To What Extent Did Dali Make His Own Way Of Thinking Called The Paranoiac Method

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Dali was famous for his outrageous surrealist painting which lead to the surrealist movement beginning in the 1920’s. Dali created his own way of thinking called the “paranoiac method”. The paranoiac method was a way of seeing the world in a new way. Other surrealist painters used this method throughout the surrealist

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