{"id":3914,"date":"2024-09-20T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2024-09-20T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T15:42:42","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-young-dali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/09\/sketch-of-the-week-young-dali\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: Young Dali (Sept 9, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My best sketch from Week #37-2024 is this one of a young Salvador Dali:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Pencil sketch of a young Salvador Dali with slicked-back hair, a pencil mustache, and patented Dali Crazy-Eyes (tm) \" class=\"wp-image-3915\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2177-50x50.jpeg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My reference for the sketch was this picture of Dali and Man Ray I stumbled across on the Library of Congress website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of Salvador Dali and Man Ray, both giving Crazy Eyes. This picture was probably taken at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Ga\u00eet\u00e9-Montparnasse exhibition in Paris by Carl Van Vechten on June 16, 1934.\" class=\"wp-image-3917\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u-1200x795.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Dali-and-ManRay-3a42853u.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Until I saw this photograph, it never dawned on me that Man Ray might be Jewish (which he was), nor that he was American-born (I thought he was French, because he was most famous for the work he did while living in France), nor that he thought of himself as a painter (I knew him for his photography). &#x1f926;&#x200d;&#x2640;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, the Young Dali sketch narrowly beat out this space captain from Friday, September 13. She is taking no shit, folks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2214.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a space captain aiming her blaster off screen to the right. Leave her ship!\" class=\"wp-image-3919\" width=\"416\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2214.jpeg 832w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2214-300x254.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IMG_2214-768x650.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 85vw, 416px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best sketch from Week #37-2024 is this one of a young Salvador Dali: My reference for the sketch was this picture of Dali and Man Ray I stumbled across on the Library of Congress website: Until I saw this photograph, it never dawned on me that Man Ray might be Jewish (which he was), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/09\/sketch-of-the-week-young-dali\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: Young Dali (Sept 9, 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,1029,1026,856,904,572,1030,1028,1025,1024,1031],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113170642506619310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}