Surrealist painter--Salvador Dali

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí-Domenech, Marquis of Pupol, generally referred to as Salvador Dalí (Salvador Dalí), is a famous Spanish Catalan Asian painter, famous for his surrealist works. Dali was an artist of extraordinary talent and imagination, and his works surprisingly blended grotesque, dreamlike images with superior draftsmanship and painting techniques influenced by Renaissance masters. In 1982, King Juan Carlos I of Spain named him Marquis of Pubol. Together with Picasso and Matisse, he is considered to be the three most representative painters of the 20th century. Dali is famous for his surrealist works, which present strange dream-like images and excellent drawing techniques. "The Persistence of Memory", "An Andalou Dog" and "Omen of the Civil War" are his most famous works.

Dalí was born into a wealthy middle-class family near Barcelona: one of his brothers had died before he was born, and Dalí was often told that he was the reincarnation of the first Salvador. Images of the late brother and the Catalan landscape recur throughout his artwork. In 1922, Dali entered the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where he experimented with the Impressionist and Pointillist styles and was influenced by Raphael (1483-1520), Agnolo Bronzino (1503-72), Influenced by the works of Velazquez and Johannes Vermeer (1632-75). Dali carefully studied the works of Italian Renaissance painters and attempted to imitate them. Although Vermeer was his favorite painter and his beard was an imitation of Velázquez, Dali particularly admired the art of Raphael. Between 1926 and 1929 he visited Paris several times, where he met Picasso, Miró and René Magritte (1898-1967), who introduced him to Surrealism. After moving to Paris, Andrè Breton invited Dali to join Surrealism. He was also married to Gala. Gala was a Russian immigrant who left her husband for Dalí and became his muse and inspiration. Dali followed the theory of the unconscious and, guided by the unconscious, created what he called the "Paranoia-Critical" method, painting in a state of self-induced paranoia and creating what he called "hand-painted dream photographs" in a meticulous classical style.

"The Persistence of Memory" is an oil painting on canvas created by Dali in 1931 and is now collected at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The work typically embodies Dali's early surrealist painting style. The picture shows an empty beach. Lying on the beach is a monster that looks like a horse but not a horse. Its front part looks like a human head fragment with only eyelashes, nose and tongue assembled absurdly; there is a platform on the side of the monster. , there is a dead tree growing on the platform; and the most surprising thing is that several clocks that appear in this painting have become soft and malleable things. They appear soft or hanging on On branches, on platforms, or on monsters' backs, it seems that these clocks made of metal, glass and other hard materials have been exhausted for too long, so they have become loose. Dali admitted that in the painting "The Persistence of Memory", he represented a kind of personal dream and hallucination revealed by Freud. He did not choose and recorded his subconscious and his own thoughts as accurately as possible. The result of every thought in a dream.

Dali is undoubtedly one of the most interesting figures in the history of art. His provocations shocked the art world and his vision inspired the masses. Whether as a painter, graphic designer, illustrator, sculptor, stage playwright or writer, Dali was always able to create a new artistic path and was a benchmark figure in the modern and future art world. He is a painter with outstanding talent and imagination. In transforming the subjective world of dreams into objective and exciting images, he made a serious contribution to Surrealism and to 20th-century art.