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Dali (Paperback)
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Salvador Dali (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and
paradoxical artists of the twentieth century. A painter of
considerable virtuosity, he used a traditional illusionistic style
to create disturbing images filled with references to violence,
death, cannibalism and bizarre sexual practices, from the
extraordinary limp watches in The Persistence of Memory to the
gruesome monster in Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:
Premonition of Civil War and the fetishistic lobster in the famous
Lobster Telephone. Born in Figueras, Spain, Dali was initially
influenced by Impressionism and Cubism, but subsquently became
involved with the Surrealists, the most revolutionary artists of
the time. They regarded his paintings as revealing the normally
hidden world of the unconscious. Indeed the Surrealists' leader,
Andre Breton, remarked: "It is perhaps with Dali that for the first
time the windows of the mind are opened fully wide". However,
Breton later expelled him from the group for this right-wing
sympathies and derided his commercial success in the United States,
calling him 'Avida Dollars'. Dali's response was equally curt: "
The difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a
Surrealist". Not restricting his interests to painting, Dali wrote
three autobiographies, designed sets and costumes for a play by his
friend Federico Garcia Lorca and collaborated with Luis Bunuel in
the film Un Chien andalou, a medium which proved particularly apt
for his provocative imagery.
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