dirty Dali: a private view
Directed By Guy Evans (2007)
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Critic Brian Sewell had a “mutually confessional” sexual friendship with surrealist master Salvador Dali, which flowered over four summers at DalÃ’s home in Spain. Sewell makes the case that Dalà was a painter of technical brilliance whose talent reached its high point in the 1930s, but declined into vulgarity when he moved to the US and embraced the cult of celebrity.
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Critic’s surreal briefs encounter
Peter Bradshaw
Saturday June 2, 2007
The Guardian
The elegant, mellifluously voiced art critic Brian Sewell has always had the ability to startle. With his sensational Channel 4 TV documentary about Salvador DalÃ, he may have created his masterpiece.
Entitled Dirty DalÃ, it recounts the story of his “mutually confessional” friendship with the surrealist master, which flowered over four summers at DalÃ’s home in Cadaques on the Costa Brava in the late 60s and early 70s. Sewell was a comely young man holidaying alone, and the ageing Dalà invited him back to his house for lunch à trois with his wife, Gala.
Sewell fans will not easily recover from a photograph of the great critic on the beach clad only in the briefest pair of Speedo-style swimming trunks.
The bigger shock is Sewell’s revelation that after a long and convivial meal, Dalà took him for a walk in the garden, where he prevailed upon Sewell to remove his clothes, lie down next to an enormous statue of the reclining Christ - and masturbate, while Dalà snapped away with a camera and “fumbled in his trousers”.
Sewell says he believes the camera was empty, and Dalà was a mere voyeur. And yet his documentary shows DalÒs house festooned with thousands of photographs, and Sewell appears to concede that an enormous, secret photo-archive of such encounters could exist.
The superbly candid programme outlines Sewell’s belief that Dalà was a painter of technical brilliance whose talent reached its high point in the 1930s, but declined into vulgarity when he moved to the US and embraced the cult of celebrity.
The documentary was timed to complement the Dalà and Film exhibition at Tate Modern (ending sept 9, 2007).
Great docu. Thanks for posting.
Comment by ankh156 — put December 29, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
Say what you will about Dali’s art after coming to the United States . . . to me, Sewell’s insights into Dali’s world only informs his genius even further.
Comment by Volcano Kango — put January 6, 2008 @ 5:00 am
>Dalà was a painter of technical brilliance
“technical brilliance”? that’s how you describe a musician who get’s all the notes right, but who’s performance lacked expressivity and emotional depth.
What does technical brilliance even mean in Surrealism? He mixes colors and gets perspective correct?
>declined into vulgarity
talk about declining to vulgarity the review has four paragraphs about gay sex. Is that all the film is about? It seems that is all the review got out of it. I’m interested in Dali’s ideas and art, but not too interested in where he put his penis.
Comment by Max Hodges — put January 6, 2008 @ 7:32 am
ya max…as long as your boss at TMZ doesn’t use his penis on you…happy hounding…brit
Comment by britney — put January 16, 2008 @ 3:45 am