Salvador Dali- Essay

Salvador Dali- Surrealist

Salvador Dali

 The Painter Salvador Dali was born on 11th May, 1904. His place of Birth was Figueres in Spain. He started to paint when he was just a toddler and at the age of 10 his skills was already at a high level and his mother decided to send him to art school. He made a lot of visits to Paris Were he met his influential famous painters. Pablo Picasso was one of his influential painters in fact between 1926 and 1929 Dali showed a lot of Picasso's influences in his Paintings. Dali  begun to be involved in the surrealism movement and by time he completed to experiment with Impressionism, Cubism and futurism.

This is Dali`s wife Named Gala from the back. Dali`s loved to draw women from behind in fact there are huge variety of painting with human back scenes. There is a replica form of the women on the front side of her. The Replica is transformed with designs. I can see thin columns with arches just like the columns we see in Greek period. The hair in the transformed woman is with depths just like he draws a piece of stone carved. Her architecture replica left arm looks like a tower because I can see a door and small windows. The carved man on the wall looks influenced from Greek period in fact his style is exactly like the style of that time. The curves of the architecture replica of the women also looks inspired from Greek period because of the Ionic designs they used to carve.  The nude woman is staring at the view of herself in different aspect in front of her. The half naked woman is giving a feeling of modesty and observation. She looks like she observing the picture quietly and reflecting what`s going on.

My Wife, Nude, Three Vertebrae of a column, sky and architecture.
Made in 1945

Dali was clearly influenced from ancient Greece period which goes back about 4,000 years ago. The artist used designs from the Greece architecture like Ionic curves.   The Column arches are mostly seen in Gothic Cathedrals so it can be that he got influenced from that time too. The picture over all is surrealistic. Surrealism period began in 1924 In France and was born from earlier period called Dadaism. Surrealism was a movement which explored the mind imagination. The movement Painting represents dreams and other thoughts that pops in mind randomly.  The movement began by a poet from France named Andre Breton. The Word Surrealism stands for above realism.

Dali paintings interest almost every individual because the unrealistic and abnormal things he created in his own work. In my opinion he was an artist who painted with skills coming both from his hands

Ionic architecture design from Ancient Greece period

and mind. He was also one who began the creative thinking in paintings. The painting here is giving me a feeling of tranquility and dreaming. It reminds me of myself when I sit in a quite area and begin to dream about thinks that cannot happen. 

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