Salvador Dalí et la télévision française

• Autores: Fleur Chevalier
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 183, 2014, págs. 47-54
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Salvador Dali and French television.

    Including over two hundred video documents relating to Salvator Dali from 1948 until his funeral, the television archives of l'INA provide a rich ground for research in relation to the painter. Having rapidly understood the coercive potential of the media, Dali began by appearing on newsreels and, by 1956, invaded the universe of RTF, following a strategy of self promotion similar to that which he used in his "Journal d'un Génie" published in 1964, especially persevering in the provocations that resulted in his exclusion from the Surrealist group. Dali took advantage of this to rewrite the account using the media, proclaiming himself, during an emission, "Permis la Nuit", on 21 April 1967, the inventor of happenings ever since 1930. Seven months later, the artist thus organized his first televised happening on the second channel, on the afternoon of Sunday, November 12th in "Le Petit Dimanche Illustré". After such a diversion, both Pop and a parody, the doors of the television production seemed open to Dali who rushed into the gap, and began a succession of "televisual actions", believing that he was delivering to the public the living paintings in their raw state produced by his paranoiac-critical and subversive mind. This was without reckoning with the involvement of the journalists in the construction of the Dalian myth, manipulated and massively thrown into the arena of a "society of the spectacle" avid for clownish caricatures.