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Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali, the most famous of surrealist artists, was a highly imaginative artist who was best known for his striking and bizarre images. His most well-known work is "The Persistence of Memory." Asking and answering questions about his life and his work is the purpose of this category.
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Where did Salvador Dali get his inspiration?
By going to art school in Figueres and Art Academy in Madrid.
What did the art mean to Salvador Dali?
Dali used events in his childhood and throughout his young life in his symbolism. The Majority of his symbolism is based on his fears and phobias, for example the aggressive and dominating figure of his father is often painted by Dali in the form of a Lion, and a chest of drawers slightly open suggests the supressed sexuality of females and sexual discovery.
Each symbol has its own meaning, but most of them depict a certain fear of his using an image related to his fear extracted from an event in his life.
What was the subject of salvador Dalis paintings?
The subject matter of Salvador Dali's work varied among his different art periods. He started with simple landscapes of his home and then started focusing on "erotic desires" concerning grotesque dreams and sights.
What is the difference between Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali?
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Pablo Picasso, on the other hand, was a famous painter who was born in Spain, and lived mostly during the twentieth century. He is known mostly for his unrealistic, cubist paintings of people.
In short--two very, very different men. As a small matter of curiosity, where on earth did you get such a question?
What is Salvador Dali's 'Mae West' painting worth?
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Did Salvador Dali have any brothers and sisters?
Yes, Francisco Goya did have four siblings. Goya was a Spanish painter and considered to be the last of the Old Master painters.
What kind of impact do Salvador Dali have?
He himself claimed his own contribution to art was: 'nothing, absolutely nothing' in a 1970's interview.
He then said he was a bad painter and if he ever painted anything good, he would die the next week.
What were major events during Salvador Dali's life?
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech, known as Salvador Dali, was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter. Dali never won any big time awards for his artistic works.
What was the nationality of Salvador Dali?
Salvador Dali was born in Figueres in Spain on May 11, 1904. So he was Spanish.
What is the name of the film Salvador Dali made?
Salvador Dali has been working on more than one movie in one way or another. The most famous one, and the one you are probably referring to is Un Chien Andalou (the Andalusian Dog) in which he starred and that he co-wrote with Luis Buñuel. He also worked on a second movie with Buñuel called L'age D'or.
Other movies he's been part of are Destino, in which he worked with Walt Disney, Spellbound in which he co-operated with Alfred Hitchcock. The last
movie he directed is called Impressions de la haute Mongolie (Impressions of Upper Mongolia), which he made in 1975.
In 1909, he said, being 5.
Actually, Dali was 10 years old, and the first painting he ever created was a little impressionistic landscape of Figueras, where he grew up. Even at his young age, his painting showed great sense of depth and perspective, which was astonishing considering the fact he had been untutored. Making him a child prodigy.
Salvador Dali was 10 years old when he made his first painting
Nope, Salvador Dali didn't have any mini-mes running around. He was too busy rocking that mustache and creating mind-bending art to worry about changing diapers. So, in short, nope, no kiddos for the eccentric artist.
When did Salvador Dali go to Bolivia?
I can find no info on Salvador Dali going to Bolivia. There are Bolivian people named Dali, though. (Not Salvador).
What was salvador Dalis dream like pictures called?
Most of his paintings were what is called surrealism. A surrealistic painting portrays something that often is unexpected in some way, in that it defies laws, sense and logic.
An example would be the painting "the persistence of memory" that portrays a set of melting pocket watches.
What was Salvador Dali's impact on society?
The obvious answer is that he lived within some people's living memory, but also he had an original way of looking at the world, which in some ways was copied by Andy Warhol.
