Salvador Dali The Man And His Works

Salvador Dali's life and works share intelligence and fantasy without a clearly defined border.

These remarks made about Dali is telling:
"At best labelled eccentric, at worst a paranoid lunatic, truly, he should be seen for what he painted: a surrealist, a modern-day alchemist, a man with one leg in this reality, and one leg in the other, his waxed moustache strangely suspended between a world where gravity exists, yet does somehow not seem to affect him too much. When once interviewed on an American television show, Dalí referred to himself in the third person, proclaiming "Dalí is immortal and will not die". In fact, Dali died several times. He had died a few years before he was born. He died as a young artist, when Dali broke with the Surrealist movement, whose members, like Bréton, began to refer to Dali in the past tense, as if he had died. He died when Gala died in 1982. He also died of heart failure on January 23, 1989, in Figueres."

More of this remarkable man's works.

From Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia

In 1941, American photographer Philippe Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in New York City and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dali Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, water thrown from a bucket, an easel, a footstool and Salvador Dalí all seemingly suspended in mid-air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí's work Leda Atomica (at that which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats.) Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts to be satisfied with the result. This is the unretouched version of the photograph that was published in LIFE magazine. In this version the wires suspending the easel and the painting, the hand of the assistant holding the chair and the prop holding up the footstool can still be seen. The frame on the easel is still empty.

The copyright for this photo was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office but according to the U.S. Library of Congress was not renewed, putting it in the public domain in the United States and countries which adopted the rule of the shorter term.

Here is a collaborative work by Salvador Dali with Walt Disney

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And some of Dali's paintings animated by talented admirers:

Uploaded by Hooyaiyei on Jan 5, 2007
Salvador Dali
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