| » Forum Index » The Friday Challenge » Topic: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom |
|
Posted on 20/04/18 08:50:13 AM |
|
Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 7025 Reply  |
Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
I spent last weekend with friends in northern Spain, and visited the house where Salvador Dali lived for most of his life. It was very entertaining, but I was surprised by how bourgeois his bedroom was - totally lacking in surrealism. Can you give it the full Dali treatment? High res is here.  |
Posted on 20/04/18 11:45:45 PM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Here's a quickie I put together after getting home from the golf course today... Mural is Dali's Rock N Roll from 1944.  |
Posted on 21/04/18 7:46:29 PM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Here's my last one for this week... Drape over beds - Le Sommeil (Sleep) - 1937 Floor treatment - Head Exploding - 1951 Mural - Palladio's Corridor of Dramatic Surprise - 1938 
|
Posted on 21/04/18 9:49:57 PM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Beat me to it Lwc! One of Dali's least known oeuvres is probably "Les Diners de Gala". It was was a sensual, sybaritic semi erotic cookbook illustrated by Dali with recipes from anonymous chefs - supposedly from La Tour D'Argent and Maxim's. Published just once by him in 1973 it was recently re-published by Taschen who had this to say about it: "Ever heard of surrealist fine dining? This must-have reprint of 'Les diners de Gala' reveals the exotic flavors and elaborate imaginings behind the legendary dinner parties of Salvador and Gala Dalí. With recipes from such leading Paris restaurants as La Tour d’Argent and Maxim’s, a special section on aphrodisia, and bespoke illustrations from Dalí himself, this book is at once an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a delicious morsel of multisensory pleasure." All the Dali images I have used here come from this one unusual source .......  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/18 9:55:31 PM |
|
DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5675 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
......... and thank you Steve for making me have to cut around that d*mn bedhead ........ ! The only other contributor so far had the excellent good sense to avoid it!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/18 10:19:23 PM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
 That bedhead is the very first thing I noticed and quickly thought... I'm not doin' that!!
My laziness prevailed again. You did a great job though David.  |
Posted on 22/04/18 11:05:33 AM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
I enjoyed this challenge and putting everything together in this Dali Mish Mash. Great challenge http://vimeo.com/265938720  _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 22/04/18 11:49:35 AM |
|
lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3229 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Wonderful! I especially like the Lobster Telephone ringing! |
Posted on 23/04/18 00:42:23 AM |
|
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Anna, you must have been in 7th heaven with this one! Here is my attempt at a Dali-est painting. Not as successful as I had hoped. Animation: http://vimeo.com/266799075 
_________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 23/04/18 05:09:34 AM |
|
vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
I couldn't resist this one, All but the 'Master' himself, my own photographs from 2011. Taken at Port Lligat, Figueres and Pūbel.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 23/04/18 05:10:45 AM |
|
vibeke
Kreative Kiwi Posts: 2166 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
And my photo from the same bedroom in 2011, Nothing has changed.  _________________ Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. |
Posted on 24/04/18 03:14:48 AM |
|
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Actually, I think the stuffed kid goat or rabbit or whatever it is, is facing the other direction. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 24/04/18 09:54:09 AM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Thank you Loyd. The lobster phone now lives in the National Gallery of Australia. I saw it some years ago when I was in Canberra. _________________ Wicked Witch of the West:I'll get you, my pretty! And your little dog, too! |
Posted on 25/04/18 9:37:46 PM |
|
dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 920 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
My eyes are sore, my head is throbbing trying to keep check of all the surreal strangeness. I don't care to look for any more mistakes. Art like this just goes on and on. Nice images everybody.  _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 26/04/18 1:29:32 PM |
|
GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 4002 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Good work everyone. Sorry not to be able to come out to play this week as things have been a bit surreal around here lately. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 26/04/18 1:55:52 PM |
|
Jota120
Ingenious Inventor Posts: 2615 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Interesting well done entries. Surreal Dwindt! This was not my intention, it was going to take a different more surreal path, but no time for a 2nd one now, missed the chance  . Another day.
Gala (girl looking out of a window), Dali and ......? |
Posted on 26/04/18 3:13:48 PM |
|
Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply  |
Sally Doolally
 |
Posted on 27/04/18 03:13:08 AM |
|
srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Very nice, Michael, dwindt and Trevor. Much better than my attempt. I'm afraid my animation is disappointing too. I wanted to have the spheres subtly move as if floating on a breeze. However, I spent all my time getting all those limbs to move and they don't work like reality. But then, this is supposed to be surreal. I really need a way to afford not to have to spend so much time earning the rent and doing mundane tasks like laundry, shopping, and cooking. Animation: http://vimeo.com/266799075 _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 27/04/18 06:24:25 AM |
|
Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3062 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Thank you Sara. |
Posted on 27/04/18 06:52:52 AM |
|
tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2898 Reply |
Re: Challenge 702: Dali's bedroom
Sara, the walking butterfly is brilliant! _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
| page: 1 2 last |