Salvador Dali Museum

As the largest collection of Salvador Dali paintings outside of Europe, the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg should be a museum most people should get to know. The museum was first opened in 1982 and, it was rebuild and reopened to the public in January 11, 2011. The new museum hold 7 of 18 “masterpieces” created by Dali, and the private collection of A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse, who became great friends with Salvador and Gala Dali. The path in the museum is mostly predetermined but there is always a way to make it your own special path. What I usually do is that I see my favorite paintings first analyze them try to find new things in it that I haven’t noticed before and then I look at the other paintings in the gallery.
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This painting is not as large as The Discovery Of America By Christopher Columbus; the painting is 69x69 inches. To understand this portrait you could need to know about Dali’s childhood to comprehend the significant it have in his life. Dali’s brother was also named Salvador Dali, he died before Dali was born and his parents gave him the same name and their dead child. The portrait was very calculated. The main image is made out of cherries. The portrait was done for personal reasons. He wanted to remember is brother, but at the same time he wanted everyone to know that they weren’t the same person. He felt his parents gave him the same name as his dead brother because they wanted him to stay with them, and somewhat deny that their child had died. One question that I have is why did it take him almost 60 years to paint a portrait of his brother? Was it to painful to have a physical reminder of his brother around him? Having lost some family member I may understand why it took him that long because, someday are harder than others especially when your parents are expecting you to be someone your not. This is what I think happened to Dali while he was a young