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Surrealist Newton
Bronze, 49 cm

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About the artwork

Dalí pays homage to Isaac Newton for his discovery of the law of gravity symbolized by the apple falling from a tree. The famous apple has been transformed into a hard sphere hanging from a string. It appears to be halted mid- flight, the cord representing the fall of the apple. In this sculpture, Dalí implies that the living being Newton has become a mere name in science, entirely stripped of his personality and individuality. His incredible and revolutionary laws of motion take centre place obscuring all personal details of Newton himself. To depict this transformation, Dalí has pierced the figure with two eye-catching holes, the oval in the head suggests open mindedness whilst the large opening in the torso portrays the absence of Newton’s physical body. The opening in the chest and the way light shines through is a perfect symbolic allusion to another of the physician’s discoveries, on the subject of light.

About the artist

Born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Dalí’s eccentric nature and talent for self-promotion made him the most famous representative of the surrealist movement and one of the most widely recognised artists in the world. Identified as an artistic prodigy from a tender age, Dalí attended the drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. In 1922, he enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid and received recognition during his first solo show held in Barcelona in 1925. Dalí became internationally known after the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 and grew to immense notoriety and fame. Today, his sculptures and paintings are exhibited in the most prestigious museums in the world and part of many coveted private and public collections.

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