Dali Beyond Reality

 What drives Salvador Dali and his realm of creativity? The first thing that comes to mind is maybe his mind and perhaps it is just wired that way to create unbelievable worlds within his art. Trauma in his life could have led to the way he makes his reality or is it that he is that he thinks outside the box.

Dali is an artist who breaks away from the norm and dives into the world of dreams and nightmares. 

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Salvador Dalí

Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Filmmaker, Printmaker, and Performance Artist

Born: May 11, 1904 - Figueres, Catalonia, Spain

Died: January 23, 1989 - Figueres, Catalonia, Spain

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Summary of Dali

Salvador Dalí is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the 20th century and the most famous Surrealist. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Buñuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Dalí was renowned for his flamboyant personality and role of mischievous provocateur as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work...

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Dali has accomplished his life work in many media and has kept his style of inner mind constant. He has crossed artistic boundaries diving into film, printmaking, sculptor, and performance artist. His dream and success are astounding and quite compelling for the time. Dali is an artist of his time and the movement of his work and others in the surreal world sets the stage for future artists and pushing the boundaries of what the norm of the art world is and. can be.

His future is accompanied by his wife every great artist needs his muse. 

Gala Dalí Salvador Dalí's wife and muse, Gala, whose real name was Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, was considered a mysterious and intuitive woman, as well as inspiring and perceptive.

There has been confusion about her correct birth date, with sources ranging from 1892 and 1895. Her daughter, Cécile, states that it was August 18, 1894, but both biographers Dominique Bona and Ian Gibson list it as August 26, 1894 (the Julian calendar date, which corresponds to September 7, 1894 of the Gregorian calendar). Born in Russia, she spent her childhood in Moscow, graduating from the Brukhonenko Academy for young ladies with high grades. In 1912, Gala was admitted for a deteriorating case of tuberculosis to the Clavadel Sanatorium in Switzerland, where she met her future husband and poet, Paul Éluard.  They were married in 1917 and her only daughter, Cécile, was born the following year. Éluard was instrumental in introducing Gala to key figures of the Surrealist movement, such as André Breton and Louis Aragon.

After a brief affair with the painter Max Ernst ended in 1924, Gala and Dalí begin a long, intense relationship in 1929. It was that year Dalí presented the film, Un Chien Andalou, he had made with Luis Buñuel in Paris, and was introduced there to Gala and Paul Éluard by Camille Goemans, a Belgian poet and gallery owner. Subsequently, Dalí invited them to his summer home in Cadaqués and their unique love affair bloomed into an inseparable bond. Starting in the early 1930’s, Dalí began to sign his canvases with both his and Gala’s names. Eventually, Gala became Dalí’s business manager, responsible for the management of their finances and handling all negotiations with patrons and galleries.  Dalí immortalized Gala in his art, culminating in her saintly portrayal in The Madonna of Port Lligat, which he brought to his audience with the Pope in 1955...

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Dali and Gala stood the test of time and have become a force of creative expression and created a world of Dali's mind where real meets the dream of what worlds of different realities can be. Dali is an artist who is Surreal.