Salvador Dali has got some crazy kick ass paintings going on. what drugs did he use? i think it was definately some acid....a lot of it.
I think he says that just cuz his paintings are far out there. I've heard he painted his dreams. You don't have to do drugs to have an imagination man!
people that think other people can't create such visually stimulating pieces of art without the use of drugs make me sad
dude, salvador dali was a crazy motherfucker. he was painting that far-out shit way before LSD was synthesized. One of his paintings he claims to have received the inspiration for while still in the womb. I read that when he was five he pushed a kid on a tricycle off a bridge and laughed when the kid died. LSD is for normal people to feel what it's like to be a genius/insane.
can't forget this bit of information (from wikipedia of course) "In 1936, Dalí took part in the London International Surrealist Exhibition. His lecture entitled Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques was delivered wearing a deep-sea diving suit."
well i can say it because he was proud of the fact that he didnt and was doing art way before he even had access to any drugs like above poster said, he was known for using other means like dehydrating himslef having alot of sex and The Paranoiac Critical method, most surrealists didnt use drugs actuly the only person known for the drug use i can think of is picabia and he was in dada and not realy in the surealist movment, ever think people just have good ideas?
i can agree with that, but it is so mind-boggling how he thought of all of those crazy images. Those don't happen normally. I think he either used acid or was insane. I couldn;t imagine super super weird stuff like he did until i used acid. Thats just the way it seems.
Salvador Dalì was an amazing surrealist artist. Surrealist being the key word here. I suppose you would have to say the same about other surrealists like Frida Kahlo (not the best example but whatever) and Max Ernst. Art is only limited by the imagination.
I heard from somewhere that he used mescaline, and psilocyben as an inspiration, but i could be wrong. Acid didn't exist back then.
Dali did describe how he worked as paranoiac critical... a method where he put himself into the state of mind where he hallicinated. I don't know if this has ever happened to you, but you know when you stay up for days... you start seeing things? It's basically that. Your mind has to release the images that you would dream sooner or later.... and he used that in his paintings... I believe that is it. No drugs. Here is a great photo
Im a big fan of his art....I was introduced to it as a kid by my father, and find his creativity inspiring. Such strange yet meaningful imagery. I went to his museum in the Montmartre district in Paris when I backpacked Europe. Too bad I didnt make it to his home museum in Spain, but I definitely reccomend the one in Paris. I love the "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening," and "The Temptation of St. Anthony."
I always felt that his paintings were like dreams. When I look at "The Temptation of St. Anthony"( my all time favorite) I really feel I’m viewing someone else’s dream. I think yeah he might of done some drugs but I don’t think that’s where he got his ideas. I feel art as good as that doesn’t come from just doing drugs. many good artists do use drugs but there’s not too many artists works are as good as Dali’s work.
Yip..Dali was great..he has a great museum in Figueras(Spain) it's between French border-Barcelona..I see if I can get a link?? maybe Dali took absinthe?? Van Gogh,Gauguin etc..were addicted http://www.salvador-dali.org/museus/figueres/en_historia.html Tiger
One of Dalis first surreal paintings was made when he was 8 years old - he painted a bowl of cherries in Trompe'loil style (photo realist) onto a board which had been riddled with woodworm and then he got a syringe and plucked the woodworm out of the holes and used them to look as though they were eating the cherries - as though they were maggots eating at the fruit. He didnt need drugs - he thought life was bizzarre enough and used pure imagination, and often was making political, social, and philosophical, statements with his work I have visited that museum 3 times and garauntee you will not be disappointed if you should visit it. Its an immense building and also contains some of the paintings and drawings given to him by Miro and other painters and artists. Also a few miles from Figueras is a small village called Cadaquez where he lived - if you go there you will be able to take a tour round his house and that is also a very brilliant opportunity you should take - I can say that I have seen Dali's bathroom in person and his swimming pool is fantastic - he turned a telephone box into a shower room by the pool and there is a work near his pool by Andy Warhol. In his bedroom - next to his studio are two cages where he kept crickets - he liked to hear them making a noise as he awoke. BTW we found hotel rooms at Cadaquez were very cheap and that was with a sea view - you will recognise a lot of scenery there that he used in his paintings and - you should walk along the cliff road from Cadaquez to his house to see the sights he loved painting
