Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali (Figueres 1904 - Figueres 1989) Spanish Surrealist Painter.
In Paris in 1929, Dali met Joan Miro, Andre Breton and his Surrealist group, the Romanian Dadaist Tristan Tzara and Paul Eluard. It was here that Dali first met Gala, his former wife.
His early works are experiments with contemporary techniques: Impressionist works like Self-Portrait (1921), Pointillist like Nude in a Landscape (1922-1923); Portrait of the Cellist Ricardo Pichot (1920) and Portrait of Luis Buñuel (1924) lean closer towards Post-Impressionism, and Venus and Amorini (1925), is executed in the Cubist style.
In 1938, Dali traveled to London, meeting with Sigmund Freud and painting a number of portraits of the famous psychologist. In 1946, Dali drew cartoons for Walt Disney, and did work for the Alfred Hitchcock film "Spellbound." In 1978, Dali became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. [1]
Dali supported the Spanish Francisco Franco (even painted a portrait of Franco's grand-daughter) and declared himself Monarchist in his 1970 book Dali by Dali. He also denounced surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel as an atheist. His political views were more artistic than real.
Dali is considered to had possessed excellent painting skills – his works were technically brilliant – and an extraordinary imagination. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.
Contents
Gallery
"Self-Portrait"
"The First Day of Spring"
"Figure on the Rocks"
"The Persistence of Memory"
"Venus and Sailor"
"The Rotting Donkey"
"The Invisible Man"
"The Virgin of Guadalupe"
The Christ of St. John of the Cross
