I visited the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and there I understood the Art by Salvador Dali. I wish to share some of them with you.

1. SALVADOR DALI - BIOGRAPHY
BORN: May 11, 1904, Figueras, Spain
DIED: Jan. 23, 1989, Figueras
Beginnings
As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí assimilated a vast number of artistic styles and
displayed unusual technical facility as a painter.
In the late 1920s, two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style:
• His discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance
of subconscious imagery; and
• His affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to
establish the "greater reality" of man's subconscious over his reason.
Surrealism
To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dalí began to induce hallucinatory states in
himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical.” Once Dalí hit on this method, his
painting style matured with extraordinary rapidity, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the
paintings that made him the world's best-known Surrealist artist.
He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or
otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion.

2. SALVADOR DALI - BIOGRAPHY
Dalí portrayed these objects in meticulous, almost painfully realistic detail and usually placed
them within bleak, sunlit landscapes that were reminiscent of his Catalonian homeland.
Perhaps the most famous of these enigmatic images is "The Persistence of Memory" (1931), in
which limp, melting watches rest in an eerily calm landscape.
With the Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí also made two Surrealistic films:
• Un Chien andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog); and
• L'Âge d'or (1930; The Golden Age).
Both films are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images.

3. SALVADOR DALI - BIOGRAPHY
Renaissance
In the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of the
Renaissance painter Raphael, and as a consequence he was expelled from the Surrealist
movement.
Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, interiors of fashionable shops, and
jewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United
States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.
In the period from 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, though he
continued to explore erotic subjects, to represent childhood memories, and to use themes
centering on his wife, Gala.
Notwithstanding their technical accomplishments, these later paintings are not as highly regarded
as the artist's earlier works.
The most interesting and revealing of Dalí's books is The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942-44).

4. Landscape Near Figueras - 1910

5. Dutch Interior - 1914

6. Fiesta in Figueres - 1916

7. Landscape near Ampurdan - 1914

8. Crepuscular Old Man - 1918

9. Duck- 1918

10. Portrait of Lucia - 1918

11. Portrait of a Gypsy - 1919

12. Self Portrait in the Studio - 1919

13. Saltimbanques - 1921

14. Self Portrait with the neck of Raphael - 1921

15. Voyeur - 1921

16. Bathers of Llaner - 1923

17. Crystalline – Still Life - 1923

18. Cubist Self Portrait - 1923

19. Figure at the Window - 1925

20. Barcelonese Mannequin - 1927

21. Inagural Gooseflesh - 1928

22. Putrefied Donkey - 1928

23. Vertigo - 1930

24. The Persistence of Memory - 1931

25. The Enigma of William Tell - 1933

26. Cardinal - 1934

27. Archaeological Reminiscence of Millet’s’ Angelus - 1935

28. Paranoiac Visage - 1935

29. The Horseman of Death - 1935

30. The Dream Places a Hand on Man’s Shoulder - 1936

31. The Anthropomorphic Cabinet - 1936

32. Swans Reflecting Elephants - 1937

33. Sleep - 1937

34. The Invention of the monsters - 1937

35. Head of a Woman in the Form of a Battle - 1936

36. Spain - 1938

37. The Enigma of Hitler - 1939

38. The Invisible Bust of Voltaire - 1941

39. One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the
Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, 1944

40. Resurrection of the Flesh - 1945

41. The Eye - 1945

42. Galatea of The Spheres - 1952

43. Madonna in Particles - 1952

44. The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory, 1954

45. Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion, 1954

46. Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity, 1954

47. The Last Supper - 1955

48. Sorcery The Seven Arts - 1957

49. Dionysus Spitting the Complete Image of Cadaqués on the Tip
of the Tongue of a Three-Storied Gaudinian Woman, 1958

50. Metamorphosis of Hitler's Face into a Moonlit Landscape with Accompaniment, 1958

51. Birth of A Divinity - 1960

52. Hyperxiological Sky - 1960

53. Mohammed’s dream - 1961

54. The Alchemist - 1962

55. Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins
Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal
Tiger, 1963

56. Toreo Noir - 1969

57. Polyhedron. Basketball Players Being Transformed
into Angels (Assembling a Hologram - the Central Element), 1972

58. Wounded Soft Watch - 1974

59. Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at
Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham
Lincoln - Homage to Rothko, 1976

60. The Garden of Hours - 1981

61. The Road of The Enigma - 1981

62. Atmospherocephalic Figures, 1982

63. Exploded Head - 1982

64. Landscape with Hidden Image of Michelangelo's "David", 1982

65. Three Glorious Enigmas of Gala - 1982