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 AlokeKumar rated 25 months ago - SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)
A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Pers... more
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- AlokeKumar rated 25 months agoart-history
- SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989)
A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.(Picture below). The painting on the right is named Saint George and the dragon, a favorite of mine.
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domčnech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.
Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003.Born in Catalonia, Spain, Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors who invaded Spain in the year 711, and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes."Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. The purposefully sought notoriety led to broad public recognition and many purchases of his works by people from all walks of life.
Dali often clashed with André Breton and other members of the "official" Surrealist circle over the content of his paintings and the right-wing views he sometimes espoused, and was kicked out of the group in 1934. Breton coined a brilliant anagram for Dali's name: Avida Dollars (which more or less translates to "Eager for Dollars"); Dali shot back, The only difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dali
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"Dear Aloke thank you for your kind words. I am fascinated by your review of this site which includes many details about Salvador Dali such as his claim to Arab heritage. This makes a lot of sense as that heritage is apparent everywhere here in Spain. It is in the language, the architecture, and in the faces of many people. Many thanks for this. Yafiah Katherin
- Yafi07 rated 25 months agoart-history, surrealist, salvador-dali, arab-heritage
- Dear Aloke thank you for your kind words. I am fascinated by your review of this site which includes many details about Salvador Dali such as his claim to Arab heritage. This makes a lot of sense as that heritage is apparent everywhere here in Spain. It is in the language, the architecture, and in the faces of many people. Many thanks for this.
- alita rated 54 months agoart-history
- art rules!
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