Throughout his life and career, renowned surrealist Salvador Dal√ɬ≠ maintained a deep connection with film as an artistic medium. He collaborated with movie greats such as Luis Bu√ɬ±uel, Alfred Hitchcock, and Walt Disney, and created works influenced by Cecil B. De Mille and the Marx Brothers. Dal√ɬ≠: Painting & Film, coming to Los Angeles, the epicenter of film, aims to illustrate the cinematic influences and elements that are present in Dal√ɬ≠'s work as well as the contribution he made to cinema. The exhibition brings tog... Read more

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