A new exhibit opening at the Dali Museum

Well, in a major museum collaboration, the Dali Museum in St. Pete and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston are opening an exhibit that you do not want to miss. It brings together works spanning five centuries placed alongside Dali's work. FOX 13 photojournalist Travis Anthony gives us a sneak peek. This exhibition is really conceived as comparisons. We have the kind of work, or maybe the very specific work, that inspired Dali, but he, of course, always put his own take on things. Music As a younger artist, he's a surrealist. He's thinking about the inner workings of the mind, of dreams of Sigmund Freud, and making those visions appear in his paintings. But as an older artist, he is fascinated by developments in physics. in the latter part of his career, which you see in this exhibition, you will see a lot of religious works, which is partially informed by his fascination with the connections, but also his own personal faith, because he, after skeptical youth, became a very devout person in his later decades. Juxtaposing Dali's works with those of the artists from past periods, from the late 1400s, the 1500s, the 1600s, told us a lot about Dali. Of all the artists in this generation, he was the most interested in mining the past, trying to figure out what the lessons were from earlier artists and how, indeed, he could distinguish himself. Most of his contemporaries in the early 20th century are trying to break from the past. They want to do new things. Well, the thing that Dali did was to be very innovative by looking backwards. What you see in this exhibition is he didn't just have one signature style or one kind of subject matter, he does a bit of everything and in almost every case he's looking at the great artists of the past and trying to insert himself into the history of art, right? The artists that he riffs on here Vermeer, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Goya, they were his canon of artistic greatness. But also he's saying he belongs in their company. I think this is an exhibition that people will love to see the similarities and the differences as a truly great mind, a genius, thinks about the artists who came before him. The new exhibit opens to the public tomorrow. For more information, visit the museum's website, thedali.org.