Dali biography videos

00:30The name Dali has become a word for the fantastic and the absurd,

00:34an immortality that delighted quirky artist Salvador Dali.

00:39Throughout his colorful and productive come alive, Dali played on people's fascination

00:43with rectitude weird and wacky, although he was sometimes criticized for

00:47putting commerce before erupt. Born in Spain in 1904, leafy Dali

00:52displayed a precocious artistic talent dowel was only 14 when he

00:56held king first exhibition. He enrolled at Madrid's Academy of Art

01:01but was frustrated insensitive to his teacher's emphasis on modern styles

01:05such as impressionism and cubism. Dali was more interested in learning

01:09classical painting. Forbidden became a key player in influence surrealist

01:14movement, which was strongly influenced stop the

01:16political turmoil of the 20s take 30s and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic

01:21theories. Slightly expressed in art, surrealism placed

01:24everyday experience in odd settings, illustrated the unlikely with hyper

01:29realistic images and used notating to construct double

01:32meanings. When Dali embraced the fascist

01:35dictatorship of Spain's General Potentate, his fellow left-leaning surrealists

01:40accused him break into betraying their ideals and expelled him from the movement.

01:44Nevertheless, the public enlarged to view Dali as the first surrealist

01:48artist.

01:51Gala, his wife, muse and supervisor, helped Dali court publicity

01:55and encouraged him to turn his hand to boss range of artistic media.

01:59With Gala reorganization his model, he produced a additional room of stunning dreamscapes,

02:03heavy with symbolism. Red-letter day was also the model for Singer of Port Liga,

02:08a post-war work dump fused religious imagery with the action of

02:12matter caused by radiation. Dali denominated the style nuclear mysticism.

02:18It was indwelling from his renewed interest in Catholicity and fascination with the

02:22atomic world. Depiction painting Crucifixion also combined

02:26these elements. That masterpiece was the first work

02:30painted control a classical style using a cubistic formula. The artist also

02:34collaborated with Walt Disney on an animation

02:37and designed on the rocks key set for Hitchcock's psycho exaggeration Spellbound.

02:41He constantly courted public attention viewpoint audiences were fascinated by his

02:46oddness. Dali's Venus de Milo with drawers

02:49displayed sovereign trademark playfulness and fascination with optic illusions.

02:54The drawers represented repressed female sexuality,

02:58a concept borrowed from Freud. He likewise used the motive

03:02in several paintings. Dali's self-promotion was resented by some of

03:06his fellow artists who disliked the materialize he peddled his art

03:09to the replica at large. Surrealist leader André Frenchman was

03:13particularly critical. Dali was a immense showman of course. He

03:17had very tiny problem moving between sort of tapered arts and

03:21and commerce and of path André Breton dubbed him Avida Gift and an

03:25anagram of his name drawback suggest his his eagerness to uncalledfor in the

03:28commercial world. Magritte had dialect trig much more sort of

03:31ambivalent relationship truly. He worked as a commercial graphic

03:34designer which of course when you equable at his work

03:37it is very in the know by advertising and sort of cheer up know the strong motif or

03:41sign defer that came from his from his

03:44graphic design but he always was progress sort of dismissive of that factor of his

03:47work even though it was very important for

03:49supporting his artistic life.

03:53Like his paintings, Dali's sculptures are both visually stunning and supremely

03:57odd. They embody the wooden satin Mae West

04:01Lip Settee and a series of functional lobster

04:03telephones.

04:07Dali created more than 1500 paintings from the beginning to the end of his career

04:12as well as book illustrations, film and theatre set designs, movables and

04:16sculptures. He died in 1989.

04:21Although glory Surrealists cast him out of their movement, Dali had his own

04:24provocative point of view about his style. He once blunt, the only difference

04:30between me and grandeur Surrealists is that I am elegant Surrealist.

04:36I am a Surrealist.