Salvador Dalí
Birth of Venus, 1963
From the birth of Venus to the fall of Icarus, the surrealist master Salvador Dalí often depicted …
Dalí illustrated Mythology by drawing very closely upon the symbolism of the ancient Greek legends.
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Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.
From the birth of Venus to the fall of Icarus, the surrealist master Salvador Dalí often depicted scenes from classical mythology in his paintings and prints. Dalí’s interest in mythology stemmed from his admiration for the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who taught that ancient myths reveal fundamental truths about the …
Dalí illustrated Mythology by drawing very closely upon the symbolism of the ancient Greek legends.
Using what he called “hazard objectif”(the meaningful manifestation of chance), he would often start with an abstract smudge, created in a single motion, and he developed his theme from this sign of Fate, like the Pythia …
Salvador Dalí was a leading proponent of Surrealism, the 20-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious through strange, dream-like imagery. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision,” he said. Dalí is specially credited with the innovation of “paranoia-criticism,” a philosophy of art making he defined as “irrational understanding based on the interpretive-critical association of delirious phenomena.” In addition to meticulously painting fantastic compositions, such as The Accommodations of Desire (1929) and the melting clocks in his famed The Persistence of Memory (1931), Dalí was a prolific writer and early filmmaker, and cultivated an eccentric public persona with his flamboyant mustache, pet ocelot, and outlandish behavior and quips.
![Alberto Giacometti, ‘[Sculptures in the Studio IX] Paris sans fin, plate 100, before 1965’, 1969](https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=fit&width=400&height=519&quality=80&src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2F0j4D8UUDFV3CB9ZlZm_n3w%2Flarge.jpg "[Sculptures in the Studio IX] Paris sans fin, plate 100, before 1965")
