Deconstructing
Dalí and visiting Figueres
The last
week of the first term, instead of doing ordinary class, we did a little project
about the figure of Salvador Dalí i Domènech, a Catalan artist and his surrealism.
Each group had a piece of Dalí, it could be a picture or a sculpture. Then we
had to do two texts, one about the relationship between Dalí and science and
the other about the symbol of our picture or sculpture and what it meant to
Salvador Dalí. Everything that he painted in his pictures has got a significate
and they transmit something to the spectators. Furthermore, we did a
reinterpretation of our symbol and my group used the technique of “object
trouvé”, and we recycled an old shoe. For Dalí, shoes represented the women,
specifically his wife and muse Gala, and the perfection of her body. Also we
did our blackout poem, a new way to interpret poetry, and it was so interesting
doing it. We summarized all activities in a short oral expression.
On
Wednesday the 21st, to finalize this project, we went to the
Teatre-Museu Salvador Dalí, in Figueres, Girona (Catalunya). There we had a
guide, her name was Petra and she was from Amsterdam. She explained us the
principal characteristics of Dalí’s art and his own world.
Moreover,
when we were in the terrace in the middle of the museum, my tour group did the
famous “Mannequin Challenge”. It was promoted by Petra and our teacher Ms Rosa
Maria Martínez, and she filmed it. After it, we went upstairs and we saw the tomb of
Salvador Dalí, and the spectacular “portrait” of the actress Mae West. It is
made with a sofa, a chimney, a clock and two pictures. But, you have to take
the correct perspective to see it well. Dalí’s art is not easy.
Before returning to Barcelona, my friend Genís and I went to
a very famous bakery of Figueres and we bought some “bunyols de l’Empordà” and
“carquinyolis” to our family.
Here you
have the link of our “Mannequin Challenge”:
Èrik Esteban 1st Btx A
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