Frente a la opinión más extendida que considera a Salvador Dalí únicamente como un destacado artista plástico, existe otro Dalí menos conocido, pero volcado con el mismo tesón desde la adolescencia en los entresijos de la escritura, actividad que lo acompañará el resto de su vida y en la que llegará a abarcar casi la totalidad de géneros: poesía, diario, ensayo, artículo, novela, libreto y guion cinematográfico. De hecho, son numerosas las ocasiones en que Dalí se sirve de la literatura para dar cumplido cerramiento a sus obras pictóricas, en tanto que otras nace de sus textos el germen creador que posteriormente es trasladado al lienzo.
El presente trabajo recorre las diferentes etapas de este genio del siglo XX, arquetipo excepcional de talento múltiple, llevando a cabo un estudio comparado de aquellos casos, un total de siete, donde obra pictórica y obra poética se interpretan de tal forma que llegan a constituir un ejemplo paradigmático de aquel sentido de la interdisciplinariedad que desde Horacio ha dado en denominarse ut pictura poesis.
Together with the more widespread view that only considers Salvador Dalí as a prominent visual artist, there is another, less known, approach to Dalí which addresses his activity as a writer since his adolescence. Indeed, he did engage in this practice for the rest of his life, covering almost every genre: poetry, journal, essay, article, novel, script and screenplay. In fact, Dalí has, on many occasions, used literature as a means to conclude his paintings, and, at other times, the creative spark that is later seen in his canvas stemmed from his writings.
This work aims to go through the different stages in the life of this 20th century genius and multi-talented artist. In order to do this, a comparative study will be carried out on the seven instances in which painting and poetry are interpreted so that they become a paradigm of the interdisciplinary nature that, ever since Horace, has eventually been known as ut pictura poesis.
