The set up from which Salvador Dalí hopes to obtain the painting, a sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell glass and in its mouth ("Aristotle's lantern" which has the movements of a human hand) he puts a swan’s feather or here a light dried up flower. The object is allowed to slightly touch a sheet of blackened paper. The movements then made by the sea urchin are traced on the paper. At Salvador Dalí's house, Portlligat, Cadaqués 1957.
Salvador Dalí, in a moment of deep concentration at his home in Portlligat, Cadaqués, 1957, observes an apparatus designed to create a painting. A sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell, its mouth, or "Aristotle's lantern," holding a light, dried flower. The flower lightly touches a sheet of blackened paper, allowing the urchin's movements to be traced into the delicate, branching pattern seen on the small easel before him. His table is cluttered with other urchins, glasses, and a magnifying glass.
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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