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At the Salvador Dali Museum, which is located in St. Petersburg (USA, Florida), not only can you watch now immortal mystical paintings of great spanish surrealist artist, but also to visit inside one of the most piercing his canvases, namely – paintings “Archaeological an echo of “Angelus Millet” (1935). This is a sacrament for Museum visitors will last until June 12 of this year.
This amazing in its power effects on the subconscious Dali wrote a picture of a man under the impression of no less strong canvases of the French artist Jean-Francois Millet – “Angelus” (“L’Angélus”). Millet created his famous painting, which received the name from the first words of the most famous Catholic prayers “Angelus Domini” commissioned by the American painter Thomas Appleton, who was shocked by another, earlier canvas French artist – “Gathering ears”. Picture “Angelus” was written by Mile in the same style, only more strongly if possible put it that way. On it we see the peasant and his wife, who at sunset, after a hard day, they stand on the field with their heads bowed, and listen to the distant church ringing.
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For some reason, the American did not buy the order, and Mile sold “Angelus” in 1860 for only a thousand francs. However the picture had such a tremendous success that soon her reproductions hung a little perhaps not in every house in France, and not only in France. In 1889 due of this, which became so popular, the canvases flared up real commercial battle between american agents and french philanthropist Antoine Proust. The Americans eventually won and bought “L’Angélus” for the fabulous price of 580 at that time thousand francs. However, they didn’t manage to take out the picture from France, since another French philanthropist, publisher of the Louvre magazine Alfred Shoshar offered the Americans 800 thousand francs for it, and those did not resist. After that, “Angelus” will decorate the Louvre until 1909, until he moved to the Orsay Museum.
This fantastic canvas inspired Dali to create a series of paintings under the general name “Angelus”, among which the famous “Archaeological Echo of” Angelus Millet “, virtual reality inside which the artists of the agency created Goodby Silverstein & Partners invited for this interesting work by the leadership of the museum. We suggest you look into this strange and at the same time such a piercingly attractive world Surrealism Salvador Dali.
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