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A Study on the Meaning of Cubic Form by Salvador Dali - Focus on Salvador Dali's Work 'A Propos of the Treatise on Cubic Form by Juan de Herrera, 1960' -  

Kim, Sung-Hye (협성대학교 실내디자인학과)
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Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal / v.20, no.6, 2011 , pp. 145-152 More about this Journal
Abstract
Salvador Dali put a title of his work as 'A Propos of the Treatise on Cubic Form by Juan de Herrera' at 1960. Through this work which is consisted in cube frame surrounding black and white letter squares and nails in the sky, he directly referred about the cube which were showed in his pictures. To understand the meaning of this work, Dali's paintings and Juan de Herrera's design and architectural ideas are analysed by building. His concerning about absolute existence like god and nuclear takes the cubic form by Juan de Herrera instead of pictorial tendencies of Cubism, however pictorial elements such as sky and nails were still used in the work. He use alphabet letter as pattern consisting wall and symbol representing 'Juan de Herrera', moreover number '2' is taken to show up line attribute. Dali had several design develop process, and finally he reached an new stage called 'Hypercube'. Hypercube can distinguish from Cubism and Herrera's architectural idea, and it will be free from objective world based in Euclid geometry. Although cubic is the simplest shape. It can contain the variety of developments in these fields - philosophy, architecture, painting and etc.- from Platon to nuclear physics and coexists in a picture of Salvador Dali.
Keywords
Salvador Dali; Cubic Form; Herrera; Mathematic;
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