The Mysterious Book that Dalí Left Behind
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Salvador Dalí is one of the most celebrated and influential artists of all time. His work has a perennial magic that still captivates generations of artists and art lovers alike. 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship is a work of surrealist literature by Salvador Dalí himself, where he describes his bizarre creative process in detail.
As always, I hope this video guides you to appreciate Salvador Dalí on a deeper level and understand the man behind the art.
Reading this book inspired me to make this video: 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
Chapters:
0:00 Dalí, a surrealist person
1:40 Dalí's thoughts on art
4:30 Dalí's idea of destiny
6:03 Salvador Dalí's bizarre creative methods
12:17 Magic craftsmanship
13:08 Art showcase
Sources:
50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship by Salvador Dalí
Music:
Natascha by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra.
Memory Image by Claude Larson
Sospetti E Tenerezze by Ennio Morricone
Capricho árabe by Francisco Tárrega
I have purchased all the equipment to build an Aeronaurium?!(spelling). Ill let the spiders do their weaving and begin. I really dont care if it works,it just sounds fantastico. Cadaquez,Port Ligat are really worth a visit,along with a wander through his and galas house.
I am changing the name of my mudroom to my Aeronarium. I have some big grey barn spiders who build their webs as not to interfere with where I walk. I used to be scared to death of them, but now we live together in harmony. .....and my ex husband refuses to walk through it, lol.
Happy to see that all of my lifes dreams that is one which I have accomplished. In fact, looking back, the fact I've seen that, the florida museum, and the Philadelphia Art Exhibition featuring his works from private collectors is fairly impressive. The Philadelphia exhibit was the best and most profound. Didn't really dawn on me until much later how important, rare, and excellent that exhibit truly was. I hung around for an hour or 2 but wish I took even more time.
Spider webs do absorb and reflect light in interesting ways. And having 5 of them at different distances would mean that some of them would be blurred out as you focus on the painting. That could create some pretty crazy first-person visual effects.
So anything updates??
I was seriously intrigued by that thing. On the other hand my arachnophobia is pretty serious no issues with the webs though XD
I started painting 17 years ago, and right off the bat, i was obsessed with Dali. I bought every book on him, every book he wrote; including 50 Secrets (which i have HEAVILY notated the margins), two of his autobiographies, his book of poetry, and his novel Hidden Faces. Im an avid reader, and he is a phenomenal writer. truly, the novel is a masterpiece. not a very good poet though. I firmly believe he is responsible for utterly changing the trajectory of my life. I noticed you also flashed a painting by Vladimir Kush! Also a hero of mine, and I actually got to meet him and talk with him. He made an appearance at a gallery, and I was basically the only person who knew who he was, so i got all his time. he signed my copy of his book Metaphorical Journey, and i got to ask him how he created some of his textures that i liked so much. This was a great video, and its pretty cool to see someone giving such an interesting book some love. theres a lot of weird and impractical stuff on the surface, but he was not interested in the surface level. if you havent read his novel, please do look into it. i would be interested to see someone elses take on it. its based around WWII, and he wrote it during the same time period. 1943. its just as surreal as you would expect. anyway, cheers mate! thumb'd and subbed.
Yes, Duchamp changed history, but it is also true that whether his importance is primarily that of an artist, or a commentator on art, is a matter of conjecture.
Is there anywhere we can see your work?
@@eliosanciolo2844 an art Philosopher like John Cage
I have the same love for frances bacon.....ive actually started painting 1 year ago and i have to say dali to me is like a mirror at a fun house beautifully surreal
Is this the book he left behind? 😂😂😂 kidding
We spend our lives searching for the sacred spark of magic, but when we discover its true nature, we find that it is, and always has been, utterly ubiquitous, enveloping completely every moment we have ever experienced.
That's really good! I believe it is true.
Salvador Dali has always been my very favorite painter and visual artist since I found out about him in art class many years ago!! The man is a genius! 😀
You need to check out Dali's men's fragrance, "Salvador Dali Pour Homme". It was released two years before his death and it is still in production. An amazing fragrance. It is as dark and surreal as he was. I have a collection of over 150 fragrances and Dali's is in my top ten best of all time. He was also a master of the art of perfumery.
Dali's is the tastiest by far! Just wait for the hangover after the "dreams"! Peace
@@michaelwertzy9808 what you even mean by that?
@@wildstallion2.048, you have none senses of common humors except maybe calling yourself "Wildstallion"! Is that what all the gentlemen call you, Hussey?!
@@wildstallion2.048 if you know you know
@@michaelwertzy9808 windstallion asked you a reasonable question.just asking for clarification . I don’t understand your comment either.
Instead of clarifying, you attack and try to insult him/her.
What’s up with that. ?
I think Dali, knew that it was not about following his instruction, but to follow his instruction enough to 'call his bluff' , meant that you had arrived at being your own master- with no need to mimic him...i.e break with convention to free yourself.
No doubt. If you mimicked him you would be a fool because you would fail. He openly professed there is only one Dalì. Idk if it's a language/cultural difference as well, but he often referred to himself in the 3rdperson, like Dalì was other than man. Dalì was a force, a surreal entity. Gotta say- He's magnificent and he is right.
Yes, Dali was certainly a superb painter and even when surrealism became passé', his work still holds up as beautiful. I saw how through the years trends in art became goofier and stranger. Almost just humor. Now, I think all that is just foolish, yet people will say realism is finished. I just ignored it all and painted what I wanted to paint, ignore and paint what you want to.
Good for You! YES---be true to your own muse.
I have been to his museum in Florida several times. His paintings are euphoric and mesmerizing. A quality rarely found in contemporary art in our time.
Do u highly recommended it? I live down south but sometimes I consider a road trip
@@em13108 It is a mind expanding experience.
I'm from germany and I've been there too, it was amazing!!
@@frankwhite9642 It is hard to imagine when he had the time to paint all that he painted. Each painting must have taken a long time.
I had a membership to the Dalí Museum before the pandemic closed all museums everywhere. Personally, I liked the Gala Cafe & you don't need to pay entry fee for that or the gift shop. The annual membership gets you free parking and admission to another museum each month.
I bought this book twice. The first one was destroyed when the basement flooded in my old house. As an artist, I have always been fascinated by Dali's tecnical brilliance as well as his fantastic vision.
Dali was my first inspiration, and the very road into art, and becoming an artist. He is too much, which is actually what is needed, that is why he is among the most significiant artist of all time.
Nonsense to the negative background music comments. Good video and some beautiful, if slightly odd paintings.
Wow. Thought I knew Dali but don’t know this book. Spend my teens and 20’s scouting Europe for exhibitions after reading My Secret Life… culminating in the Theatre Museum and finally visiting his house in Port Lligat. Walked right up the steps and knocked on his front door. Peered through the windows but no answer - he’d died 3 years prior, yet somehow I still expected him to be home. So, I sat on the edge of the boat with the tree growing through it I’d seen in so many paintings and I look out at the water and mused a while - I didn’t see any swans reflecting elephants - but I can say legit, I knocked on Dali’s front door. Felt pretty… what’s the word? Surreal!
@@UnclePumblechook Thanks for the update! Be great to actually go in next time - but also felt cool being the only ones there, sat in his front courtyard before it became a tourist thing. I also chatted to some elderly retired fishermen who claimed they were friends with Dali. Dali certainly references hanging out with the local fishermen in his autobiography.
The spider webs contraption reminds me of some esoteric meditations I came across, Hindu I believe, in which there were many visualization instructions of forms and colors to envision in order to attain very particular states. How I wish I could remember what it was because, as I took a stab at these mindful approaches, I got the feeling that the complications of the meditation had been worked out perfectly by one (or many) in higher states, ones who no longer needed the guides they'd passed down, but had been able to document their progress in such a way as to directly inspire the experience in others who may not even understand at all, until they do...a real manifesting ritual.
Hopefully someone will respond and refer us so we can go from YT to the altered visionary state 😁
How can you not love Dali? He's the artist's artist.
Dali and Fascism
The Canvas
Is Salvador Dali a fascist? The relationship between art and fascism is a very heavy, controversial and important question.
Lessons From A Nazi Artist
Dalí's obsession with Hitler | The darkest side of Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali was a Fascist - Brian Huntress
When Fascists Make Art
@@GardaOrban That doesn't take away the fact that he was a great artist. You can love a man's work but hate his ideologies etc. Knut Hamsun's Hunger, Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, incredible works of art despite both writers having Nazi sympathies. The list could go on.
I love this guy ! He did what he wanted and created his own incredible style.
...and got away with it. That's the toughest part.
This man figured out a way to capture, with a painting, the very cusp of human consciousness.
Absolutely brilliant.
I remember when I was a little kid and he would be on afternoon talk shows in the '70s. A very interesting person with a unique perspective and a tremendous sense of humor.
I’ve seen those clips! What an amazing era in art to live through
I love Salvador Dali so much. When I went to Paris I bought a print of one of his works from a museum. I have always been CAPTIVATED by his work, even his work in film! this being said, he seems to be one of the best examples of narcissism that ever existed. if you doubted that he was a genius, all you had to do was ask him and he would convince you. 😊
One of the few I admire, he did not seem to cross the physical violence line as so many do. Not all Narcissists are vicious, some are inspirational although very unusual in thier style and can make a huge difference to the world. As long as they are indulged or given space to be who they are without restriction. He has been my favorite since I saw his work.
please correct me if I am wrong anyone :)
@@reikirainbowhandspawsmore7103 I think you are right. Dali was genuinely great. Of course I am not a professional, so I can't talk with authority about narcissism, but I know there are different kinds and severity. Either way when dealing with a personality like that, one would just surely have to be careful to protect and guard yourself.
He was the Muhammed Ali of art.
I admire his work but yes, he was an egomaniacal.
When i was 12 i gave up trying to draw and then i was exposed to dali at the age of 15....Salvador Dali tought me that art doesn't need rules and to create my own worlds with my own style....
LOL, that's totally opposite of what Dali' instructed people to do.
But Dali was not speaking to the average painter, about the valet putting fragrance on the pillow, was he. He was a high-level occultist, speaking to other occultists in ‘the know’. Seems, he had a lot of strange rituals. His art includes occult images to those ‘in the know’.
I knew first hand when I seen a couple of his paintings .
Are you in the know?
@@sonder152 Brother I'm pretty much at the end of the Rabbit Hole let's just say that.
@@triumphant2600 There is no end to the rabbit hole...🧐
@@NorAnon nor is there any rabbit hole
Dali was the first to inspire me to make art. I'll never forget the most bizarre documentary our teacher showed us in the late 80s, I think it was called portrait of an artist. I've never been able to find it since but it documented his process making the eggs with him being birthed. As wonderfully surreal as his work was it is often overlooked by many commentators that he used heroine in his formalisation of ideas although he adamantly rejected the idea of being an adict saying that he would partake or not at will. Funny how this is downplayed today as I don't believe it makes his work any less valid, but knowing this it is evident how his work came to be.
Salvador lived a charmed life in another time, when the world was very different than what we perceive today
When people could live their lives in relative freedom, unlike now where we are basically paid slaves with no real rights.
Great video mate!
As someone who has been fortunate to be able to travel parts of the world, Dali's ideas about color palettes in different regions is spot on. That would have a big impact on a painter.
No wonder many people don't care for winter. Not just the cold, but the lack of colors.
The way he shows the methods of manipulating dreams somehow explains why i had the outcome the way it is. I sleep with the lights on, so i often dream in full color. And sometimes i hear music bcs the music was playing when i was in REM sleep.
Idk if anyone else has had this, but the dream part of the video really resonated with me because there seems to be a sweet spot between asleep and awake where it's like dipping yourself into some river of free floating ideas and images, really creativity itself...I have written whole songs in this state, but the unfortunate thing is that as you reach wakefulness most of it just kinda stays there and you can only get ahold of so much (like the melody lines) to take with you...I really haven't tried inducing such state as he seems to have done, but after watching this I just might try n see how that goes.
Jung called it the collective conscious. Where all the primordial knowledge is stored up throughout history.
Yes it's magical it creates new unique ideas from existing ones
My research lab in college was in infant visual development. My professor loved surrealism and got me into it. The connection between the act of seeing and then transferring that onto canvas…interesting idea about the northern painters not being able to understand color.
The eerie & mellow music embody the alluring hypnosis any of his paintings personify. He most definitely had a kaleidoscopes point of view. Hands formed to cast astonishing surrealism ignited by a unorthodox mind. This was splendid to watch. Props.
How did you find the music for this? Awesome.
Much of the music on this channel comes from film scores from 1960s Italian Cinema
For future videos....turn down the music about 3db. It's just way too loud here and makes it harder to concentrate on your voice. Especially after a few minutes when the organ stuff begins. Other than that. Tremendous video. Glad more people are taking out their balls and telling it how it really is and not giving rise to this lazy art like Dali talked about in the gallery with the door being better than the art....heck that's most galleries these days. :D
Thank you Jeffery, I am new to this, but improving with each video. The music volume was definitely too high on this one! I'm glad you stuck around and saw the value in it regardless
@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt Definitely love the music though
"Taking out their balls", lol.
Good way to phrase it 👏🏻 👍🏻
@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt fantastic video pal, really interesting.... cheers
Super well done mini documentary. Having a Dali picture book as a toddler had a profound effect upon the way I think and see the world. Didn't realize this fact until viewing this work. I amazing indebted to you.
Laughed my tail off with the Dali quotes about the painted door and snow being the enemy of the retina.
Dali had a sharp perspective on life.
I've been to his parents house in Cadaqués , about 30 years ago ;-) . There is a huge egg on top of the chimney outside ;-). LEGEND !!!
Fantastic presentation of this amazing book! Thank you!
Thank you Kelly! glad you enjoyed!
i think i was 9 when i first saw dali paintings. it was love at first sight and has never stopped. i added magritte and chagall, but dali never fails to enchant me.
Possibly the most inspirational video I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Makes me want to be an artist i can't draw so mabey photography. Thank you. Ending on Andre was even more perfect.
You can draw. Everyone can draw. You simply have not really tried to draw. There's a method to drawing that you need to apply. First you need to learn how to see.
i personally really like the music! i have got to get my hands on a copy of this book, thanks for covering it
You got me over here 'Glistening' on some Claude Monet. So glad I looked up the music on here.
Leonore Fini is another artist with a life that matched her art. I love Dali's tarot deck.
Dali's Tarot deck is masterpiece.
I LOVE Leonor Fini!
Never heard of this book before & I'm looking forward to reading it. Thanks!
Liked and subscribed, thanks for the amazing video dude. I'm definitely gonna check out that book and you have completely piqued my interest in Dali
Dali has always had a hypnotic effect on me. So much so that I was compelled to purchase at auction a brush signed print of the painting "The Lawyer".
As an artist, Salvador Dali has always been my sole inspiration, and I really mean that. And that is over Max Earnst, Rene' Magritte and others that I regard as "almost ", as unique. I wish I could have met the man.
Unfortunately, I cannot see how any artists or even art itself for the same reason will return to or be created anew in the expertise of the masters Dali spoke of and knew well. Effort, individualism, and a life dedicated to one purpose is I believe, gone by the way of instant everything. Tysm for sharing this, I don't recall ever taking as many screenshots as I have in such a short amount of time. Sincerely, G
Awesomne ! enjoyed the video and the music aswell on the end !
Fascinating, thank you 💗
Several paintings I have never seen before, which surprises me as I am 64 now and loved Dali since I was 12.
Always did love him. Thank you so much.
"I don't do drugs, I am drugs." - Salvador Dali
Amazing video my man, loved the chaneel, keep up the good work
Thank you for sharing that out I will add you on my watch later list
I enjoyed this very much. Thanks!
The book is a great read. Highly recommended for both artists and non-artists.
People living in a Mediterranean environment do not notice the “colors”, those who come from a different environment are impressed by them. A fish doesn’t know it is in water.
They are lucky fish
The techniques for dream and daytime astral vision sounds awfully similar to the astral projection and dream work techniques that Aleister Crowley used himself and taught to students. How to escape the dream world and see the Wake World. Dali could have just as easily been a mystic as an artist.
Well, Dali was born in the year of Crowley's beginning year of the New Aeon, 1904.
Dali displays many qualities of Thelema,.
I do not know how much Dali knew of Crowley but both saw Art as Divine.
@@thenowchurch6419 For sure Dali knew who Crowley was, but Dali wanted to be excepted.
@@thenowchurch6419 I never put that together before, thank you! Interesting timing on Dali's birth for sure! My second favorite tarot deck aside from the white box A Thoth is my Dali deck from the Museum of Dali in Paris. When I got that deck I realized how well Dali fit into the mystical world. Dali and Crowley were both such intriguing characters!
@@LVXMagick Thanks. I did not know that Dali had a Tarot deck. I doubt Crowley would have agreed with Dali's reverence for the
Pope and Roman Catholic church but it seems he lived his True Will.
93 bro.
@@tompanoname3579 That is very likely true.
Do you have any evidence though?
A surrealist artist friend of mine, many years ago, showed me the original edition hardcopy of The 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship that he'd bought at the local library fire sale, for five bucks. I was astonished. I read it then, and eventually bought a reprint copy for myself. It is the kind of book that you need a dictionary sitting beside it as you read, and a turn of phrase running into a crucial but unknown word turns into a page-turning investigation, ending in hilarious revelation. It's like he has buried his punchlines in the deepest reaches of his prodigious vocabulary, for the edification and amusement of only those who can be bothered following him all the way down the path.
I tried the slumber with key method enough to know that it works every time, and the single frame image that you just dredged from your subconscious just hovers in your conscious mind upon awakening, daring you to paint it.
Love this man Salvador Dali is a wonderful person because of him I became a self taught surrealist
Excellent doc. well done.
Thx for the effort to achieve it.
No, thank you for watching!
Dali's life was perormance art quite literally, i believe. He was fortunate enough to not need to ever be bogged down in the triviality of everydayness that the majority of people cannot escape. Anyone who is fortunate enough to never need to engage in the banal tasks of daily life, and is highly intelligent, can create their "own little world" however they see fit, and never have their bubble burst.
I have little doubt he was likely dabbling in psychiadelic substances as well, because we can all name at least one person who denies consuming drugs despite having been caught red-handed. Regardless, the man was truly brilliant, and he never lost his his childlike wonder or the feeling of mastery over the world around him that is uaually only enjoyed by very young children. Most of us cannot maintain those things because someone comes along and insists that we "get our heads out of the clouds" and "be realistic" and if we don't comply we're punished until we lose that spark.
Or if you grow up in poverty, you may never feel the omnipotence of mastery of the world because it doesn't bend to your whims, making his innocent childlike wonder completely impossible to understand. At times, I've lamented that most artists today aren't insulated from reality like he was, but ultimately I'm grateful, because he never actually experienced so many of the hardships that give people the depth of character and empathy to create artworks that surpass even the great Dali's. If the day ever comes in the distant future that he is forgotten, the world truly have lost a great treasure.
Thank you for this. I have been using a meager four spiderwebs, and have as of yet been bereft of the sought after effects. I shall acquire this marvelous tome post haste. I must also proclaim that your videos are a rousing success!
Really love this video 👏👏👏
"Snow is the enemy of the retina" LOL, wow!
YOU MUST BE REALLY PROUD OF THAT BACKGROUND MUSIC.
This book is fantastic. I've read it a few times. It is one of the most useful and influential things I've ever read.
Very interesting and a wonderful soundtrack. Occasionally the narration is a bit hard to make out but a great video. Many thanks!
Hey great job on the video bud!
Our guy Dali was definitely on the spectrum that's for damn sure! Great mini-doc man, I fucks wid it
I am a massive admirer of Dali. That was very interesting.
Dali is the forefront of a pop artist , its morphing into what we are living with .His skill is overstated. Picasso lays him low .
one of the highlights of my careers as a lighting designer was working on the Dali universe exhibition that was the first showing of his works in Australia. It had alot of his journal work that was as interesting, if not more than his paintings or sculptures
I always feel euphoria with his best paintings.
The Music in the Background is straight slappin!!
I sure will, thanks. Reminded me I haven't read anything by him for a while too long!
He's so fascinating
After all these years, I have come to the conclusion that Salvador Dali is among the greatest artists who ever lived, and he could paint anything: from abstract, to realism. But even more incredible, he even created his own painting methods, and that is to me phenomenal!
I'll have my Valet get right on that oil thing...lol! just kidding---nice video---interesting clips. I was privileged as a teenager to be able to see many of Dali's original works up close and in person at a small, private collection museum in the Cleveland, Ohio region---as one of our field trips for art class. He's fascinating for sure.
If you think about it, Picasso's surrealist style only found its way after he had mastered the human form. At 15 he could draw a person true to life, and that learned mastery permeated everything he would go on to make, no matter how absurd or formless it appeared. The genius was there.
That’s debatable
Very nice video!
Very well done. Bravo good man.
Art history is not something i normally look at but this is great really interesting
After over 50 years of looking at his work this gave me a new appreciation. Michael Jackson, Tiny Tim, R. Crumb… art becomes life becomes art.
Crumb was always so underrated to me. He was so honest to his mind.
Yay! Fantastic!
He was way ahead of his time! Such a Amazing man!
Very few like him to ever live
I love that book, serious and seriously tongue in cheeky indeedy!
I really enjoyed reading it, as much as I scratched my head at times
Fascinating!
I did not know that he was an active dreamer and used those to help create his work. This was a great watch. Dreams have been the driving force behind my own work and it is the case still.
Dreams are a mystery
I think Dali is one of the greatest artists of all times!!! If you can see his museum in St. Petersburg Florida it’s worth the trip and it’s spectacular museum. Go early because people line up early to get in❤❤❤❤❤
I've been using that key drop without ever having heard of this book.
I enjoyed this video very much.
beautiful video
love the KPM soundtrack youve used...big vibe
I used to frequently become aware I was dreaming when I was close to waking up and could control it somewhat. I always remember my dreams in color, it's interesting that many people don't.
I also dream in color and keep detailed notes of my dreams after I wake
@@PeoplesRepublicOfArt I try to keep a dream journal but I usually fall back asleep and then have the frustration of remembering that I remembered my dream when I first woke up but can't quite recall what it was.
art making turns into a ritual of creating experience states, past the painting, past the frame to the whole gallery of works and the people engaged within it, the steps down the street the particular hue of tonights sunset, the universe becomes the relationship of the artwork to the beholder to the one whose well of meaning is being drawn from to help enact this masterpiece of moment, this happening of unrivaled and unrepeatable experience.
how you look and from where you are standing is key, what you bring into the experience, who you are is the lock, the gallery the frame and the art, the door to your soul
I spent a lot of time trying to find it so just letting everyone know that the song that stats at 0:40 is called Liquid Sunshine by John Cameron
If you ever get the chance pay a visit to the Dali museum, near Barcelona. What an amazing place! An incredible range of work by a true genius.
Great stuff, thank you!
Liked and subbed
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Thanks @SpacetimeWorm
I really enjoyed your video. I share Catalan ancestry and old Spaniards compared everything to Spain and being Spanish on an uneven scale. Just part of that stage of culture. About 6 generations ago some of my ancestors migrated from Barcelona.
Great documentary! Like the appropriate music choices. 7:12 (Looks like he has an iPad ; - )
Part Velasquez, El Greco, Goya, and Bosch. Sadly, he will be best remembered for being the top selling poster artist in college freshmen dorm rooms.
i'd have to agree with his sentiments.
Being an artist or craftsman takes as much time and effort as mastering any other talent.
Practice and perfection of technique is gone with many failing to even recognize it left.
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You MUST come to Florida and visit The Salvador Dali Museum I St Petersburg! It is amazing!
The Renaissance is unrivaled and, it will never be matched.