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Salvador Dalí



With an hiperrealistic style, Dalí shows us fantastic and unreal scenes. He invents characters, mixes objects or deforms them, paints on the same pictures differents scenes, keeps awake tabus. He is interested in the fantastic relationships produced by the unconscious.

Dalí manipulates the objects and uses them as symbolic elements:

 

                                                DRAWERS

Symbolize the secrets corner. They are the door of our inconscious. These drawers can only be opened with the psychoanalysis.

 
 
CIUTAT DE CALAIXOS (1936)
Drawers' city.

 

                                                 ANTS

These insects are unpleasant record of his childhood. They remimd you of the rotten. In his paintings ants symbolize the dead.
 
 
BUST DE DONA RETROSPECTIU (1933)
Retrospective woman's bust.

 

                                                EGGS

The eggs symbolize the birth and the origin of life.

 
 
METAMORFOSI DE NARCÍS (1936-37)
Saint Narcis metamorphosis

 

                                                CRUTCHES

The crutches and long things which symbolize the sexual organ. They also symbolize the impotence.

 
 
L'ESPECTRE DEL SEX-APPEAL (1932)
The sex.appel spectrum.

 

                                                PIANO WITH TRAIN

The piano symbolizes the rich people.
 
 
TRES DONES SURREALISTES AGUANTANT EN ELS SEUS BRAÇOS LA PELL D'UNA ORQUESTRA (1936)
Three surrealistic women holding in their arms an orchestra's skin.

 

                                                TELEPHONE

The phone symbolizes the communication. Often the phone appears with useless junk.
 
 
L'EMIGMA DE HITLER (1937)
Hitler's enigm.


 

                                                GALA

Gala was the most important person in Dalí's life.
 
 
GALARINA (1944-45)


 

                                                ANNA MARIA

Anna Maria was Dalí's sister. She was also an important person for Dalí.
 
 
NOIA D'ESQUENA A LA FINESTRA (1925)


 

                                                LEGEND OF SAN GEORGE

This paint represents one legeng of Catalonia. Saint George is the hero because he kills the dragon and he saves the princes. So on the 23th of April we celebre this event and it is one of our Festivities and it's also called The day of the book. People give each other a red rose (it represents the dragon's blood ) and also some books. In every village there are books' and roses' shops on the streets.
 
 
SANT JORDI


 

 

 

                       
Stages

 

                                                1st. STAGE

Dalí painted dead natures, navies and some figures. They are made with oils on canvas. (1916- 1920)
 
 
DÉPARAT. HOMENATGE AL NOTICIARI (1920)


 

                                                2nd. STAGE

Dalí painted dead natures approached to cubism. (1923)
 
 
FIRES DE SANTA CREU DE FIGUERES (1922)


 

                                                3rd. STAGE

Dalí started to paint as a surrealist artist (1928)
 
 
THE MYSTICAL RAILWAY STATION OF PERPIGNAN


 

                                                4th. STAGE

Dalí entered officially into the surrealist movement (1929)
 
 
MONUMENT IMPERIAL A LA DONA-INFANT (1929)
Woman-child's imperial monument.