The Minotaur - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
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The Minotaur - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Blasphemers - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Minos - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Greed - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Greed, from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions.
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Chronology of Cacciaguida - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Heaven of Jupiter - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Irascibile - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
The Irascibile from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri is a woodcut print by Salvador Dalì , realized in 1963.
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The Traitors - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Avaricious - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Simonists - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Fraudulent - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Centaur - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Heretics - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Sodomites - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Giants - Woodcut print - 1964
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Angry Ones - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Blasphermers - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Brunetto Latini - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Archangel Gabriel - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Church and Empire - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Ascent to Venus - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Archangel Gabriel - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Dante and Beatrice - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Vanni Fucci's Prophecy - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Golden Age - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Angry Ones - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Hell Plate 29 - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Two Crown - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Dust of Souls - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Virgin Announced - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Superbs - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
The Superbs - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" Song 11- Purgatory is a woodcut print realized by S. Dalì in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Com...
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Ecstatic Visions - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Ecstatic Visions - Purgatory- from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized by Dalì in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by D...
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Virgil Comforts Dante - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Beauty of Beatrice - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Divine Wood - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Souls of Contumacy - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Angel of Mercy - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Purgatory Song 4 - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Beatrice and Rachele - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Forest of Suicides - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Forth Terrace - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Portrait of Dante - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Suicides - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Tyrants - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Heretics - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Guardians - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Sodomites - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Brunetto Latini - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Souls - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Piccarda Donati - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Piccarda Donati from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions.
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Dante Alighieri - Woodcut Print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dante Alighieri - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions.
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Bertrand de Born - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Hands of Antaeus -Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Black Cherub - Woodcut print - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Beatrice Solves Dante’s Doubts - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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Saint Peter to Dante - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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The Tree of Punishment - Woodcut - 1963
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Roma, IT
Dalí painted 100 watercolors in preparation for the publication of the “Divine Comedy.”
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In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.
Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.
Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.
Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)
The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.
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Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.
Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.
Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.
Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.
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