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Exhibition Dali - Audio Guide

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Exhibition Dali - Audio Guide
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Episodes

Dali jewels

Explores Dali’s introduction to the Parisian fashion world through the creation of his spectacular jewels.

May 25, 20103 min

Late Dali

Discusses Dali’s late years, the passing of his beloved Gala and the death of the world's most recognisable artist.

May 25, 20104 min

Dali and Halsman

Halsman was the perfect partner for realising Dalí’s ever complex ideas in the medium of photography.

May 25, 20103 min

Dali and nuclear mysticism

Discusses Salvador Dali, nuclear mysticism and the explosion of the first Atomic Bomb.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali and the ballet

Discusses Dalí’s extraordinary costumes for the Ballets Russes and the events that surround the opening of Léonide Massine’s Bachannale in New York.

May 25, 20104 min

Dali and Hollywood

Dalí loved the idea of Hollywood, with its razzle-dazzle and celebrity and, of course, its potential to reach vast international audiences.

May 25, 20106 min

Dali and Freud

Discusses Dali's fascination with Freud and their first meeting which by many accounts did not go particularly swimmingly.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali and America

The circumstances of World War II forced Dali and Gala into exile in 1940 - they fled to America where Dalí had become famous.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali and war

Discusses Dalí’s politics and life through a time of civil war in Spain and his narrow escape to France.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali and New York

It had become evident that Dali's fame rested as much on his antics as his art. Is it really true that Dali was nearly decapitated in 1939?

May 25, 20104 min

Dali and Melbourne

Discusses the showing of Dalí’s work, Memory of the Child-Woman, in the 1939 great exhibition of modern art, during an era where Dalí’s reputation as a significant artist preceded the arrival of his work.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali, Paris and Surrealism

Discusses Dalí's meeting with André Breton in Paris and his involvement in the Surrealist movement.

May 25, 20106 min

Gala as Dali's muse

Discusses the mysterious Gala, Dalí's muse and collaborator.

May 25, 20104 min

Dali meets Gala

Discusses Dali's fateful meeting with Gala in 1929 and the repercussions in Dalí’s family life.

May 25, 20104 min

Dali and Buñuel

Dalí and Buñuel collaborate to create the first surrealist movie Un Chien andalou, an Andalusian dog.

May 25, 20105 min

Dali and Madrid

Explores Dalí’s education and the initial meeting of Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca.

May 25, 20104 min

Dali's childhood

Discusses Dalí’s childhood and family life in Figueres, Spain.

May 25, 20104 min
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