Dalí at Tate Modern

‘God save the King!’ was one of Dalí’s last, typically provocative, public pronouncements. As two touring centenary exhibitions of his work continue, Vincent Pécoil goes beyond the common perception of the Surrealist master to explore his profound influence on popular culture, from Vogue magazine cover and Chupa Chups sweet wrapper designs to his fascination with the world of cinema

Salvador Dalí as filmmaker? Roy Disney on the artist’s collaboration with his Uncle Walt

Salvador Dalí as filmmaker? A strange idea to those who think he was little more than a one-time collaborator with Luis Buñuel and consultant to Hitchcock on Spellbound. However Dalí, connecting with the first wave of Modernists, had a lifelong obsession with film.

To coincide with Tate Modern’s exhibition exploring his work as a film-maker, Jonas Mekas remembers the Dalí happenings.

In 1976 Salvador Dalí made a film with José Montes Baquer called Impressions of Upper Mongolia, Hommage to Raymond Roussel, partly in response to a brief correspondence with the French author and forefather of the Surrealists. The origins of its making are as surreal as the film itself.