Salvador Dali was an artist born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali after his father and brother, who died 9 months before Dali's own birth due to meningitis. Dali lived in the shadow of his brother all of his life. This had a great impact on his artwork. A lot of his works were an expression of how he felt towards his brother. These works included deterioration, degeneration, and other disturbing images. Dali began painting at the age of 10 and some of his more prominent works were created between the ages of 13 and18. In 1922, he studied at the San Fernando Academy School of Fine Arts in Madrid. Although he was expelled in 1926, due to the fact he believed he was smarter than his teachers. Dali’s painting skills
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But this would lead me off to far now, and anyway these are considerations that its up to the critics to analyze and clarify.”(The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, pg. 221)
Despite his early efforts to separate himself from Surrealism, Salvador Dali ended up being one of the top surrealists of this time. Surrealism which explored the subconscious dream world as well as illogical origins of the mind in the belief that the discoveries to be made from such exploration would be of more fundamental importance to the human condition than any other form of social inquiry, was not widely accepted Rafael Benet who was one of Dali’s good friends termed Surrealists ‘a miniscule, sterile group of sinister lovers of scandal for the sake of scandal’ (The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, pg. …show more content…
Spain on fire would light up this drama of the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a holocaust to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by moral and artistic anxieties - at one fell swoop, from the middle of the Spanish cadaver springs up. Half devoured by vermin and ideological worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a cathedral filled with the white dynamite of hatred. Bury and unbury! Disinter and inter in order to unbury again! Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that impatient Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering, of making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and resurrecting. It was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume tradition and to profane everything in order to be dazzled anew by all the treasures that the land was hiding in its entrails." (The Secret Life of Dali, pg. 358,
But this would lead me off to far now, and anyway these are considerations that its up to the critics to analyze and clarify.”(The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, pg. 221)
Despite his early efforts to separate himself from Surrealism, Salvador Dali ended up being one of the top surrealists of this time. Surrealism which explored the subconscious dream world as well as illogical origins of the mind in the belief that the discoveries to be made from such exploration would be of more fundamental importance to the human condition than any other form of social inquiry, was not widely accepted Rafael Benet who was one of Dali’s good friends termed Surrealists ‘a miniscule, sterile group of sinister lovers of scandal for the sake of scandal’ (The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali, pg. …show more content…
Spain on fire would light up this drama of the renaissance of aesthetics. Spain would serve as a holocaust to that post-war Europe tortured by ideological dramas, by moral and artistic anxieties - at one fell swoop, from the middle of the Spanish cadaver springs up. Half devoured by vermin and ideological worms, the Iberian penis in erection, huge like a cathedral filled with the white dynamite of hatred. Bury and unbury! Disinter and inter in order to unbury again! Such was the charnel desire of the Civil War in that impatient Spain. One would see how she was capable of suffering, of making others suffer, of burying and unburying, of killing and resurrecting. It was necessary to scratch the earth to exhume tradition and to profane everything in order to be dazzled anew by all the treasures that the land was hiding in its entrails." (The Secret Life of Dali, pg. 358,