CAP DE CREUS (2) BY SALVADOR DALI

SALVADOR DALI  (1904-1989) 

Cap de Creus (672 m - 2, 205ft)

Spain

In Paysage de Port Lligat avant la tempête, 1956, oil on canvas, 64,3 x 86,6 cm, Dali Museum 

The mountain 

Cap de Creus (672 m - 2, 205ft) is a peninsula and a headland located at the far northeast of Catalonia (Spain), some 25 kilometres (16 mi) south from the French border. The cape lies in the municipal area of Cadaquès, and the nearest large town is Figueres, capital of the Alt Empordа and birthplace of Salvador Dali. Cadaquès is the most well known village, home of artists and writers, with sophisticated atmosphere, near Port Lligat where Dali built his home in a paradise small bay. (Dalн depicted Cap de Creus in four of his most famous paintings : The Persistence of Memory in 1931 (above), Untitled (Persistence of Fair Weather) 1932-34 , Le Spectre du sex appeal in 1934 (above) and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1952-54 

Cap de Creus is the easternmost point of Catalonia and therefore of mainland Spain and the Iberian Peninsula. Mountains are the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, the natural border between France and Spain. The peninsula has an area of 190 square kilometres (73 sq mi) of an extraordinary landscape value; a windbeaten very rocky dry region, with almost no trees, in contrast with a seaside rich in minuscule creeks of deep blue sea to anchor.The region is frequently swept by awful north wind "tramontana" (beyond mountains) which has caused many naval disasters.

Sant Pere de Rodes stands out at 500 metres (1,600 ft) of altitude, with views of the Cap and the Pyrenees. It is an 11th-century monastery whose first structures date from about 750 AD.

One legend tells that the Cap de Creus was hewn by Hercules.

The painter 

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

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