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SD 01
h. 8.0 cm |
Soft self-portrait with fried bacon (1941) Dalí himself styles
his self-portrait as "an anti-psychological self-portrait, instead of
painting the soul, or the inner of one-self, to paint solely the
appearance, the cover, my soul's glove. This glove of my soul can be
eaten and is even a little sharp, like high-bred game; therefor ants
appear together with the fried bacon. As the most generous of all
painters I continuously offer myself as food and thus give our era the
most delicious delicacies." Dalí painted this self-portrait during his
eight-year-exile in the United States, where he had fled from the
Spanish civil war. The, sometimes, childlike enthusiasm and the drive of
the American society appealed to Dalí and he had a most productive
period there. Under this influence he appeared to reverse his "paranoid-critical"
method. Now he painted more from the inside out, as his comment on his
self-portrait indicates.
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