Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man | |
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Artist | Salvador Dalí |
Year | 1943 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Surrealism |
Dimensions | 44.5 cm × 52 cm (17.5 in × 20 in) |
Location | Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg |
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man is a 1943 painting by Salvador Dalí. The painting was done during Dalí's stay in the United States from 1940 to 1948. It is said to be one of his most recognizable paintings. It is of a man scrambling out of an egg while an adult woman and child look on.[1] The work is currently on view at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.[2]
It was reproduced on the cover of the record album Newborn by James Gang.
Dalí provided some abbreviated, mysterious notes about the work: "Parachute, paranaissance, protection, cupola, placenta, Catholicism, egg, earthly distortion, biological ellipse. Geography changes its skin in historic germination."[3]
Subjects and symbolism
The egg is a common subject in Dalí's work. Early in his career, eggs commonly symbolized hope and love. However, Child Watching the Birth of the New Man and other later works mimics the egg as a Christian symbol of purity and perfection.[4] Dalí uses the leaking yellow "yolk" of the egg to map the world onto the egg.[3]
The man emerging from egg is the "New Man" referenced in the title, and the "Geopoliticus Child" can be seen crouching in the lower right-hand corner.
The New Man emerges from the egg where North America should be, breaking through the rising power of the US and resting his hand on Europe to support his emergence.[3] South America and Africa are both enlarged relative to Europe, conveying the growing importance of the so-called "third world."[2]
The draped cloth represents the placenta.[2]
The androgynous figure who the Geopoliticus child holds on to is pointing at the New Man, showing the child the "new historical period it will represent."[2]
Provenance
Source:[1]
- Knoedler Gallery, New York
- Stuart Art Gallery, Boston
- Louis E. Stern
- Richard Feignen Gallery, Chicago
- E. and A. Reynolds Morse, Cleveland (Ohio)
See also
References
- ^ a b ""Geopoliticus" child watching the birth of the new man | Fundació Gala - Salvador Dalí". www.salvador-dali.org. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
- ^ a b c d "Archive: Artwork Details". The Dali. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ a b c Germana, Monica; Mousoutzanis, Aris (2014). Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-71258-3.
- ^ Wunderle, Abigail; Harkness, Shaina (August 11, 2016). "The First Part of the Life and Achievements of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha". The Dali. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
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- List of works
- Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
- Vilabertran (1913)
- Cabaret Scene (1922)
- Portrait of My Father (1925)
- Young Woman at a Window (1925)
- The Basket of Bread (1926)
- Apparatus and Hand (1927)
- The Lugubrious Game (1929)
- The First Days of Spring (1929)
- The Accommodations of Desire (1929)
- The Great Masturbator (1929)
- The Invisible Man (1929–1932)
- The Persistence of Memory (1931)
- The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
- Morphological Echo (1934–1936)
- A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936)
- Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937)
- Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
- The Burning Giraffe (1937)
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
- Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
- Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
- The Enigma of Hitler (1939)
- Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
- The Face of War (1940)
- Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
- Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1944)
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
- Basket of Bread (1945)
- The Apotheosis of Homer (1945)
- The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
- The Elephants (1948)
- Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
- Leda Atomica (1949)
- The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
- Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
- Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
- The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954)
- The Colossus of Rhodes (1954)
- Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
- Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
- The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
- Living Still Life (1956)
- The Seven Lively Arts (1957)
- The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
- The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
- Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
- La Gare de Perpignan (1965)
- Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
- The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970)
- La Toile Daligram (1972)
- Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973)
- Lincoln in Dalivision (1977)
- The Swallow's Tail (1983)
- Lobster Telephone (1936)
- Lobster dress (1937)
- Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
- Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
- Rainy Taxi (1938)
- A Logician Devil (1951)
- Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
- The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
- Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
- Être Dieu (1985)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- L'Age d'Or (1930)
- Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
- Destino (1946, completed 2003)
and costumes
- Mariana Pineda (1927 production)
- Gala Dalí (wife)
- Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
- Paranoiac-critical method
- Salvador Dalí and dance
- Chupa Chups
- Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph)
- Salvador Dalí (1966 film)
- The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film)
- Little Ashes (2008 film)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Dalíland (2022 film)
- "Salvador Dalí" (song)
- 2919 Dali (asteroid)
- Dali crater
- Salvador Dalí Desert
- Dalí cross
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