Salvador Dali
Contemporary Surrealist
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Surrealism
• 20th Century ArtMovement
•Followed Cubism
• Artwork influenced bythe psychologicaltheories and dreamstudies of SigmundFreud.
Surrealist’s Aesthetic Objective (Artist’s Goal):Portray bizarre dream-like imagery
Alittle AboutDali…
•1904-1989
•Born in Figueres,Spain
•Most famousSurrealist Painter
•Described his workas Hand-paintedDreamPhotographs
Early Work – Formalist in StyleFormalism:
Person at the Window, 1925, Oil on Canvas
An aesthetic and critical theorywhich places emphasis on thestructure of a work of art.
Focus on the effective organizationof the elements of art through theuse of the principles of design.
Basket of Bread, 1926, Oil on Canvas
Still Life by the Light of the Moon,Salvador Dali, 1927, Oil on Canvas
Three Musicians Painting, PabloPicasso, 1921, Oil on Canvas
Influence on Dali:
Cubism
Artistic movement in the early 20thCentury (made famous by Picasso)
characterized by the depiction of naturalforms as geometric structures of planeswith several views visible at once
AnotherInfluenceDadaism: Art basedon Nonsense comprisedof found objects
Wife Naked Watching Her Own Body, 1954, Oil on Canvas
Muchacha, 1925, Oil on Canvas
Interesting Facts
-Dali was intensely afraid of grasshoppers
-He had a brother who died 9 months before his birth named Salvador– Vincent van Gogh had a brother who died prior to his birth and hisname was Vincent
Dali-inspired
Swans Reflecting Elephants
Portrait of a Passionate Woman (The Hands): Salvador Dali, Oilon Canvas, Surrealism
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), Salvador Dali,Oil on Canvas, Surrealism
Burning Giraffe, Salvador Dali, oil on panel, Surrealism
Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, Oil on Canvas, Surrealism