Art lovers were able to view a fragment of the work of a contemporary grandmaster of world renown at the Stalowa Wola Regional Museum.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Spanish painter and graphic artist, associated with the Surrealist movement, one of the most outstanding contemporary artists – was commissioned by the Italian government in 1950 to illustrate an exclusive edition of The Divine Comedy prepared on the occasion of the author’s seven hundredth birthday.
These works are often judged to be the artist’s greatest illustration achievement. The graphic illustrations for The Divine Comedy involve the ‘transfer’ of watercolour into the woodcut technique.
The presentation of the series of works by Dali, prepared by the Polish-German company Lep Art Consulting, consists of 100 woodcuts by Dali, the books of The Divine Comedy, in addition to showing the very method of creating a colour woodcut, spread over individual layers of colour.
