Salvador Dali

In my opinion,Salvador Dali was and still is one of the most influential, daring and modern artist for his time. Dali was born in 1904 in a town between the French border and Catalonia, Spain. Dali's talent was discovered at an early on, his first landscape painting was at the age of 6. At an early age he dedicated his life to the world of arts by attending the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando where he was expelled from the Academia in 1926, shortly before his final exams when he was accused of starting an unrest. So what makes Salvador Dali one of the most celebrated artists of all time?  I find that there aren't many paintings out there that you take a glimpse and straight away you know its genius. Usually it will take a good 5 minutes to figure out what the artist is trying to "say". Dali has this uniqueness to his work that has never been created before. He takes objects that as a normal viewer would not relate to the scenery he paints.Dali once said " Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure- that of being Salvador Dali." His drive passion towards life definitely comes through in his art.

                                                                                                                                            

First painting by 6 year old Dali

Edited by Jessica Yenilmez

I edited this photo using Picmonkey by setting it on the colour tool on the lowest most fade setting there was just to add a little surrealism to each of the artist's Ive chose. In my spare time I generally enjoy editing photos and would one day love to tackle Photo shop. 

Dream Caused by the Fight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening 

When I see the 'Dream Caused by the Fight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening', it gives me pure satisfaction due to its depth of thought process that must have gone behind it. The golden line for me in this piece is definitely the tiger coming out of the fish's mouth. Even though usually people are the centre of attention, especially when it comes to nudity, but somehow Dali made this figure of the less importance. Is he trying to make us think about how our body is perceived in the larger prospect and the less importance we human beings are on this earth because animals came way before us yet we look down on them. 

In this piece I really admire how he has stuck to subtle blue tones to make it easy on the eyes and not to focus so much on the colour composition but yet on the actual meaning and story behind it.   

Dali's most famous work of art is most likely The Persistence of Memory (1931), often called just "Clocks" and widely regarded as a Surrealist masterpiece. But what is the meaning behind Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory? What do all of those melted clocks mean? The clocks symbolise the erratic pace of time in a dream. When you're dreaming, it feels like the dream lasts the whole night, however it is proven that the dream may only be a few minutes long. In my opinion, the clocks are 'melting' because on a day to day basis, we are so consumed by time and even in our subconscious mind we are constantly aware of time. While you're dreaming it's not up to you to decide how long you dream for, it's almost as if the clocks are melting because the power of time is not in your hands. Some art scholars believe that Dali's melting clocks may symbolise Albert Einstein's groundbreaking Theory of Relativity, a new and revolutionary idea back in the culture of 1930's. Through the theory of relativity, Einstein proposed a new concept of time as being relative and complex not something fixed and easily tracked with as crude a gadget as a pocket watch. Why the remote desert setting?  The craggy rocks to the right represent a tip of Cap de Creus peninsula in north-eastern Catalonia.Many of Dali's paintings were inspired by the landscapes of his life in Catalonia.The strange and foreboding shadow in the foreground of this painting is a reference to Mount Pani.