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Salvador Dali

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali’ Y Domenech

Salvador Dali is a world-renown surrealist painter and dabbled in many aspects of artmaking. Dali was born to Salvador Dali I Cusi a notary, and Felipa Domenech Ferres on May 11th, 1904. Dali was born in Figueres, Spain where he also grew up. Having a rough time as a child, he would often erupt in the fits of anger towards his friends and parents. Soon, he began to mature and convinced his father that he was a working artist, that he could make money. In 1921, Dali had moved to Madrid, Spain to learn painting. A lot of his artworks were influenced by his all-time favorite artist Giorgio de Chirico. Most of the time Dali would enjoy surrealism works though he did do a bit of cubism. Though for a time Dali was arrested for political views and activities with the government which lead to him being thrown out of art school in 1925.

One of Salvador’s most known and accomplished piece would be a surrealist painting by the name of “The Persistence of Memory”. Dali was twenty-seven when he created this magnificent piece of art. “I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images I see appear upon my canvas” Salvador Dali once said as he created The Persistence of Memory while hallucinating. Dali had well rounded out his “paranoiac-critical method. A method whereas they call it a hand-painted dream picture. The creation itself isn’t as big as one might think. Scaling at 9,5 inches by 13 inches most think this painting is humongous only to be humored at its small size. The first place this work was shown, was at the Julien Levy Gallery, in New York City during 1932. The artwork stayed in New York, A random person purchased the piece and offered it to the Museum of Modern Art as a donation. It has been the center of attention in the MoMA’s collection for 80 or more years. This piece is a painting, oil to be exact. Clocks melting in the setting of a desert. Some people think this piece could be a self-portrait. A self-depicted representation of himself. Though the explanation he had given for this piece of work, could be skeptically taken for sarcasm as Dali said he had used cheese that had melted under the heat of the sun. A few other surrealist artists called Dali out, saying that he didn’t create surrealistic artwork as he then responded curtly with, he is surrealism.

Another piece that was suggested to be a sequel to “The Persistence of Memory”, called “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”. As one of the major similarities would be the melting clocks. This piece came about Dali’s interest in Nuclear Physics.

Salvador Dali really shaped the artistic work with surrealism. Dali’s indescribably unique style and personality really pushed him to the center of attention. With that light shining on him, he took it and ran. Having many artistic talents Dali would interpret surrealism in every one of them. One of his quotes was “the difference between me and the surrealists, is that I am a surrealist. “really putting himself in the position to own what it is that he does.
Now making influences on the current daily lives of humans, Dali helped shape the world as it is today. Famous signer Lady Gaga uses fashion as a way of creating artwork, using Dali and Gala his wife as influences for her choice of fashion. Along with wearing a mustache that is a copy to that of Salvador Dali’s.

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