Salvador Dalí
24 May, 1980

The Tate Gallery obviously expects the exhibition of works by Salvador Dalí to be a popular success. Although the selection is severely reduced from the generous Paris show from which it is drawn … visiting hours have been extended until 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

There is reason in this policy, for Dalí is a well-established middlebrow artist. His style, with negligible exceptions, is consistently naturalistic; the means is “traditional”, reassuringly pseudo-photographic, and does not demand an eye educated to the subtle use of a medium; and the symbolic rather than allegorical subject-matter, though it promises to be esoteric, is easily interpreted.