S. Dali on the portrait of P. Eluard The humiliated, offended Paul Eluar became the hero of an ugly history. It involves the author of the portrait of Salvador Dali and the famous Gala – Paul’s ex-wife, later the mistress and spouse of the Spanish artist. In addition to the role in the notorious triangle of love relationships, the poet Eluar got the role of the hero of his own portrait after the break with Gala.
El Salvador, how noble his impulse to write his former rival, humiliated Paul, make a “substitution” of the gentle Gal is a flat reflection of the misfortune no longer of her husband or friend. And the narrative itself is full of allusions to carnal pleasures and intimacy. Numerous attributes with imitation of the phallus, fish, which are interpreted as dream books, like future pregnancy and childbirth, hands that cover the image of the poet – why all this? Complex composition of work in the spirit of the author – the surrealist. Unlike writers, an artist can only express his own experiences and thoughts with a stroke.
What the author wanted to say in the portrait of a former friend is not known. There are a lot of personification and secret meetings for love comforts, and Galatea Gala’s troubles, hanging on the shoulder with a falling silhouette, and escape from the deceived husband-the romance of the lovers who have taken place, they like insects stole into the right-hand corner… Knowing the biography of the poet’s relationship with Elena, their long meetings and separation, the expectation of the return of the young Lena to Europe and the long-awaited marriage, it is difficult to believe that the Spaniard Dali was able to break such love.
Although, given the “walking” nature of the chosen artist, Salvador somehow saved Paul Eluard from the suffering of the eternal betrayal of the wife. Perhaps, on the contrary, the author of the portrait freed a former friend from a lie, and in addition presented a beautiful imprint of reality in oil? The memorable interpretation of the image of a man reflects youth, sadness and loneliness.
The paradoxical combinations of fiction and nature have drawn us a deep meaning of what is going on in the life of the poet. And seeds in the background, like seeds of discord, and the emptiness of the landscape, and someone going to meet Eluarau – all this was and will be in the biography of the offended hero. And a low blue cloudless sky will appear over the offended creator.
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