SALVADOR DALI - BIOGRAPHY BORN: May 11, 1904, Figueras, Spain DIED: Jan. 23, 1989, Figueras Beginnings As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical facility as a painter. In the late 1920s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style: • His discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery; and • His affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish the "greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason. Surrealism To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dalí began to induce hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical.” Once Dalí hit on this method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the paintings that made him the world's best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.
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SALVADOR DALI - BIOGRAPHY
BORN: May 11, 1904, Figueras, SpainDIED: Jan. 23, 1989, Figueras
Beginnings
As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles anddisplayed unusual technical facility as a painter.
In the late 1920s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style:
• His discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significanceof subconscious imagery; and
• His affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought toestablish the "greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason.
Surrealism
To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dalí began to induce hallucinatory states inhimself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical.” Once Dalí hit on this method, hispainting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced thepaintings that made him the world's best-known Surrealist artist.
He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, orotherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.
Dalí portrayed these objects in meticulous, almost painfully realistic detail and usually placedthem within bleak, sunlit landscapes that were reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
Perhaps the most famous of these enigmatic images is "The Persistence of Memory" (1931), inwhich limp, melting watches rest in an eerily calm landscape.
With the Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí also made two Surrealistic films:
• Un Chien andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog); and• L'Âge d'or (1930; The Golden Age).
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Both films are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images.
Renaissance
In the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of theRenaissance painter Raphael, and as a consequence he was expelled from the Surrealistmovement.
Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, interiors of fashionable shops, andjewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the UnitedStates, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.
In the period from 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, though he
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continued to explore erotic subjects, to represent childhood memories, and to use themescentering on his wife, Gala.
Notwithstanding their technical accomplishments, these later paintings are not as highly regardedas the artist's earlier works.
The most interesting and revealing of Dalí's books is The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942-44).
Landscape Near Figueras - 1910
Dutch Interior - 1914
Fiesta in Figueres - 1916
Landscape near Ampurdan - 1914
Crepuscular Old Man - 1918
Duck- 1918
Portrait of Lucia - 1918
Portrait of a Gypsy - 1919
Self Portrait in the Studio - 1919
Saltimbanques - 1921
Self Portrait with the neck of Raphael - 1921
Voyeur - 1921
Bathers of Llaner - 1923
Crystalline – Still Life - 1923
Cubist Self Portrait - 1923
Figure at the Window - 1925
Barcelonese Mannequin - 1927
Inagural Gooseflesh - 1928
Putrefied Donkey - 1928
Vertigo - 1930
The Persistence of Memory - 1931
The Enigma of William Tell - 1933
Cardinal - 1934
Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet’s’ Angelus - 1935
Paranoiac Visage - 1935
The Horseman of Death - 1935
The Dream Places a Hand on Man’s Shoulder - 1936
The Anthropomorphic Cabinet - 1936
Swans Reflecting Elephants - 1937
Sleep - 1937
The Invention of the monsters - 1937
Head of a Woman in the Form of a Battle - 1936
Spain - 1938
The Enigma of Hitler - 1939
The Invisible Bust of Voltaire - 1941
One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by theFlight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, 1944
Resurrection of the Flesh - 1945
The Eye - 1945
Galatea of The Spheres - 1952
Madonna in Particles - 1952
The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory, 1954
Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion, 1954
Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity, 1954
The Last Supper - 1955
Sorcery The Seven Arts - 1957
Dionysus Spitting the Complete Image of Cadaqués on the Tipof the Tongue of a Three-Storied Gaudinian Woman, 1958
Metamorphosis of Hitler's Face into a Moonlit Landscape with Accompaniment, 1958
Birth of A Divinity - 1960
Hyperxiological Sky - 1960
Mohammed’s dream - 1961
The Alchemist - 1962
Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three LeninsMasquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal
Tiger, 1963
Toreo Noir - 1969
Polyhedron. Basketball Players Being Transformedinto Angels (Assembling a Hologram - the Central Element), 1972
Wounded Soft Watch - 1974
Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which atTwenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham
Lincoln - Homage to Rothko, 1976
The Garden of Hours - 1981
The Road of The Enigma - 1981
Atmospherocephalic Figures, 1982
Exploded Head - 1982
Landscape with Hidden Image of Michelangelo's "David", 1982
Three Glorious Enigmas of Gala - 1982
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