Monday, 2 November 2015

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist born in  1904, best known for his surrealist work. also know for his surreal films. Dali was a multitalented artist, his work ranged from 2d to 3d, from surrealism to realism, from chotic to harmonized. Dali attended the San Fernado Academy of Fine Art and became internationally recognzed when he showed three of his works at the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928. Included in the three piece was his work intittled "The basket of Bread"

The following year Dali joined the surrealists, soon after became the leader of the Surrealist Movement. But sadly with the approach of the war, Dali had a clash with the surrealists and was expelled from the surrrealists. Dali moved away from surrealist work and went on to doing lots of diffrent medias and wasnt know to not be limited to any particulat style. his works included oils, water colours, drawings, graphics, sculptures, photographs, jewels, films and performance peices. Dali spent the last two years of his life secluded. Dali set the standard of creative artists for the twentieth century. Dali's most well known piece is called "The Persistence of Memory" and unless you live under a rock, you will have seen it.the piece is the classic melting cloaks on a desert landscape.