I think perhaps he meant that it helps a lot to know the background of the artist, especially one who is so abstract. I have a book of his paintings and his biography and it really does help me see things a lot better. it's true he was very pompous and a huge 'attention whore'. but on the other hand, the beauty of art like that is you can take your own personal meanings from his paintings.
Hey there Gorgeous Mistress! Dali is definately the greatest painter of the 20th Century. When you see his original canvases you can tell that here was a master that was in love with oils. He certainly influenced my early work! "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" gives insight to the real Dali, the rest was all a fun cover. Few would understand him anyway. Modern critics and some modern have been very negative......jealous of his ability ???? I think so!
quote: Well, monet is actually pretty important in the development of non-objective painting, although it wasnt realised for years. I wouldnt really call him a light-weight. I'm not calling him a lightweight at all, he painted with brilliant technique, and I'm not saying his pictures are not important because they are mainly just pretty to look at, only that in terms of a serious theme I'd say he had much less going on than someone like Dali.
So any salvador dali lovers ready to comme out?? Ya Dali was egoistic but that is also an other reason why I love him. His personality really stands out and I love someone who can take pride in being themselves. Anyone know of Ayn Rand?? Look her up, shes got some good points on why being egoistic is a good way to be.
its totaly true he was insane, but he was half way in charge of his insanity...thats how he made such unusual and amazing art work. he had tons of family and sexual issues, and a borderline paranoiac...crazy cool sick and twisted..sounds like a fun guy to have a conversation with! and yes I LOVE HIS WORK!
Dali was one arrogant bastard, but I must say, he's always been one of my favorite artists. along with M.C.Escher
whenever i go to fredericton ,about 100 miles from here i drop in to the beaverbrook art gallery ..they have salvador dali's santiago el grande there .........awesome is all i can say ..you have to stand in front of it to appreciate it ..you'd swear you can see the blood pumping through the veinshttp://melda.gallery.whitelands.com/photos/paintings/NB/photo8295
whenever i go to fredericton ,about 100 miles from here i drop in to the beaverbrook art gallery ..they have salvador dali's santiago el grande there .........awesome is all i can say ..you have to stand in front of it to appreciate it ..you'd swear you can see the blood pumping through the veins http://melda.gallery.whitelands.com/photos/paintings/NB/photo8295
whenever i go to fredericton ,about 100 miles from here i drop in to the beaverbrook art gallery ..they have salvador dali's santiago el grande there .........awesome is all i can say ..you have to stand in front of it to appreciate it ..you'd swear you can see the blood pumping through the veins http://melda.gallery.whitelands.com/photos/paintings/NB/photo8295
I think dali has done some good things, but the thing I dont like is that he turned from surrealism to a more personal expressionism. He started to repeat himself walking around in circles later on in his life. But the early works and some of those giant works he did during the sixtees where a serious blast to me. I better like the more primitive art of Picasso myself. Im not sure about the LSD part on his work since he always said that Gala was his LSD. The young boy Dali was a hippie for sure.
Actually, Salvador Dali was quoted as claiming to be the FIRST Hippie. Read "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" written before the Hippies arrived and you will see that he may have been right. Dali was super creative, a free thinker, a humanist, and as a a painter was a master of modern art as well as the classical style. He was the best of the Surrealists and was also the first to realize that Surrealism had run its course. This was the result of his contact with Sigmund Freud who told Dali that he looked at Surrealist work and saw the conscious mind, but when he looked at the Renaissance he saw the unconscious. The proof? Everyone knows Dali's work...but does anyone remember Andre Breton ???
Who has the copyright to his work? I was thinking about using his work on some of my pendants I make. I have a framed print of his "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up". The one with the nude women and tigers... Matthew www.createapendant.com
Dali's copyrights must be with his estate or passed on to the Dali Museum in Figueres. There is another one in Florida. Most of the books published on Dali are written by Robert Ducharnes. Credits would be listed for plates found in these books.
