From a very young age, Salvador Dali understood that he was different from other people. An extremely shy young boy – insecure to a point – he went out of his way to draw attention to himself, and when the attention arose, he reveled in it. From his early years until his death, Dali at home when he pushed a friend off of a cliff, to his years in art school when he flung himself down a flight of stairs, to his obsession with thinking he remembered being in the womb and being birthed, to his determination in perfecting his own hallucinatory images and fabricating memories that would later serve as inspiration for many of his drawings, Salvador Dali remains an artist that will always be the focus of conversation and intrigue. Born in 1904, in
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He believed many things that you or I would have to question the sanity of. For instance, he remembered being in his mother’s womb and being born, which led him to believe that this affected visions and his hyper-visualism that followed him for the rest of his life. From the time he was young child, Dali admits to fabricating false memories, that he says, “. . . later it has often become impossible for me to know where reality begins and the imaginary ends” (Dali 38). These false memories contributed to many of his drawings during his lifetime. Additionally, Dali worked on perfecting his hallucinatory mind until images that he had previously seen would metamorphosize into something else. Once he would see this metamorphosized images, he could then later recall it perfectly, but at almost an instant, that same image would further augment into something even more important in his mind. For example, Dali desperately wanted to meet Freud and attempted to on numerous occasions. Several years later, while in France and eating snails, Dali saw a picture of Professor Freud in a newspaper. He had a vision that Freud’s skull resembled that of a snail! He saw his brain as a spiral shape. This vision of his strongly influenced the portrait drawing that Dali made of Freud just a year before Freud’s
He believed many things that you or I would have to question the sanity of. For instance, he remembered being in his mother’s womb and being born, which led him to believe that this affected visions and his hyper-visualism that followed him for the rest of his life. From the time he was young child, Dali admits to fabricating false memories, that he says, “. . . later it has often become impossible for me to know where reality begins and the imaginary ends” (Dali 38). These false memories contributed to many of his drawings during his lifetime. Additionally, Dali worked on perfecting his hallucinatory mind until images that he had previously seen would metamorphosize into something else. Once he would see this metamorphosized images, he could then later recall it perfectly, but at almost an instant, that same image would further augment into something even more important in his mind. For example, Dali desperately wanted to meet Freud and attempted to on numerous occasions. Several years later, while in France and eating snails, Dali saw a picture of Professor Freud in a newspaper. He had a vision that Freud’s skull resembled that of a snail! He saw his brain as a spiral shape. This vision of his strongly influenced the portrait drawing that Dali made of Freud just a year before Freud’s