in 20th-century science, at least in relation to the scientific advances that particularly affected him. The painter's library clearly reflected that passion: it contains a hundred or so books (with notes and comments in the margins) on various scientific aspects: physics, quantum mechanics, the origins of life, evolution and mathematics, as well as the many science journals he subscribed to in order to keep up to date with all the science news.
That passion, which lasted throughout his life, was a fruit of the historical times that fell to him to experience - among the most fertile in the history of science, with spectacular technological advances. The artist uses its vocabulary in situations which we might in principle classify as non-scientific. Salvador Dalí's relationship with science began during his adolescence, for Dalí began to read scientific articles at a very early age.
What do Stephen Hawking, Ramon Llull, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, "Cosmic Glue", Werner Heisenberg, Watson and Crick, Dennis Gabor and Erwin Schrödinger have in common? The answer is simple: Salvador Dalí, a genial artist, who evolved amidst a multitude of facets, a universal Catalan who remained firmly attached to his home region, the Empordà. Languages Languages: Català Castellano English Français 中文Ĭarme Ruiz Centre of Dalinian Studies.Restoration - Restoration interventions.
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