Salvador Dali
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." This was the attitude that Salvador Dali passed every day with. He was renowned as one of the greatest surrealist painters of his era and years after his death, his prominent reputation is still recognized. When he first began his art, he depicted images that were nothing like anyone had ever seen before. Since Surrealism began as a form of writing, no one had seen it expressed through painting. Dali was the first to do this. Salvador Dali's creations opened up the future of Surrealism in the world of art. Born on a spring day in May of 1904, in Figueres, Spain, Dali entered into the world as the son of Salvador Dali y Cusi and Felipa Domenech. His first introduction to modern painting was in 1916 while on summer vacation. From this moment on, he was hooked. Only one year had passed when he started to study drawing under Professor Juan Nunez at the Municipal School of Drawing in Figueres. In his drawings, he focused most of his energy on experimenting with impressionism and pointillism. By the young age of fourteen, Salvador was already an artistic sensation but he still had the demeanour of a typical teenager.
Surrealism was first introduced by Andre Breton in the form of writing in 1924. Dali observed Breton's concepts and decided to take Surrealism one step further. He derived the thoughts and feelings of these writings and transformed them into drawings and paintings of his own. This had never been done prior to Dali therefore it was a huge step forward for both art and Surrealism. Either people admired what he was doing or they loathed it and criticized him profusely. When asked the question 'what is Surrealism?' by P. Halsman, who was a fellow painter and friend, Dali replied, "Surrealism is myself." This proves how completely absorbed Dali was with his art. Salvador Dali's highest point in his life was from 1929-1939. This is where he created his best works of art. In this time period he also introduced the 'paranoiac-critical method', which was something utterly invented by him. It, "involved various forms of irrational association, notable using images which changed according to the viewer's perception of them, so that a group of fighting soldiers could suddenly be seen as a woman's face" (Harris, 2). Unlike conservative paintings of his time where there was one set image that was being portrayed, an image, which everyone had to observe, Dali was fond of the idea of perception. He wanted people to be able to judge for themselves what they depicted his canvases to represent, he did not want to insist the denotation behind the image. Through his paranoiac-critical method and the focuses in his paintings he taught people that the conservative, 'normal' way wasn't always the best way. He showed them that self-expression was allowed and that it was far from being wron
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