Some aspects of Dalí: erotic drive, Don Quixote and quantum physics.
On numerous occasions, Salvador Dalí declared that eroticism was a divine thing, inseparable from mysticism, since Eros was a god . The genius of Ampurdán immersed himself fearlessly into the realm of erotic drives and the Oedipal traumas involved in them.
One of Dalí’s drawings that Setdart gathers in his ongoing auctions contains several sketches of erotic content , showing anatomical sections, masturbations, male figures related to Greek satyrs, and female forms metamorphosing into chickens. In the same role, the central place is occupied by a preparatory study for the painting “Living Still Life” (1956, kept at the Dalí Museum in Florida). Many elements already appear in this sketch that will be present in the final canvas: a series of objects (bottles, knives, fruits or spheres) levitating on a table, moving at will or according to Dalí’s interpretation of the atomic laws as they were being formulated by quantum physics, which so fascinated the surrealist painter. Dalí called this plastic research “nuclear mysticism”.