Salvador Dali: 20th Century Renaissance Artist
Salvador Dali: 20th Century Renaissance Artist
Lecturer: Julia Musgrave
‘The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret’ – Salvador Dalí.
Like the Renaissance artists he admired, Salvador Dalí did not restrict himself to painting. He was also a writer, poet, engraver, sculptor, architect, photographer, theatre designer, and jewellery designer. Dalí even selected the materials to be used in his jewellery and some pieces, often of symbolic meaning, are considered to be as exceptional as his paintings.
He also was an omnivorous reader who was as interested in science as he was in art and, in this, his work also reflects the Renaissance artists he admired. This lecture explores the work of Dalí the designer and science enthusiast – a Renaissance artist in the 20th century.
Julia Musgrave got her first degree in Chemical Engineering and went on to become a Chartered Information Systems Engineer and IT project manager. In 2008 she decided that life was too short for just one career and decided to become an art historian. She now has a Graduate Diploma in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MLitt in ‘Art, Style and Design: Renaissance to Modernism, c.1450 – c.1930’ from the University of Glasgow.
She is currently working towards her Ph.D. at the University of York on the involvement of Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group in the development of the Contemporary Art Society from 1910 to 1937 and lectures in Art History at the City Literary Institute (City Lit).