Dalí: Coffee with a Curator – so you think you know flowers?

So you think you know flowers? Documentation and artistic license in western flower imagery.

Join us for this installment of our Coffee with a Curator series, where Museum Staff or invited guests speak on a range of Dalí-inspired topics.

In conjunction with our special exhibition, Reimagining Nature: Dalí’s Floral Fantasies, this month’s talk will feature Sarah Cartwright, PhD. Though we may think that botanical illustrations simply “document” the appearance of a flower, the reproduction of nature in visual art is never so straightforward. In this talk, inspired by Dalí’s imaginative reworkings of botanical illustrations, we’ll look at a range of historic flower images from the Western artistic tradition to consider how artists represent nature and how we perceive and characterize their work.

Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater (registration required), with overflow seating available in the Raymond James Community Room or live on YouTube (video link here).