Artist Influence – Salvador Dali

Posted on 14/01/2015 Updated on 13/01/2015

`The specialised sciences of our times are concentrating on study of the three constants of life: the sexual instinct, the sentiment of death, and anguish of space-time.’ Salvador Dali, In `Dali,’ Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1968. This is a quote from the famous Salvador Dali, an artist who specialised in the style of surrealist painting.

I’m not completely familiar with Dali’s work, but from the brief amount of research which I have done, I can see that most of his work is being painted through surrealism. Dali created many surrealist paintings, most of which are illusions depicting world’s which he has created through paint. What I think when I look at Dali’s paintings, he wanted the viewer to question reality of his paintings, and maybe wanted to question where the idea for these came from.

My work that I’m currently working on, has a similar concept in the way of creating a surrealist world; Dali’s work is more extreme in the surrealism than mine is, but the idea of creating my own reality is similar to what Dali’s work depicts (that’s why gather anyway).

The text above is a mix of my own opinion and research of Salvador Dali.

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In-text: (Dalí and Larkin, 1974)

Bibliography: Dalí, S. and Larkin, D. (1974). Dali. New York: Ballantine Books.