Dali Portrait

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

By Bianca Gubalke

Dali Portrait

I have always been an admirer of Surrealistic Art… and its probably most famous as well as eccentric representative, the Spanish Catalan painter Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989).

Dali Quotes

Dali had in excess what many artists lack: an unequalled and highly original way to promote Dali. . . if not the “Dali Universe”.

Besides, and what just the real “Dalinados” probably know, he had an incredible talent to write and I personally believe that he lived in a fantastic era for that, meeting and cooperating with brilliant artists in other creative areas, eg. cinema (Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock), photography (Man Ray) and Fashion Design (Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli) to name just a few.

What a buzzing world of hyper-creativity!

When I recently came across one of the many thought-evoking Dali quotes it tickled me to react … I knew my time would come… sooner or later :)

Dali Photos

Salvador Dali

Sooner happened rather soon… when due to the usual serendipity I experience in all areas of my life, a friend sent me a tiny Dali Photo with two striking features:

~ the exaggerated expression in “His Master’s Eyes” as you see right here . . . and

~ the Dali-only moustache with an upward twirl that defies even the slightest note of humility!

The Creative Process

I don’t know who took that photo and it seems there are a whole number of versions on the net, however, that ‘look’ inspired me to firstly do some Advertising for YORGOO Booster HERE… and, as we are developing our web presence in Web Design – which includes Graphics and… Art – I started experimenting with the exact features in Photoshop that I described in my “How to Create Web Graphics” series . . . bearing in mind that I am an Artist and just constantly learning and refining my online skills – and sharing the results with anyone who enjoys the same journey.

From my first traditional exhibitions, I always work in series… as it’s the creative process itself that interests, inspires and often surprises me like a child.

Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke

So all I started out with was the picture above and the quote. Here are some examples of the series of transformations under the title “Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke” that I have come up with…

Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke - Transformations 1

So you wonder where Dali is in here?

Just wait. . . he’s all over, above and below and omnipresent . . . in typical Dali-style!

Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke - Transformations 2

. . . that quote still makes me smile. . . and smiles bring colour into our lives. . .

Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke - Transformations 3

These might make good ‘foulards’. . . imagine those fine colours on silk! Obviously, I would polish the blue-white bevels around the outer edges a bit for more harmony, but the basic layout and direction is here.

Actually. . . this reminds me of when I won the annual national Competition for Textile Design in France by accident. . . as what I did then was “Art Mural”and the closest I came to textile design were my large cartons for Gobelins :)

Dali Portrait by Bianca Gubalke - Transformations 4

And all I started off with was that one little picture at the top … from where I created this series of portraits (each portrait is much larger that you see it here or even through the zoom)…, which then became the material for my “Transformations”.