Salvador Dali(May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Salvador Dali painting was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory painting, was completed in 1931. Dali's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Salvador Dali oil paintings attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Salvador Dali was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.
A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes paintings of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory. Salvador Dali was an artist whom everyone became fascinated with for his rebellious and wild imagery. Though he was acclaimed as a great painter he said he could never be a great painter, or even a good painter, because he was to smart. Salvador Dali Oil Painting will forever be an artist everyone has heard of, but will never fully comprehend. |