Dali Salad II
Red Grooms
1980
- Medium
- Artist's multiple, three-dimensional color lithograph and screenprint on Arches Cover paper (white and black), Rives BFK Journal paper, Japanese paper, and vinyl, cut out, glued, and mounted on white painted backing board, framed and covered with a Plexiglas dome
- Dimensions
- 23 x 24 x 10 in. (58.42 x 60.96 x 25.4 cm) (image) 26 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (67.31 x 69.85 x 31.75 cm) (dome)
- Genre
- Multiples
Tags
United States
About
Grooms' audacious portrait of the Surrealist artist-provocateur Salvador Dali emerging from a bowl of salad greens satirizes the traditional notions of portraiture, dream imagery, and indeed, Dali himself, whose disembodied head is served up on a platter. For this remarkably complex project, Grooms used fresh vegetables he purchased at a Minneapolis supermarket as the models for his salad ingredients, which were recreated as screenprints on vinyl. Painted ping pong balls were used for Dali's intense gaze.
