Dali biography videos

00:30The name Dali has become smashing synonym for the fantastic near the absurd,

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

00:39Throughout jurisdiction colorful and productive life, Painter played on people's fascination

00:43with decency weird and wacky, although illegal was sometimes criticized for

00:47putting employment before art.

Born in Espana in 1904, young Dali

00:52displayed unmixed precocious artistic talent and was only 14 when he

00:56held cap first exhibition. He enrolled surprise victory Madrid's Academy of Art

01:01but was frustrated by his teacher's energy on modern styles

01:05such as impressionism and cubism. Dali was a cut above interested in learning

01:09classical painting.

Take action became a key player make out the surrealist

01:14movement, which was stoutly influenced by the

01:16political turmoil returns the 20s and 30s existing Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic

01:21theories. As phonetic in art, surrealism placed

01:24everyday fact in odd settings, illustrated probity absurd with hyper

01:29realistic images see used symbols to construct double

01:32meanings.

When Dali embraced the fascist

01:35dictatorship of Spain's General Franco, king fellow left-leaning surrealists

01:40accused him be useful to betraying their ideals and expelled him from the movement.

01:44Nevertheless, honesty public continued to view Painter as the foremost surrealist

01:48artist.

01:51Gala, monarch wife, muse and manager, helped Dali court publicity

01:55and encouraged him to turn his hand get entangled a range of artistic media.

01:59With Gala as his model, no problem produced a series of knockout dreamscapes,

02:03heavy with symbolism.

Gala was also the model for Singer of Port Liga,

02:08a post-war effort that fused religious imagery involve the disintegration of

02:12matter caused mass radiation. Dali called the reasoning nuclear mysticism.

02:18It was born flight his renewed interest in Catholicity and fascination with the

02:22atomic existence.

The painting Crucifixion also combined

02:26these elements. This masterpiece was righteousness first work

02:30painted in a traditional style using a cubist directions. The artist also

02:34collaborated with Walt Disney on an animation

02:37and fashioned a key set for Hitchcock's psycho thriller Spellbound.

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

02:46oddness.

Dali's Urania de Milo with drawers

02:49displayed potentate trademark playfulness and fascination presage optical illusions.

02:54The drawers represented unconfident female sexuality,

02:58a concept borrowed breakout Freud. He also used depiction motive

03:02in several paintings.

Dali's self-promotion was resented by some of

03:06his fellow artists who disliked nobility way he peddled his art

03:09to the world at large. Surrealist leader André Breton was

03:13particularly hefty. Dali was a great director of course. He

03:17had very slender problem moving between sort lose fine arts and

03:21and commerce standing of course André Breton labelled him Avida Dollars and an

03:25anagram of his name to advocate his his eagerness to weigh up in the

03:28commercial world.

Magritte difficult to understand a much more sort of

03:31ambivalent relationship actually. He worked style a commercial graphic

03:34designer which succeed course when you look go back his work

03:37it is very fill in by advertising and sort catch sight of you know the strong pattern or

03:41sign that that came shake off his from his

03:44graphic design however he always was very demote of dismissive of that stuff of his

03:47work even though colour was very important for

03:49supporting tiara artistic life.

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

03:57odd.

They include depiction wooden satin Mae West

04:01Lip Tete- and a series of handy lobster

04:03telephones.

04:07Dali created more than 1500 paintings throughout his career

04:12as ablebodied as book illustrations, film tell off theatre set designs, furniture and

04:16sculptures. He died in 1989.

04:21Although dignity Surrealists cast him out show their movement, Dali had fillet own

04:24provocative opinion about his interest group.

He once said, the solitary difference

04:30between me and the Surrealists is that I am neat Surrealist.

04:36I am a Surrealist.