Salvador Dalí (Spain 1904 - Spain 1989)
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí was an important Catalan painter, known for his work surrealist. His pictorial work draws attention for the unique combination of bizarre images, as in dreams, with an academic, traditional technique, similar to that of Renaissance artists. In addition to his work in painting, few know its enormous versatility, as some of his most popular works are sculptures and other objects. Dalí also made interesting contributions to theater, fashion, photography, cinema (having worked with the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock), television commercials and even in the field of design, creating logos for products.
Since childhood, Dalí showed an interest in the visual arts. He began his artistic education at the Municipal Design School. In 1916, during a summer vacation in Cadaquès, he discovered Impressionist painting. His first works, such as "Moça à Janela", framed in a naturalistic and detailed line, already produced an ambiguous feeling of unreality, which would later be accentuated. In 1921, he entered the School of Fine Arts of São Fernando, Madrid, but ended up being expelled from the institution in 1926, as he stated that no one there was competent enough to evaluate him. Dadaism. He became friends with the poet Federico García Lorca and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Salvador Dalí
In 1928, persuaded by Catalan painter Joan Miró, He moved to Paris and joined the surrealist movement. It was at this time that he met the wife of the poet Paul Éluard, Gala, (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, a Russian immigrant) who would become his companion and model for the rest of his life. He then collaborated with Luis Buñuel, in two famous films, Un Chien Andalou (an Andalusian dog, 1929) and L'âge d'or (The Golden Age, 1930).
It is from there That the best works of the Catalan master will emerge, who, with some experience, and wishing for recognition, will paint his best works, especially "persistence of memory", with the iconic image of the molten clocks. In 1939 he was expelled from the surrealist artistic group, as they adopted the Marxist political orientation in almost their entirety, and Dalí, in turn, declared himself anarcho-monarchic. In fact, while several artists were "forgotten" in the midst of the Francoist regime, Dalí was honored by his admiration for the monarchy and for Franco. indefinitely in their work. Among these paintings are "The Last Supper", by Leonardo da Vinci, "The Girls", by Velázquez, "Angelus" by Millet, "The Battle of Tetuan", by Meissonier, and "The Renderer", by Vermeer by Delft. (your favorite painter). They appear painted in Dali's paintings in different forms, under different conditions, such as shadows, dismembered, analyzed in different dimensions, in shadows, reliefs, etc.
Dalí died of pneumonia and heart failure in the city where he was born and was buried in the main atrium of its theater-museum. His last works date back to 1983.
Phastions by Salvador Dali
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of deceiving. Either it is good or is bad.”
“God invented men, and men invented the metric system.”
“I am not afraid of perfection – I will never achieve it.”
“I do not use drugs: I am the drug.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not crazy!”
“The only thing that the world will not have enough is the exaggeration.”
“I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”
“Those who don't want to imitate something don't produce something. nothing.”
“Modern art is when you decide to buy a painting to hide a part of the wall whose painting is peeling off and, after examining some 50 works, you come to the conclusion that it is best to leave it as it is.”
“I live in a permanent state of intellectual erection.”
“Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never reach it.”
“The difference between false and true memories is the same as jewels: false ones always appear to be the most real, the most brilliant.”
“How can I Wanting my friends to understand the crazy things that go through my head, if I don't understand it myself?”
“Surrealism will, at least, have served to prove that the total experimentation of sterility and the attempts at automations have gone too far and having led to a totalitarian system… Today, laziness and total lack of technique have come to their paroxysm in the psychological meaning of the current use of college.”
Major works by Salvador Dalí
1922 - Cabaret Scene and Night Walking Dreams
1925 - Large Harlequin and Small Bottle of Rum
1926 - Basket of Bread and Girl From Figueres
1927 - Composition with Three Figures and Than Blood
1929 - The Great Masturbator
1929 - The first days of spring
1931 - A Memory Persistence
1931 - The Old Age of Guilherme Tell
1932 - The Spectrum of Sex Appeal,
1932 - The Birth of Liquid Desires
1932 - Catalan anthropomorphic bread
1933 - Gala with two mutton chops in balance over your shoulder
1936 - Autumn Cannibalism
1936 - Soft construction with baked beans
1938 - España 1938
1937 - Metamorphosis of Narcissus
1937 - Giraffe in flames
1940 - The face of war
1943 - Poetry of Americas
1944 - Galarina and dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate a second before waking
1945 - The basket of bread
1946 - The temptation of Saint Anthony
1949 - Atomic Leda
1949 - Madonna of Portlligat.
1951 - Christ of São João da Cruz
1954 - Crucifixion ("Corpus Hypercubus")
1956 - living still life
1958 - meditative rose
1959 - The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus
1970 - Bullfighter hallucinogen
1972 - La Toile Daligram
1976 - Gala contemplating the sea
1983 - The Swallow's Tail
Source: Pensador Uol, SuaPesquisa
