Know Your Art – Salvador Dali

March 4th, 2011 Posted in Famous Art

6 year old Sophia learns that Dali was an unusual artist. He painted his dreams and nightmares. He believed aliens would send him messages via his mustache and by eating camenbert cheese before going to bed, his dreams would be more interesting to paint. He believed artists were not smart at all and would take offense to being called one. He thought of himself as a genius. He became famous for being a Surrealist painter and for his unusual personality. This was also a kid friendly interview, basic facts. No Sophia has not seen any of Dali’s “other” work. This is a PG :) More info: en.wikipedia.org “Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 — January 23, 1989) was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his “love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes” to a self-styled “Arab lineage,” claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose

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