Salvador Dali's The Persistence Of Memory By Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali is a master of the art of surrealism and perhaps the world’s greatest Spanish artist. He is well known for his extraordinary bizarre paintings, where he depicts dream worlds that is illogical and irrational. One of Dali’s famous work is The Persistence of Memory, this painting explored the ideas about dreams, fantasies and fears. Most of the Dali’s painting is about his experience and his interests. Sigmund Freud was a big influence to Dali, He was fascinated about his psychoanalysis theories, it inspired him to develop a technique called paranoiac critical method where creating a work of art, it uses an active process of the mind to visualize images in the work and combine these into the final product (Wikipedia). In the early stages of Dali’s career most of his works are created on his hometown of Figueres, Spain on the rocky coastline of the Cadaques here …show more content…

I cannot separate myself from this sky, this sea, these rocks."(traveller). Later on he was inspired by the nuclear age and created a technique called nuclear mysticism. In this age he was fascinated to circles and cones. He reworked some of his works reflecting how the fabric of life is based of moving atoms. I think it is safe to say that without Dali the world we live in today wouldn’t be the same. His impact to our modern society is being felt everywhere from odd commercials where sometimes it’s illogical. To fashion designs. Dali proved that everything and anything can be out in reality. Dali prescience will never be forgotten. In January 23, 1981 while his favorite record of Tristan and Isolde played, Dalí died of heart failure at the age of 84. He is buried in the crypt below the stage of his Theatre and Museum in Figueres. The location is across the street from the church of Sant Pere, where he had his baptism, first communion, and funeral, and is only three blocks from the house where he was

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