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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/2440/2447-14.jpg
Title	Board of Demented Associations (Fireworks).
Creator	Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989)
Date	1930-1931
Cultural Context	Spanish European Western European
Style/Period	Surrealist Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Avant-garde Imagery Symbolism (artistic concept) Symbols Sex Sexuality Erotica Eroticism Phallic Male Female Figures (representations) Women Men (male humans) Portraits Self-portraits Nudes (representations) Nudity Costume (mode of fashion) Shoes (footwear) Pumps (shoes) Footwear Keys (hardware) Fireworks (explosive equipment) Explosive Jugs (vessels) Vessels (containers) Containers (receptacles) Locusts
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Symbols Lust Erotica Sex Relations between the sexes Human body Body parts Women Men Portraits Self-portraits Nudes Clothing & dress Footwear Shoes Keys (Hardware) Fireworks Firecrackers Explosives Containers Pitchers Butterflies Ants Insects Locusts
Description	"The dedication reads 'Painted for Paul Éluard by his friend Salvador Dalí'. Éluard, who enjoyed his erotica as much as Dali, must have been impressed by this tour de force." (Caption); "One of his earliest ventures was Board of Demented Associations, or Fireworks (1930-1), in which he appropriated an exquisitely worked box of Roman candles, rockets, bangers, Bengal-lights, crackers, squibs and attendant pyrotechnical gadgetry. Each object was meticulously labeled, as if the whole box were a museum piece, Dali adding to the fireworks tiny, meticulous paintings of his obsessive icons of the moment: ladies' high-heeled shoes (one of them with a glass of milk standing inside it, another rubbing a clitoris), William Tell with bleeding eyes, a swarm of ants, Great Masturbators (one with the dreaded locust stuck to its mouth), the jug motif of Dali as idiot, an imaginative copulation (woman on top), the horribly leering male adult, and, on the largest firework in the whole explosive collection, labeled 'Whistling Volcano', a lady in black stockings who raises a leg to show off her genitals." (Excerpt, p.346)
People Pictured	Tell, William Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989
Material	Oil on embossed tin Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Tin (metal) Metal
Measurements	40 x 65.5 cm
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Inscription	Fireworks label on left (#31): AMIGO VOLCAN
Work Type	Oil paintings Paintings
Repository	Private collection
Source	Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XXI)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Private collection.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 2447-14.jpg
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