When I was in croatia I got the opportunity to see an exhibition of Salvador Dali's visual interpretation of the Divine Comedy. I had never heard of these works of his, and was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that the works in this exhibition were quite different from his most famous works. Here is a short description of the book containing these works.
Between 1951 and 1960, Dali created 101 watercolor drawings to interpret the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy, a poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). These works have been reproduced using a wood engraving technique. With this technique, wood engravers carved 3500 blocks for the prints that make up the suite. These 100 woodblock engravings were published as a set of six volumes. Each volume has a title page, a table of contents, and justification page contained in a cardboard slip case with matching inner boards. Each woodblock from the Salvador Dali Divine Comedy is part of a Canto or book chapter which is about 8 pages in length.
Here is a link to the expo:
http://www.inyourpocket.com/croatia/split/concerts-culture-events-entertainment/Exhibitions/Salvador-Dali:-La-Divina-Commedia,-1963-1964_62905v
Very interesting. The work seems much fresher and more contemporary than the more famous oil paintings.
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