In his snappy suit of bright green with purple and pink highlights, and his python-skin boots, David Raymond is the most colorful thing in the room. The slate-grey gallery walls are lined with framed black-and-white photographs, many of them a hundred years old. Or more.
But there’s vibrant life in this exhibit, The Subversive Eye, which the Dali Museum will open to the public Saturday. Subtitled Surrealist and Experimental Photography from the David Raymond Collection, the works make a strong argument that Surrealism – that mad, beautiful bending and stretching of reality introduced by Salvador Dali and other early 20th century artists – was not limited to paintings or sculpture. Nor to color.
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