Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.

Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

Dalí employed extensive symbolism in his work. It is given not only by accident (as not a coincidence that all in life, according to the Maestro): interested in the ideas of Sigmund Freud, surrealist invented and used the characters in order to highlight the hidden meaning of his works. Most of all - to designate the conflict between the «hard» body shell of a man and his soft «fluid» emotional-mental content.

For instance, the hallmark "soft watches" that first appear in The Persistence of Memory suggest Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.The idea for clocks functioning symbolically in this way came to Dalí when he was staring at a runny piece of Camembert cheese on a hot August day.

The elephant is also a recurring image in Dalí's works. It first appeared in his 1944 work Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.

"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly." —Salvador Dalí.

Various other animals appear throughout his work as well: ants point to death, decay, and immense sexual desire; the snail is connected to the human head (he saw a snail on a bicycle outside Freud's house when he first met Sigmund Freud); and locusts are a symbol of waste and fear.

Angels The ability of these creatures communicate with God excited Dalí. The angels for him - the symbol of something mystical. Most of the paintings of the master they appear next to the Gala, his wife. That was to Dalí the embodiment of the nobility, purity and communications, by the grant of heaven.

Ants Fear of fragility of life has arisen in Dali still in the childhood, when he with a mixture of horror and revulsion watched ants devour the remains of the deceased small animals. Since then ants became for the artist symbol of decay and rot. Although some researchers have linked the ants in the works of Dali with a strong expression of sexual desire.

Bread Perhaps, the fact that Salvador Dali painted bread on many works and used to create the surreal objects, testified about his fear of poverty and hunger. Dali has always been a «fan» of bread. Not by chance he used rolls to decorate the walls of the theatre-Museum in Figueres. Bread combines several characters. The appearance of bread reminds Salvador Dali hard phallic object, which is opposed to «soft» time and mind.

Drawers The human body in many paintings and objects has opened boxes, symbolizing the memory, as well as thoughts, which often want to hide. «Caches thought» - a concept borrowed from Freud and meaning of the mystery hidden desires.

Architecture Architectural achievements include his Port Lligat house near Cadaqués, as well as his Teatro Museo in Figueres. A major work outside of Spain was the temporary. Dream of Venus was at the New York World's Fair.

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The famous room is an illusion, which Dali made from facial features film star Mae West.

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