Miles to Write Before I Sleep: My Man Dali!!

My last post was about surrealism, and i only saw fit to dedicate this post to the greatest surrealist ever, and my favorite artist personally, SALVADOR DALI!!!

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol
(May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí

(was a prominent spanish catalan surrealist painter born in figueres.)

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, (to some its known as the melting clocks) was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking 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.

heres Dali in 1939

and in 1972

Dali sought a change in his life after the meeting with the Surrealists in 1928 in Paris and he knew that this change was not going to occur in Catalonia. However, the Surrealists saw in Dali the future of the movement, because he was armed with an exceptionally rich imaginary baggage. This baggage was a result of his erotic desires for women and his undying interest in the concept of the unconsciousness devised by Sigmund Freud. His precise style enhanced the nightmare effect of his paintings. By 1929 he had become a leader of surrealism.

SOME OF HIS WORKS