http://www.ballardian.com/archaeological-finds Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ballardian.com/archaeological-finds/comment-page-1#comment-797 Tim Chapman Sat, 26 May 2007 13:47:34 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/archaeological-finds/#comment-797 I'll pop this here in Simon's absence - a <a href="http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2088399,00.html" rel="nofollow">new essay</a> from JGB on Dali and film, to tie in the Tate's <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/daliandfilm/default.shtm" rel="nofollow">current exhibition</a>. <i>Most important of all, though, in our revaluation of Dali, is the lens through which we see his paintings. We no longer live in a literary culture, and the human eye has been fine-tuned by a half-century of film and television. Dali's paintings, with their distant horizon lines, pseudo-Renaissance perspectives and mentalised stage-sets, are naturals for the age of the plasma TV screen. Our attention spans have shrunk to a single film-frame, and when we look at a Dali painting we can instantly construct the rest of the movie from the key frame that he offers us.</i> I’ll pop this here in Simon’s absence – a new essay from JGB on Dali and film, to tie in the Tate’s current exhibition.
Most important of all, though, in our revaluation of Dali, is the lens through which we see his paintings. We no longer live in a literary culture, and the human eye has been fine-tuned by a half-century of film and television. Dali’s paintings, with their distant horizon lines, pseudo-Renaissance perspectives and mentalised stage-sets, are naturals for the age of the plasma TV screen. Our attention spans have shrunk to a single film-frame, and when we look at a Dali painting we can instantly construct the rest of the movie from the key frame that he offers us.

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