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His first one-man show is held at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. But undoubtedly, Dalí's true magic moment came that year when he met his hero, Sigmund Freud. He depicts the anxiety of the time, visually predicting the violence, horror, and doom many Spaniards felt during General Franco's later rule. An important retrospective show opens in the Seibu Museum in Tokyo.
1965: The Gallery of Modern Art at Columbus Circle in New York holds a major retrospective exhibition of 370 works, which includes the entire Morse Collection.
Produces 42 etchings to illustrate Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont for Albert Skira. Dalí comes to Cleveland for the official opening on March 7. Responding to this expulsion Dalí famously retorted, "I myself am Surrealism." For many years Breton, and some members of the Surrealists, would have a tumultuous relationship with Dalí, sometimes honoring the artist, and other times disassociating themselves from him.
The film turned out to be a sensation and gained Dalí entrance to the most creative group of Parisian artists at the time, The Surrealists. Dalí returns to Spain. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. Their cooperation also produced the famous photograph Dalí Atomicus (1948), and the book Dalí's Mustache (1954), which featured 28 different photographs of the artist's iconic facial hair.
Gelatin silver print
1954
Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity
This painting documents Dalí's interest in exaggerating the representation of the female form and his use of abstracted backgrounds.
Dalí returns to the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Today, we can still see Dalí's influence on artists painting in Surrealist styles, others in the contemporary visionary arts spheres and all over the digital art and illustration spectrums.
Dalí's physical character in the world, eccentric and enigmatic, paved the way for artists to think of themselves as brands.
He began studying the psychoanalytic concepts of Freud as well as metaphysical painters like Giorgio de Chirico and Surrealists like Joan Miró, and consequently began using psychoanalytic methods of mining the subconscious to generate imagery.
Dalí and Gala make their first trip to New York, and his series of special illustrations of the city appears in the American Weekly from February to July. His early encouragement for his son's artistic development was waning as Dalí moved more toward the avant-garde. In later years, he expressed his feelings about Catholicism in this way: "I believe in God but I have no faith.
Madrid unveils the square designed by Dalí, consisting of his sculpture Homage to Newton.
1971: The Morses open their Dalí collection to the public in a wing of their office building.