Salvador Dali

One of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Salvador Dali is considered a master of surrealism, a movement that promoted the expression of unconscious creativity through surrealistic imagery. The artist is primarily known for his paintings, but his long career included sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, as well as filmmaking, in which he collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Bunuel. Dalí was famed not only for his technical mastery but also for his exuberance and his mischievous nature. Bidsquare online live auctions offer a fascinating collection of Salvador Dali's artwork. 

Early in his career, he displayed the same interest in organic morphology as Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. By his style of hyper-realism and religious symbolism, his later paintings also reveal a deep affinity with Classical and Renaissance art. A surrealist silent film produced with Spanish director Luis Buuel in 1929, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), introduced Dali to the art world. This film was instrumental in bringing the authors into contact with André Breton's French surrealist circle. His paintings from 1929 to 1973 include several surrealist masterpieces. His work, The Persistence of Memory, is perhaps his most famous, with clocks melting amid idyllic surroundings to depict the oddity of time. Using his painting as a way of systematizing confusion and discrediting reality, Salvador Dali’s art seamlessly merges reality and fantasy. He was most influential in Surrealism with the paranoiac-critical method introduced in the 1930s. In addition, he wrote essays about surrealist objects that were usually comprised of preexisting materials, such as Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips Sofa.

He began to paint more academically in the late 1930s in the style of Renaissance masters. Several paintings in his collection show an appreciation for Raphael, including Raphaelesque Head Exploding, Poetry of America, and Maximum Speed of Raphael's Madonna. While living in the U.S. during WWII, Dali worked in many fields, including the design of furniture, theatre sets, jewelry, and storefronts for trendy shops.  His autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dali was published in 1942, making it one of his most memorable books. Upon returning to Spain in 1948, Dali produced several sculptures, paintings, and objects throughout the rest of his artistic career.

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