Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí was a famous Spanish painter and sculptor who was considered the greatest Surrealist artist. He used bizarre dream imagery and incongruous juxtapositions to create unforgettable landscapes depicting his inner world. Surrealism was an early 20th century artistic movement that attempted to express the subconscious through fantastic imagery and unexpected combinations.
2. A Spanish painter,
sculptor, graphic artist,
and designer
Probably the greatest
Surrealist artist, using
bizarre dream imagery to
create unforgettable and
Salvador unmistakable landscapes
of his inner world.
Domingo
Felipe
Jacinto
Dalí
3. "Psychic automatism in
its pure state, by which
one proposes to
express - verbally, by
means of the written
word, or in any other
manner - the actual
functioning of thought."
A 20th-century literary
-André Breton
SURREALISM? and artistic movement
that attempts to express
the workings of the
Started:1924 subconscious by
Ended: Late 1996 fantastic imagery and
incongruous
It was deeply influenced juxtaposition of subject
by the psychoanalytic matter.
work of Sigmund Freud
and Carl Jung.
4. LE SOMMEIL
Sleep ● El sueño ● Le
Sommeil
Salvador Dali, 1937 - Oil
on canvas, 51 x 78 cm