{"id":6444,"date":"2018-07-11T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiqets.com\/blog\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T11:14:04","slug":"gala-dali-mnac-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/gala-dali-mnac-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala Dal\u00ed exhibit at MNAC in Barcelona","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2013<\/em>\u00a0This post was written by\u00a0Rayn Millar<\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Behind every great man is a great woman<\/em>” has never been truer than in the case of Salvador Dal\u00ed and his wife Gala Dal\u00ed. No disrespect to Sal and his artistic genius, but Gala was at least as interesting as the mustachioed one. The new ‘Gala Salvador Dal\u00ed. A Room of One\u2019s Own in P\u00fabol’<\/em> exhibition at MNAC explores the life and artistic output of this enigmatic muse-turned-artist.<\/p>\n

Elena Diaknova becomes Gala Dal\u00ed<\/h2>\n

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Gala Dal\u00ed was born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, but came to be known as Gala. “I name my wife: Gala, Galushka, Gradiva; Oliva, for the oval shape of her face and the color of her skin; Oliveta, diminutive for Olive; and its delirious derivatives Oliueta, Oriueta, Buribeta, Buriueteta, Suliueta, Solibubuleta, Oliburibuleta, Ciueta, Liueta. I also call her Lionette, because when she gets angry she roars like the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion.<\/em>” How Salvador remembered all those different nicknames, nobody knows.<\/p>\n

But what we do know is that when this artistic power couple got together, it wasn’t long before Salvador was co-signing his wife’s name on the artworks he produced.<\/p>\n

Salvador himself wrote, “It’s mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures.<\/em>” That almost sounds sweet and not at all weird, right?<\/p>\n

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Well, once he borrowed a white Rolls Royce Phantom II from a friend, packed it full of\u00a0 nearly\u00a0500 kgs of cauliflower, and drove it to the Sorbonne to give a lecture. So his life was as unconventional as his artistic output. And in Gala, Salvador found the perfect partner in crime. They once ruffled some feathers when they appeared at a New York costume party dressed as the Lindbergh baby and his kidnapper. Too soon? Yes, in this case that was the consensus.<\/p>\n

Time to shine a light on Gala<\/h2>\n

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But in 2018 it is about time (and not too soon at all) to explore the role Gala Dal\u00ed played in the artistic process and outsized reputation of Salvador Dal\u00ed. This exhibition, A Room of One’s Own in P\u00fabol<\/em>‘<\/a> from 6 July to 14 October at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona,\u00a0dives into the world of this fascinating luminary of the art world. Known as co-collaborator with her husband, and the subject of a number of Salvador’s finest works – including ‘Galatea of the Spheres<\/em>‘ and ‘Leda Atomica<\/em>‘ – there’s so much to get to know about the woman known as Gala.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer: All images were provided by Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya on behalf of Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed<\/em><\/p>\n

Want to learn more about Gala Dal\u00ed? Get tickets<\/a> to the exhibition at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya!<\/h2>\n

Check out more artistic destinations on Tiqets<\/a>, or read the blog<\/a> for more travel inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Explore the role Gala Dal\u00ed played in the artistic process of Salvador Dal\u00ed at the ‘A Room of One’s Own in P\u00fabol’ exhibition from 6 July to 14 October at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) in Barcelona.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":87,"featured_media":6447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"0","fullscreen":"0","layout":"no-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[5],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-barcelona"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}