Bronty Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 I was checking out the illustration signature, and I saw this Valigursky piece from 1957. I don't know if this is a well known, but it seems clear Steranko swiped it 10 or 12 years later: https://fineart.ha.com/itm/ed-valigursky-american-1926-2009-eye-in-the-sky-paperback-cover-1957-oil-on-board-18-x-11-3-8-inches-457-x-28/a/8055-71022.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 Randall Dowling, Twanj and The Lions Den 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vodou Posted October 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2021 And both "borrowing" heavily from Dali. devilsrain, aardvark88, The Lions Den and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 Boom. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 On 10/4/2021 at 10:11 AM, vodou said: And both "borrowing" heavily from Dali. Do you know the name or date of that cover image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodou Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Hmmm. Even more "swipey" of this one: Salvador Dali's The Eye (1945) is a great piece of art that summarizes how we perceive our reality and amazingly embody our experience. The eye is part of paintings made by Salvador Dali for the dream sequences of the film Spellbound starring Ingrid Bergman and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The painting represents one of the dreams that the psychiatrist (Ingrid Bergman in the movie) was analyzing for her patients. Even run-of-the-mill Dali can sometimes astound - like The Eye, one of five paintings connected with his work on the dream sequence for Hitchcock's Spellbound. No foundation-shaking optical trickery here. Instead, a glassy, weeping eye, suspended in mid-air over a sky like a bruise. It is reminiscent of the eye-slitting scene in Un Chien Andalou, the 1928 film Dali made with Bunuel. Most of all, it underlines that Dali is all about looking: in the early days, work that had to be looked at, and in the later years, work that begged and bullied to be. Here, Salvador Dali created, what Freud said, the eyes of a "candid fanatic". https://www.dalipaintings.com/the-eye.jsp The Lions Den and aardvark88 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodou Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 On 10/4/2021 at 10:14 AM, Bronty said: Do you know the name or date of that cover image? It's a poster print. I'm having difficulty finding the date for the original gouache. Nonetheless The Eye is from the 1940s, so probably around the same time, and that beats everyone. Now Dali wasn't the only surrealist at the time, so maybe someone else was doing similar then too -or even earlier? Bronty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodou Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 As an aside, talk about blowing out the house estimate! comicnoir, Twanj and The Lions Den 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodou Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Having some fun with this on an otherwise boring morning (aka The World Hasn't Blown Up...yet.) This is the earliest Dali I've found merging both the eye (along with face) with lines leading to a vanishing point. I found a site that nicely shows all Dali's final works in thumbnail form chronologically. If one is motivated, it's interesting to see how certain Dali concepts percolate over time. https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/all-works#!#filterName:all-paintings-chronologically,resultType:masonry aardvark88, The Lions Den and Bronty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattTheDuck Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Dali swipe from DaVinci tth2, Randall Dowling and Sideshow Bob 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 can't tell if you're kidding or serious but the eye does kind of resemble the one in the cover to that dali book. Is that a known swipe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rjpb Posted October 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2021 A Dali inspired cover from 1948 vodou, comicnoir, Bird and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Hello Dali! Always the original. My teen-age bedroom was wallpapered with his posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicnoir Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 No eyeball, but give the girl a hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jjonahjameson11 Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 The eye in the sky... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisco37 Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 The classic "Dali swipe": Randall Dowling, Sideshow Bob and tth2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodou Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 On 10/8/2021 at 8:56 AM, chrisco37 said: The classic "Dali swipe": And coincidentally from NYCC 2021 thread, thanks to @AnkurJ - Ecclectica and BCarter27 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
