Salvador dalí

Salvador Dalí Salvador Dalí was a multi talented artist. He was a print maker, painter, filmmaker, photographer, designer, jeweler, sculptor, an artist in every sense of the word….but most importantly, he remains one of the 20th century’s lasting artistic master.

Salvador Dalí’s most famous works are undoubtedly his paintings.

He studied the works of the “masters” including, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer, Raphael, and Da Vinci. It is evident in his earliest of works that Dalí was profoundly influence by realism.

It wasn’t till his twenties that Dalí fell under the spell of Surrealism and his life changed forever.

Throughout Dalí’s paintings you can see a variety of influences.

A religious influence as seen in the Temptation of St. Anthony

The influence of Spain in the Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, 1936

The Persistence of Memory, 1931

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)

Elephants, 1948

Paranoiac Face, 1937

The Anthropomorphic Cabinet, 1936

Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937

The Face of War, 1941

Portrait of Picasso, 1947

Ship with Butterfly Sails

Head Exploding, 1951

Allegory of an American Christmas, 1934

Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937

Caravan

Geopoliticus Child - Watching the Birth of the New Man