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Salvador Dali. ... The trompe-l?oeuil photographs, by Salvador Dali, took surrealist
paintings to another level by using techniques never used before. ...
Salvador Dali. ... The trompe-l?oeuil photographs, by Salvador Dali, took surrealist
paintings to another level by using techniques never used before. ...
Salvador Dali. (1904-1989). Salvador Dali was born into a middle-class family
on May 11th, 1904 in Figures Spain. In 1921 he entered ...
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Salvador Dali: Influences. Perhaps one of the world's greatest artists is
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Salvador Dali
precise and detailed painful reality and, placed them inside somber and depressing
landscapes as in ‘The persistence of Memory’ in 1931 (Smith, 2002, 1/1).
His paintings showed a surrealist maturity since he was twenty. From 1926 to 1929,
Dali begun making objects loaded with modern sexual symbols. For example, showing a
dirty figure filled with excrement as in ‘The Lugubrious Game’ done in 1929. At this
period, surrealists were very attracted to Salvador Dali because of his strong personality
and his violent works and paintings full of sexual and excrements allusions (Neret, 2000,
p.21).
The trompe-l’oeuil photographs, by Salvador Dali, took surrealist paintings to another
level by using techniques never used before. These paintings are filled with unusual
shapes, double-sided figures and, anamorphosis, that are distorted images that could be
well understood only if seen from a certain angle. They made him “a quarter century in
advance, the patron saint of American photo-realists” (Néret, 2000, p.27). They were
used to transcribe the image of Dali’s dreams. This was a revelation in his surrealist
paintings mainly caused by a very special person in Dali’s life called Gala.
As a person, Salvador Dali was very special and had a revelation in his life by meeting
Helena Diakonoff or Gala. It all begun by a visit of Andre Breton, Louis Aragon and,
Paul Eluard to Dali. They were three masterminds of the surrealism movement....
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