Salvador Dalli And The Persistence Dali

Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century and he was also a well-renowned surrealist. Dali would create crazy things with his imagination; “Dali was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work” (“TheArtStory”). Dali sometimes painted things he saw in his dream, for example, one of his famous masterpieces that were depicted in a dream is The Persistence …show more content…
“Dali joined the Surrealists in 1929, but by 1922, he had already read The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud and had been incorporating material from dreams and the unconscious into his paintings since 1926” (“Dali”). Dali uses many types of techniques and tools when it comes to creating his surreal artwork. Dali mostly used oil paints to create his artwork, he creates the light and dark textures of his paintings giving them more depth and value. An example of this is The Persistence of Memory, the dark areas of the desert come together with the light area of the desert making it look realistic even though it is not realistic. Dali uses a lot of color through his work to make it stand out, the brights colors signify the craziness that goes on in the painting, The Lobster Telephone is a great example of Dali's use bright colors because he blends the colors giving it effect to the viewer who is seeing the …show more content…
“Dali opened a realm of possibilities for artists looking to inject the personal, the mysterious and the emotional into their work. In post-war New York, these concepts were incorporated and transformed by Abstract Expressionists who used Surrealist techniques of automatism to express the subconscious through art, only now through gesture and color. Dalí's use of wildly juxtaposing found objects to create sculpture helped shake the medium from its more traditional bones, opening the door for great assemblage artists such as Joseph Cornell. Today, we can still see Dali's influence on artists painting in Surrealist styles, others in the contemporary visionary arts sphere and all over the digital art and illustration spectrums”