Krystyna Laycraft
"Bulletism", 2005, mixed media, 24"x24"
"Salvador Dali - The Illustrator," was a great exhibition at National Museum in Warsaw. I was in Poland this time and able to experience this exhibition. Dali wrote: "Order is born of chaos with unparallel precision. The invesible hand of God set in order the chaos of the Universe. On earth, this was the task of man." Dali was a genuine inventor in the field of printmaking. One of the techniques was bulletism:"I fired, on board a barge in the Seine, the first lead bullet with lithographic ink in the world. The shattered bullet opened the age of "bulletism." On the stone, a divine blotch appeared, a sort of angelic wing..." He wanted to incorporated into his work chance which recreates the movement of life.
In painting "Bulletism" I wanted through repeating transfers of "The Crucifixion" with real nails and transfers of the "The dawn of Cervantesa, Vision of the Fisrt windmill" with red blotch, to show intensity of his techniques.