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Title
Dialogue
on the
Beach
(Unsatisfied
Desires)
.
Creator
Dali, Salvador (Spanish painter and printmaker, 1904-1989)
Date
1928
Cultural Context
Spanish
European
Western European
Style/Period
Surrealist
Modern (styles and periods)
Modernist
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Oil paintings (visual works)
Mixed media
Avant-garde
Imagery
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Symbols
Allusion
Fantasy
Dialogues
Communication (function)
Fear
Anxiety
Sex
Sexuality
Eroticism
Female
Male
Phallic
Genitals (animal or human components)
Fingers (animal or human components)
Hands (animal or human components)
Beaches
Subject
Paintings
Oil paintings
Mixed media
Allusions
Symbols
Fantasy
Communication
Fear
Disgrace
Anxiety
Distress
Loneliness
Despair
Lust
Sex
Relations between the sexes
Body parts
Human body
Genitals
Hands
Fingers
Beaches
Description
"The
painting
they
refused
to
show
in
Barcelona.
"
(Caption)
; "
One
of the
most
sexually
provocative
of the
summer's
paintings
was
Dialogue
on the
Beach
,
whose
much
later
title
,
Unsatisfied
Desires
,
clarifies
its
theme
. The
hand
on the
left
, with its
rampantly
phallic
finger
,
is
that of
Dali
the
compulsive
masturbator
, and had been
adumbrated
a
year
earlier
in
Little
Ashes
. But
it
is
also the
male
sexual
apparatus
itself
: the
first
finger
representing
an
erect
penis
,
testicles
the
third
and
fourth
. As for the
red-edged
,
hairy
black
orifice
located
between
the
thumb
and
first
finger
,
it
inescapably
suggests
a
vagina
. The
phallic
finger
points
in the
direction
of the
other
party
to the
dialogue
,
clearly
female
, from
which
the
hand
is
separated
by an
anodyne
grey
space
, as if the
figures
were
located
on
islands
and
attempting
to
communicate
, in
vain
,
over
an
insurmountable
expanse
of
sea
. The
red
,
ribbon-like
form
at the
female's
orifice
echoes
the
one
juxtaposed
with a
thumb
at the
pinnacle
of the
wraith-like
,
Tanguyesque
shape
spiraling
against
the
sky
,
which
Santos
Torroella
interprets
as
representing
the
unsatisfied
desires
of the
picture's
second
title
;
both
draw
the
eye
back
to the
space
,
picked
out
in the
same
red
, at the
centre
of the
masturbatory
hand
.
Dialogue
on the
Beach
,
which
shows
the
formal
influence
of
Miró
,
can
be
read
as the
expression
of
Dali's
despair
at the
sexual
loneliness
to
which
his
inability
to
find
a
partner
was
driving
him, and for
which
shame-ridden
masturbation
was the
only
outlet.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp.232-233)
Material
Mixed media
Oil, seashells, and sand on cardboard
Oil paint (pigmented coating)
Paint
Seashell
Shell (animal material)
Sand
Cardboard
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Oil painting (technique)
Work Type
Paintings
Oil paintings
Mixed media
Repository
Private collection
Source
Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1998. (Color plate XII)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Gibson courtesy: Giraudon/Art Resource, NY.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
835-05.jpg
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