Salvador Dali Influences

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”(Salvador Dalí). Dalí is considered one of the most prestigious artists of all time. He has created some of the best works of art, such as, The Persistence of Memory, and, Swans Reflecting Elephants. He is one of the founders of the surrealist movement, taking real life objects and placing them into a dreamlike setting. Even after his death, he still influences several different artists today. Dalí was born in Figueres, Spain, on May 11th 1904. He was brought into drawing school in 1916. He was considered a strange child in class. He often daydreamed and wore unusual clothing. His father made a presentation of Dalí’s work in 1919, which was his first display of his art. 2 years later, his mother died of breast cancer. Which lead his father into marrying his dead wife’s sibling. In 1922 he went to college in Madrid. Again he also looked a bit more eccentric than the other students but that gained him a smidge of popularity along with his fascination of cubism and other types of art. There he got into …show more content…
Which was art in a dreamlike landscape, kind of mix between Impressionism and Cubism. By the 1930’s, he was the most notorious surrealist artist that everyone knew about. He created one of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory, which gained him a ton of popularity. In the late 1930’s he got even weirder. He used very explosive colors and wore a cape, walking stick, and an unusually long mustache. But all of that changed when he was kicked out of the Surrealist group. Due to not standing against the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, he was expelled from the Surrealist group and his rivalry against the leader of the Surrealists, André Breton. During the second World War. He and his wife went to the United States and opened an art museum in New York and stopped his Surrealist style and wrote