Salvador Dalí shows the set up from which he hopes to obtain the painting, a sea urchin is placed on an overturned inkwell glass and in its mouth, the"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.
With his signature intense gaze, Salvador Dalí reveals the surrealist technique behind an abstract artwork at his Portlligat home in 1957. In the foreground, an apparatus is assembled: a sea urchin is placed atop an overturned glass, and a delicate dried flower is inserted into its mouth, the "Aristotle's lantern." The flower lightly touches a sheet of blackened paper, allowing the animal's subtle movements to be traced, creating the wispy, high-contrast composition seen on the easel behind him.
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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