Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali

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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali
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Salvador Dali
(Spanish, 19041989)

• Dali was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic
  artist, and designer
• After passing through phases of cubism, futurism,
  and metaphysical painting. He joined the
  surrealists in 1920. Soon he became the most
  famous surrealist of the time
• He said he believed that his paintings came from
  an unreal dream space, which is understandable
  because of the hallucinatory, or unreal feel to
  his paintings

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Weird family stuff

• Dad was you guessed it a lawyer
• Mother was the artistic influence
• Named for brother who died just prior to his
  birth
• Mother passes away and father marries his sister
  in law

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Early career

• Dalí devoured influences from many styles of art,
  ranging from the most academically classic, to
  the most cutting-edge avant garde
• Made his first visit to Paris, where he met Pablo
  Picasso, whom the young Dalí revered
• Exhibitions of his works in Barcelona attracted
  much attention along with mixtures of praise and
  puzzled debate from critics

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advances

• In 1929, Dalí met his muse, inspiration, and
  future wife Gala
• Dalí describes his method of surrealist painting
  as paranoiac-critical method of accessing the
  subconscious for greater artistic creativity
• Dalí was introduced to America by art dealer
  Julian Levy in 1934. The exhibition in New York
  of Dalí's works, including Persistence of Memory,
  created an immediate sensation

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The Persistence of Memory his most famous
painting. (often referred to as the melting
clocks)Some say the melting clocks represent
that time is not rigid, it is a concept created
by man but does not really exist.
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.Surrealism focuses on the subconsciousthe
unknown. Many of his paintings appear to be
dream like. Most of all they make you want to
look at them and wonder, how did he come up with
that.
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Appropos of nothing
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Dali, The First Days of Spring (1929)
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Portrait of Paul Eluard (1929)
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Meditation on the Harp Dali 1932
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The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used
as a Table Dali (1934)
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1936

• Dalí's main patron in London was the very wealthy
  Edward James. He had helped Dalí emerge into the
  art world by purchasing many works and by
  supporting him financially for two years
• They also collaborated on two of the most
  enduring icons of the Surrealist movement the
  Lobster Telephone and the Mae West Lips Sofa

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sculpture
Lobster Telephone
Mae West Lips Sofa
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Cannibalism in Autumn (1936)
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The Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937, Salvador
Dali
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Influence of Freud

• Dali meets Freud in 1938
• Freud said humans were driven by basic
  animal-like urges beyond our control.
• Freud--and surrealism--questioned the
  Renaissance/Scientific/Enlightenment view of
  humans as totally rational beings.

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Making Money

• In 1939, Leading Surrealist Andre Breton coined
  the derogatory nickname "Avida Dollars", an
  anagram for Salvador Dalí, and a phonetic
  rendering of the French avide à dollars, which
  may be translated as "eager for dollars"

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Daddy Longlegs of the Evening-Hope (1940)
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• He moved to the USA in1940 and stayed there till
  1955. During that time his paintings were often
  on religious themes, for example, the crucifixion
  of saint John of the cross

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Salvador Dali and Man Ray
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Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas 1956