Dalí: Painting & Film

October 14, 2007–January 6, 2008 | Art of the Americas Building

Throughout his life and career, renowned surrealist Salvador Dalí maintained a deep connection with film as an artistic medium. He collaborated with movie greats such as Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney, and created works influenced by Cecil B. De Mille and the Marx Brothers. Dalí: Painting & Film, coming to Los Angeles, the epicenter of film, aims to illustrate the cinematic influences and elements that are present in Dalí's work as well as the contribution he made to cinema. The exhibition brings together a variety of key pieces from Dalí's oeuvre, incorporating painting, film, photography, sculpture, and texts.

The exhibition was curated by Dawn Ades, Montse Aguer, Fèlix Fanés, Matthew Gale, and Helen Sainsbury. Curators at LACMA: Ilene Fort, American Art, and Sara Cochran, Modern Art. This exhibition was organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, Spain, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part by LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Director’s Endowment Fund. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

ONLINE

Q&A with co-curator Sara Cochran

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Talks & Courses
Surreal Things: Surrealism & Design
October 15

Special Exhibition Lecture
November 3

Conversations with Artists: Mike Kelley & Jim Shaw
November 18

Special Exhibition Lecture—California Dreaming: Dali and the Golden State
December 1

Film
European Surrealism and American Avant-Garde Films
November 2–24

Possessed! Hollywood Embraces Freud
December 1–14

ADMISSION

Dali: Painting & Film is sold out for the duration of the exhibition.