Exhibition Dali - Audio Guide

Discusses Dalí’s politics and life through a time of civil war in Spain and his narrow escape to France.

Discusses the showing of Dalí’s work, Memory of the Child-Woman, in the 1939 great exhibition of modern art, during an era where Dalí’s reputation as a significant artist preceded the arrival of his work.

It had become evident that Dali's fame rested as much on his antics as his art. Is it really true that Dali was nearly decapitated in 1939?

Discusses Dalí's meeting with André Breton in Paris and his involvement in the Surrealist movement.

Discusses the mysterious Gala, Dalí's muse and collaborator.

Discusses Dali's fateful meeting with Gala in 1929 and the repercussions in Dalí’s family life.

Dalí and Buñuel collaborate to create the first surrealist movie Un Chien andalou, an Andalusian dog.

Discusses Dalí’s childhood and family life in Figueres, Spain.

Explores Dalí’s education and the initial meeting of Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca.

Dr Gerard Vaughan introduces the exhibition Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire (NGV International 2009).