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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali is a brilliant painter and draftsman. More commonly, he was known as a leading Surrealist, probing the irrational and subconscious in his paintings. His style, whether cubist, abstract, realistic, paranoiac-critical, or stereoscopic, was always completely his own. His versatility, just like that of the artists of the Renaissance, manifests itself in several fields where he is helped by artisans whose language he speaks and whom he pushes to the extreme limits of their techniques. His genius, which would have been freely acknowledged, had it flowered in the Renaissance, is today so out of the ordinary, that it provokes our modern world of average bureaucrats. Recently, I was able to view Dorothy Spreckles Munn, which was painted by Dali in 1942. Not only is this painting a fantastic example of his mastery, it also represents many of the reoccurring obsessive themes Dali enjoyed using in his pieces: surreal landscapes, bizarre figures, and his wife, Galarina.


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Posted by: Asare Mabel

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