Dali

The best thing of Dalí has said he himself to it. It was always a autocomplacido genius that created a scandalous and amused universe.

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueras in 1904. He studied in Madrid, the School of Beautiful Arts of San Fernando and lived in the Residence of Students, the Spanish intellectual center of more outstanding vanguard of the time. He wished to make the opposite who the others, from there his constant extravagances, and was expelled from the Academy of San Fernando in 1926.

In 1928 he travels to Paris and one will become the most scandalous and noisy member of the group of the surrealistas. Always looking for the scandal, he writes with Buñuel two scripts of cinema, a dog Andalusian and the golden age. He knows Finery, at that time woman of André Bretón, who will be his musa and his wife. Dot the blood is sweeter than the honey, with which it is revealed like an authentic surrealista. Dalí creates the method critic-paranoico with the purpose of harnessing the imagination and waking up the hallucinatory faculties of the spirit.

In 1933 it prevails and it makes money in the United States selling pictures and causing scandals, the world of the propaganda was habitual in the United States and Dalí knew to take advantage of giving it loose rein to its imagination. But under his appearance a classic painter hides, in addition, the propaganda that is becoming null and void to the surrealistas and will expel to him from the group. In 1948 it resigns to his condition of escandalizador and accepts all the orders, which still more scandalizes its coreligionists. It returns to Spain, a pro-Franco Spain that receives to him with the open arms.

Dalí defines its pictorial style in a moment. In 1925 dot the young person of backs, bread Basket and the young person in the window. Its style is rabidly figurative. Dalí is a great sketcher, and has an extraordinary ability to take to the linen cloth the strangest forms. He is a outlandish one that it has, at the same time, brilliant works and smaller works. In 1929 dot the spring and the great mastrubador. He is scandalous until in the titles.

Most amazing it is the ability of Dalí and its capacity for the figurative drawing, its virtuosity arrives at the end of which their pictures could happen through color photographs.

In 1931 dot the persistence of the memory, one of its more well-known and typical pictures, with its flat bottoms, the line of the low horizon, creating a semidesert space that evokes a onírico world. Another characteristic characteristic is the soft forms, that only maintain thanks to canes, forms without skeleton. In 1934 dot the weaning of the movable food and makes numerous pictures in full dress.

Its prodigal imagination allows him to conceive strange figures and to compose them. Their pictures clean and are ordered, and somewhat manieristas in their treatment. They are luminous and amused pictures. In 1936 and 1937 dot the great paranoico, the metamorphosis of Narcissus and Cannibalism in autumn, influenced by the events of the civil war.

To his return to Spain it approaches the religious subject for the first time, he who had proclaimed himself atheistic. Dot the Madonna de Port Lligat, Christ of San Juan de la Cruz, the last supper, the supper, Santiago the Greater one, the dream of Cristóbal Columbus, with which it approaches the historical subject, of the Spanish Empire.

Important works hers are the young person of backs, the young person in the window, bread Basket, the blood is sweeter than the honey, Evocación to the appearance of Lenin, Been born of liquid desire, Picture of Buñuel, the spring, the great mastrubador, the persistence of the memory, the weaning of the movable food, soft Construction with cooked kidney beans, the phantom of the sex-appeal, Giraffe burning, Dream, Impression of Africa, the great paranoico, the metamorphosis of Narcissus, paranoico Face, autumnal Cannibalism, Premonition of the civil war, the last supper, the Madona de Port Lligat, Christ of San Juan de la Cruz, the supper, atomic Leda, Santiago the Greater one, the dream of Cristóbal Columbus.

Dalí also worked for the scene. It decorates the dramas of Lorca, Mariana Pineda, and some scenery for the Ballets Russian of Diaguilev.

The knowledge a genius makes him be conscious of the value of its company/signature and made numerous drawings to pencil, sometimes notes of study, much more synthetic, that with their company/signature reached astronomical numbers. In 1980 it dies Gallic and its public activity diminishes, only broken to put in the market its millionaire works.

Also it was extended in the decoration of ceramics and the crafts. It made small sculptures with aesthetic a very different, more decorative and abstract one. In his museum of Figueras it reunited an enormous work for a public who first of all has itself to amuse. Su megalomanía has given genius conscience him, and from his watchtower it attacked against all the painters of his time, mainly to cause to them.

Dalí died the 23 of January of 1989 after a stay in the hospital of something more of a month than it was relayed by television to newspaper. Once again the world with the machines returned first of all to leave its spirit exhibitionist being from the hospital his around.