Who Is Salvador Dali's Art Better Than Claude Monet?

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“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This popular quote means that a picture can tell a story just as well as a large amount of text. Painters try to convey a message through their artwork. Salvador Dali is a better painter than Claude Monet because the style of his art was more relatable to the people, his artwork is more popular and different, and he had more meaning behind his artwork. Salvador Dali tried to connect with the people. He would paint his feelings and many people could connect with him (Salvador). Dali would let his paintings do some of the speaking for him, but he couldn’t let them take all of the attention. Dali traveled to many different countries, attending art exhibits featuring some of his art. The more Dali traveled, the more well-known he was to …show more content…
He was nowhere close to connecting with people as well as Dali. Although Monet had a mentor that he was very close to, he couldn’t make the same connections to other people (Claude). This not only set him apart from Dali, but it also hindered him from becoming more admired. Monet also never traveled a lot like Dali had done. In return, Monet wasn’t as popular as Dali around the world. Some art critics didn’t like the techniques that Monet used, dissimilar from Dali who had other famous artists trying to adopt his concepts. Unlike the paintings made by Salvador Dali, Monet’s paintings were all very similar. Most of his paintings were either of nature or people. Monet’s artwork hardly ever changes until his wife passes. At this point in his life he became depressed and begins to really paint his feelings. Dali had always painted his feelings, not just when it was convenient for him. Monet also never went deeper than a scratch on the surface of what his paintings meant to him (Claude). Dali had meaning behind every single one of his paintings and would sometimes leave it up to the viewer to interpret it as they

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