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Corpus Hypercubus: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Crucifixion
Binjaku, Eden
Binjaku, Eden
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In the latter period of his career, Dalí departed from some of the surrealist paradigms and imagery of the interwar period, and the politics that increasingly determined the group’s direction and identity. Instead, this new era is characterized by his theory and artistic application of "Nuclear Mysticism" (the relating of quantum physics to the conscious mind), Christian imagery, and engagement with the exemplum of Old Masters. This is especially present in his oil painting from 1954 Corpus Hypercubus (Crucifixion). Here, Christ’s cross is replaced with a polyhedron net of a tesseract, while Gala poses as Mary Magdalene within an ambiguous landscape. After exploring the implications of Dali’s post-war creative practice and activities, and his explicit references through primary source-led visual analysis; this thesis will ultimately explore how Dalí locates iconic images of religious figures into the Surreal subconscious. Ultimately reworking his own Surrealist paradigms into the aim for a “New Renaissance”, reveals a strategic and forceful synthesis of theories and references that are nonetheless complimentary to his earlier practice.
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Thesis (B.A. in Art History, Minor in Art and Design/Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2022.
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2022
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Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989, Pictorial works, Crucifixion of Jesus Christ (Salvador Dalí, 1904-1989)
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Binjaku, Eden. "Corpus Hypercubus: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Crucifixion". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2022.