Salvador Dali Influences
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Jeanne Reed
Mi’chel Jarjoura
Art Appreciation (Web Class)
11/25/2012
The Not So Secret Life of Salvador Dali When one hears the name of Salvador Dali, many things probably come to mind: painter, surrealist, creative, artistic genius… No matter what first comes to one’s mind, and whether one likes him or not, most would agree that Salvador Dali was, more than anything else, unique. Yes, Dali had many influences such as Velazquez, Goya, El Creco, Durer, Leonardo, and Michelangelo (Bradley, 465), but he took their influence and developed a unique style of his own. Dali even made himself rather unique; sporting the curled mustache while often wearing a cape and carrying a walking stick (The Biography Channel Website, 2012). Once, he even delivered a lecture wearing a diving suit (Chilvers, 163), and attended a ball wearing a glass case holding a brazier across his chest (The Biography Channel Website, 2012)! But if we look back at the start of his life, we can get a pretty good idea how he obtained such a whimsical persona. Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueras, Spain. Being born into the situation …show more content…
This was also the year Salvador met a Russian immigrant named Elena Diakonava, wife of Surrealist writer Paul Eluard. Because of a strong connection between the two, Elena, who went by Gala, left her husband to be with Salvador. She became his inspiration, his strength, his business partner (taking care of the legal and financial aspects of Salvador’s art) and eventually, Gala became Salvador’s wife (The Biography Channel Website, 2012). From this point, Dali devoted himself to the transcription of dreams and paranoiac visions (Rosenblum, 226). He developed what was to be called the “paranoiac critical method” (Varia, 389 & Langmuir, 181) or “critical paranoia” which involved embellishing on the images of his dreams and delusions and fusing them together with the appearance of the natural world. Dali
Reed,
Jeanne Reed
Mi’chel Jarjoura
Art Appreciation (Web Class)
11/25/2012
The Not So Secret Life of Salvador Dali When one hears the name of Salvador Dali, many things probably come to mind: painter, surrealist, creative, artistic genius… No matter what first comes to one’s mind, and whether one likes him or not, most would agree that Salvador Dali was, more than anything else, unique. Yes, Dali had many influences such as Velazquez, Goya, El Creco, Durer, Leonardo, and Michelangelo (Bradley, 465), but he took their influence and developed a unique style of his own. Dali even made himself rather unique; sporting the curled mustache while often wearing a cape and carrying a walking stick (The Biography Channel Website, 2012). Once, he even delivered a lecture wearing a diving suit (Chilvers, 163), and attended a ball wearing a glass case holding a brazier across his chest (The Biography Channel Website, 2012)! But if we look back at the start of his life, we can get a pretty good idea how he obtained such a whimsical persona. Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueras, Spain. Being born into the situation …show more content…
This was also the year Salvador met a Russian immigrant named Elena Diakonava, wife of Surrealist writer Paul Eluard. Because of a strong connection between the two, Elena, who went by Gala, left her husband to be with Salvador. She became his inspiration, his strength, his business partner (taking care of the legal and financial aspects of Salvador’s art) and eventually, Gala became Salvador’s wife (The Biography Channel Website, 2012). From this point, Dali devoted himself to the transcription of dreams and paranoiac visions (Rosenblum, 226). He developed what was to be called the “paranoiac critical method” (Varia, 389 & Langmuir, 181) or “critical paranoia” which involved embellishing on the images of his dreams and delusions and fusing them together with the appearance of the natural world. Dali
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