What are some of Dalí's classic works? Dali's work style and evaluation

Salvador Dalí liked to depict dreamscapes, twisting or distorting ordinary objects in a strange and implausible way. Dali's depictions of these objects are finely nuanced, almost to the point of hair-trigger realism, often placing them in very desolate but sunny landscapes. Perhaps the most famous of these enigmatic images is 'Memories of Eternity'.

Eternity of Memories

The painting "Eternity of Memories" was created in 1931, and is very typical of Dali's early surrealist style of painting. The picture shows an empty beach, on the beach lies a monster that looks like a horse and not a horse, and its front part looks like the remnants of a man's head with only eyelashes, nose and tongue absurdly assembled together; there is a platform on the side of the monster, and on the platform grows a dead tree; and the most surprising thing is that several clocks and watches in the present painting have become soft and malleable things, and they appear to be floppy, or hanging on the branches of the trees. The clocks are hanging from the branches of trees, or on platforms, or draped over the backs of monsters, as if the clocks, made of metal, glass, and other hard substances, had been exhausted for too long, and had come unglued. Dali admitted that in the painting "Eternity of Memory", he expressed a kind of "personal dream and hallucination revealed by Freud", which was the result of his own unselective and precise noting of his own subconscious mind, of every idea in his own dream. Moreover, in order to find such surreal hallucinations, Dalí went to psychiatric hospitals to understand the consciousness of sick people, thinking that their words and actions were usually the most sincere reflection of a subconscious world. Dalí used his skillful technique to carefully portray those bizarre images and details, creating a sense of reality that causes hallucinations, allowing the audience to see a bizarre and interesting scene that they can't even see in real life, and to enjoy a little bit of psychopathic relief from the order of the real world.

Facial Apparition and Fruit Plate

One other characteristic of Dali's work is that he mixes together disjointed fragments of the real world. For example, in "Facial Phantom and Fruit Plate", one finds a dreamy landscape in the upper corner of the picture, the bay and the waves, the mountain and the tunnel, while at the same time presenting the shape of a dog's head, whose neck collar is again a railroad viaduct spanning the sea. The dog soars in mid-air - the middle of the dog's torso consists of a fruit dish holding a pear, which in turn blends into the face of a girl, whose eyes are made up of the beach is some strange sea shells, and the beach is full of mysterious and inexplicable grotesques. As in a dream, some things, like ropes and tablecloths, reveal themselves clearly and unexpectedly, while other shapes are hazy and indistinguishable.

Dali's work makes people marvel that this may be the true beauty of surrealist painting. Dali's technique of contrasting hallucinatory imagery with magical realism makes his paintings stand out from all other surrealist works. Throughout his life, he created countless works of art that are beloved and widely recognized, all of which shine with the light of his genius and bring the world infinite reverie.

Artistic Evaluation

Surrealist painting is one of the most widely influential movements in modern Western literature and art, and the second generation of surrealist painters included Pierre Roy, Tanguy, Magritte, Paul Delvaux, and Salvador Dalí (1904.5-1989.1). This group of painters was dedicated to using exquisite and detailed realistic depictions and recognizable regionality of objects as the norms to represent a living environment that completely violated the natural organization and structure, combining fantasy in strange environments in order to show the dream in the painter's mind. Some people also call this kind of painting naturalistic surrealism.

Dali, as the main representative of the movement in the field of fine art, has always been an object of interest and controversy. "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not a madman" and "Every morning I wake up and enjoy an extreme pleasure, the pleasure of being Dali ......". No need to look at Dali's beard, which reaches up to the sky, no need to watch his works full of strange ideas, just these extraordinary words are enough to make you imagine what kind of person he was. Dali's reputation is largely due to his talent for self-promotion, but even more so to his special talent for whimsy. His whimsical ideas stemmed from the hard-to-capture material of life, such as sex, death, perversion, and the firmament. He used to juxtapose things in an illogical way. He transformed his emotional inspiration into a creative process, adding his inner absurdity and strangeness to the outer objective world, distorting the familiar, and then affirming it with a fine *** technique to give reality to his fantasies. Dali always claimed to be the savior of modern art and culture, creating great achievements and epochal victories on a daily basis: Going to Paris, Meeting Gala, Idylls of Love, Surrealist Revolution ...... In order to obtain paradoxical visual images, he was often very meticulous and precise, depicting these creations in a very oblique way. Perhaps it is this meticulous realism, the fact that these images are so clearly present but not real, that is so disturbing.

Salvador Dali recognized that he was manifesting a "personal dream and hallucination as revealed by Freud. In search of such surreal hallucinations, they explored the consciousness of the mentally ill, just as Dr. Freud did, assuming that their words and actions were often a sincere reflection of a subconscious world that could not be seen in everyday life. For the surrealist painters, this was precious material. Therefore, many of Dalí's works always use a combination of specific detailing and arbitrary exaggeration, distortion, omission and symbolization to create a "surreal realm" between reality and imagination, between the concrete and the abstract. When reading his paintings, one can understand all the details, but as a whole, one feels that they are absurd, horrible, illogical, grotesque and mysterious. This kind of "subconscious" scenery was originally subjectively "conceived" by the painter, not at all a subconscious or subconscious expression of feelings.

Dali was in favor of cultivating true fantasy, like clinical paranoia, and there is still some residual consciousness behind the rationally controlled human spirit. These residual consciousnesses keep man in stasis. He also propagated the idea that the delusional approach should be applied not only in everyday work. In his daily life, he often deliberately indulges himself in bizarre behavior. For example, he appeared in a diving suit at the opening of the 1936 Surrealist exhibition in London. His favorite hallucinatory images were often repeated, such as human figures with many half-open drawers, hard objects softened like wax, long, thin legs like silk, and objects flying away in all directions without a center of gravity.

In a sense, Dali's definition of Surrealism is better known than that of André Breton (1896-1966), first published in 1924. This does not mean that there is a fundamental difference between them, but that Dalí, through his paintings, his writings, his eloquence, his movements, his looks, and his way of life, lived to create this 'Surrealism' so y imprinted on the minds of the public that it was no longer just black words on a white page.

Dali's influence in Surrealist painting was the greatest and lasted the longest. Not only his paintings, but also his writings, his eloquence, his actions, and the way he dressed, all propagated his 'surrealism'. He could be said to have surpassed their group of surrealist paintings in utilizing and applying his own imagination. Some of his works, apart from conveying irrationality, eroticism, madness and a certain degree of socio-philosophical outlook, sometimes reflect the hipster mentality of the people.

Over the course of his 70-year career, Dali did a lot of things that left us staring in disbelief. In the midst of all the weirdness and grotesqueries, scoring the "great masters" has become Dali's brand. Together with Velázquez, Goya, Miró, Picasso and other masters of painting, he has reflected the beautiful sky of Spain in the history of Spanish painting, and the history of Spanish painting is legendary. Dalí's eyes are always looking at the world with melancholy.