Exploring the Irrational

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Salvador Dalí is best known as the master of Surrealism, and during his lifetime he was one of the most famous and talked about figures in twentieth-century art. The subjects of his work, presented here in 100 ftill-colour reproductions, were nearly always controversial, dealing forthrightly yet flamboyantly with sex and the subconscious.






Salvador
DALI
EXPLORING THE IRRATIONAL
Edmund Swinglehurst

IVith 100 fiill-colour illustrations
Salvador Dab' (1904-1989) was one of the twentieth century's most famous artists, a painter whose remarkably potent work is recognised the world over. Both his extraordinary artwork and a briUiantly eccentric personality account for his universal popularity.
Dalí was an superb draftsman who continually sought to develop new aesthetic approaches to painting. He very much admired the expert techniques displayed by Renaissance artists and sought initially to emulate that high style. While for a time a leading Surrealist—he himself... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Salvador Dalí is best known as the master of Surrealism, and during his lifetime he was one of the most famous and talked about figures in twentieth-century art. The subjects of his work, presented here in 100 ftill-colour reproductions, were nearly always controversial, dealing forthrightly yet flamboyantly with sex and the subconscious.






Salvador
DALI
EXPLORING THE IRRATIONAL
Edmund Swinglehurst

IVith 100 fiill-colour illustrations
Salvador Dab' (1904-1989) was one of the twentieth century's most famous artists, a painter whose remarkably potent work is recognised the world over. Both his extraordinary artwork and a briUiantly eccentric personality account for his universal popularity.
Dalí was an superb draftsman who continually sought to develop new aesthetic approaches to painting. He very much admired the expert techniques displayed by Renaissance artists and sought initially to emulate that high style. While for a time a leading Surrealist—he himself stated with no little aplomb "I am Surrealism!" and remains a prototype of a specific quality of surrealism—he was finally expelled from the volatile group because his art and vision encompassed much more than mere ideology.
Dali's exuberant public life and prolific artistic production resulted in his engaging in many aspects of the arts. Besides painting Dalí was active in the theatre, Uterature and theory, ballet, and film. With the lifelong assistance of his beloved wife Gala, he explored with diligence and enthusiasm both madness and mysticism. He philosophised constantly about the nature of art—his own and the pubUc's varied response to it.
As his reputation grew so did his public displays, artistic and otherwise—he clearly prefigured Warhol and the sixties decade by a long shot. Today he is remembered most fondly not only for his marvellous paintings and the large museums of his work but for his lobsters, his moustache, and his obsession with the shape of his wife. Even years after his death the phenomenon of Dalí continues to provoke and amaze. Vissza