TECHNICAL INFORMATION
TECHNIQUE
Gravure originale
DATE D’ÉDITION
1971
RÉFÉRENCE
“The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali” by Albert Field. Ref. 71-8, page P.123-125. Published by The Salvador Dali Archives
Description
Salvador Dalí is best known for the unique surrealist vision he had of the world and for his use of fantastic symbols to create true masterpieces.
Miguel de Cervantes’ objective was above all to criticize the chivalric and courtly world through the parody of chivalric novels that were very popular at the time. Don Quixote is vibrant strength, absolute conviction even in defeat, the triumph of dreams beyond reality. Yet, his madness is also his nobility. His battles are those of a man who dreams of something greater and more beautiful than what the real world offers him to contemplate, because he cannot be satisfied with reality. Sancho Panza, whose main concern is, as his name suggests, to fill his stomach, believes that his master suffers from visions, yet adapts himself to his master’s conception of the world.
Dalí, known for his creations and depictions of characters through the technique of swirling engraving, sought here to represent Don Quixote’s madness in a whirlwind of delirium.