Artist Name: Salvador Dali
Spanish, 1904 – 1989
He could be seen as a front figure for surrealism and he is famous for creating art that represent his version of the ”dreamworld”.
Art styles: Mainly Surrealism but also Impressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Modernism & Cubism
Inspirations: Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Sigmund Freud, etc.
Associated with: 1) man’s world, 2) sexual symbolism and 3) ideographic imagery (Biography, 2019).
Facts: Salvador Dali was born in Spain, 1904. He started painting when he was very young. He had a hard time at school, which made him even expelled. He adopted the recognizable mustache at an early age. Dali had his first Surrealistic period in 1929, where he created oil paintings with small collages of his dream images. Dali was a big fan of Sigmund Freud and his theories, which he included a lot of in his art work. He created art he accessed from his dreams and subconscious. A lot of the details in his art are symbols that represents Freud theory. As the war came, Dali got kicked out of the Surrealistic movement because he refused to take a stance against Spanish militant Francisco Franco. In 1948, after the World War 2 Dali and his wife moved back to his hometown in Spain were his focus moved away from Surrealism and into his classical period. In his final years he had to stop painting because he got a disorder that caused weakness in his hands. During this period, Dali’s wife passed away. These two factors caused him to get into a depression. Dalí passed away due to heart failure when he was 84. (Biography, 2019).
Do I personally like his art? Yes and no. I think they are all very fascinating to look at. It’s perhaps nothing I would have liked to be hanging in my bedroom though because I think some of the pieces are quite scary.
Reference: Biography, (2019), “Salvador Dalí Biography”. Retrived from https://www.biography.com/artist/salvador-dali
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