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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali. May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920’s.

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Salvador Dali

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  1. Salvador Dali May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989

  2. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920’s. • Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with phtotographic precision, created strange creaturs from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself. • Features the element of surprise! Father of Surrealism

  3. SURPRISE!

  4. Figueres, Spain

  5. Most famous painting. The Persistence of Memory 1931

  6. “love of everthing that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes”

  7. "...[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections."[11] He "was probably a first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute."[ "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul."

  8. The Basket of Bread 1926

  9. The Mustache!

  10. Gala (Elena Diakonava)

  11. Dali’s father

  12. "I myself am surrealism"

  13. Rainy Taxi (1938)

  14. World War II1940

  15. "Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a totalitarian system. ... Today's laziness and the total lack of technique have reached their paroxysm in the psychological signification of the current use of the college"

  16. 1949 -

  17. The Modonna of Port Lligat1949

  18. La Gare de Perpignan1965 (Perpignan Train Station)

  19. The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968)

  20. Dali Theatre and MuseumSpain

  21. 1972

  22. The Elephant in his works:

  23. Dream caused by the Flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before awakening1944

  24. "I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly." —Salvador Dalí, in Dawn Ades, Dalí and Surrealism

  25. The egg in his paintings: Hope and Love

  26. Sculptures

  27. His meuseums

  28. More examples of Surrealsim

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