Salvador Dali Biography
b. May 11, 1904, Figueras, Spain
d. 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. Dalí portrayed these objects in meticulous, almost painfully realistic detail and usually placed them within bleak, sunlit landscapes that were reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
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d. 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. Dalí portrayed these objects in meticulous, almost painfully realistic detail and usually placed them within bleak, sunlit landscapes that were reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
Click for more information
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