Salvador Dali
World of Surrealism
Salvador Dali's paintings were often described as dream painted photographs of his dreams. He used oil paints and was great inspired by renaissance artists. He created srange hallucinatory characters and real dream space.
Surrealists
Salvador dali was part of a group called surrealists. His major contribution to the surrealist was what he called "paranoiac-critical method,” It was a mental exercise where one would try to enter the subconious for creative ideas. He was later expelled from the surrealists.
He had his own retrospective exhibit
in 1941 in the Metropolitan Museum of
Modern Art. This was followed by the
publication of his autobiography, “The Secret Life of Salvador Dali.” He started to move away from surrealism and focused more on classical art. Salvador then expanded into film making, where he collaborated with Luis Buñuel. The two films they made were,
Un Chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) and L'Age d'or (The Golden Age, 1930).
Misc.
The persistence of memory
Marie-Laure de Noailles and Viscount and Viscountess Charles were his first patrons. They were french aristocrats who invested heavily in his art, one of his most famous painting came from this time, (right) The persistence of memory is one of his most famous paintings today. His pictures are often described as hand painted dream photographs. This is based in his home town. The melting clocks are in some of his other paintings. the melting clocks meaning might be that in dreamworlds, time has no grasp. It could mean that time is melting away into nothingness. the ants swarming on the orange clock could mean decay.