Salvador Dali's painting "The Face of War" was painted in 1940. It was created on the way to the USA, where the artist left Paris, having lost all hope for normal life in Europe.

The Old World is engulfed in war... Impressed by the global tragedy that has unfolded, Dali begins work on the painting while still on the ship.

The meaning of this picture is clear to everyone: in it the author abandons the intricate language of surrealism. Before the viewer is a dead head against the background of a lifeless desert, in the eye sockets and in the mouth there are skulls, in the eye sockets of which, in turn, there are also skulls. Snakes stretch out from the head on all sides and try to bite the same head.

This is how Dali shows the horror of war, its senselessness, unnaturalness and destructiveness of all life on earth.

The handprint on the stone on the right indicates the presence of the viewer: he is watching a terrible apparition in the form of a head from the cave.

The atmosphere of suffering is heightened by muted tones and depressive shades.

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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí was born in Catalonia, in northeastern Spain. Talent for painting manifested itself in early age. Already at the age of 4, he diligently tried to draw. His behavior was always marked by uncontrollable energy, frequent whims and hysterics.

My first painting on a wooden board oil paints Salvador Dali painted it when he was 10 years old. Dali sat all day long in a small room specially allocated to him, drawing pictures.

He received his first lessons in craftsmanship from Professor Joan Nunez, under whose guidance Dali’s talent took on real forms.

At the age of fifteen, Dali was expelled from the monastic school “for obscene behavior,” but was able to successfully pass the exams and enter the institute (as in Spain they called a school providing a completed secondary education).

From the age of 16, Dali began to put his thoughts on paper, from that time literary creativity has also become an integral part of it creative life.

In the early 20s, Dali became interested in the works of the futurists. The extravagant appearance of Dali himself amazed and shocked those around him.

He managed to graduate from the institute in 1921 with excellent grades. He then entered the Art Academy in Madrid.

In 1923, for violating discipline, he was suspended from the academy for a year. During this period, Dali's interest was focused on the work of Pablo Picasso.

In 1925 the first personal exhibition Dali's works in the Dalmau Gallery. This exhibition featured 27 paintings and 5 drawings by the emerging great genius.

The school of painting in which he studied gradually disillusioned him, and in 1926 Dali was expelled from the academy for his freethinking. In the same 1926, Salvador Dali went to Paris in search of something he liked. Having joined Andre Breton's group, he began to create his first surrealist works.

At the beginning of 1929, the premiere of the film “Un Chien Andalou” took place, based on the script by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel. They wrote the script in just six days! In 1930, Salvador Dali's paintings began to bring him fame. The constant themes of his creations were destruction, decay, death, as well as the world of human sexual experiences (the influence of the books of Sigmund Freud).

In the early 30s, Salvador Dali entered into a political conflict with the surrealists. His admiration for Adolf Hitler and his monarchical inclinations ran counter to Breton's ideas. Dali broke with the surrealists after they accused him of counter-revolutionary activities.

In January 1931, the second film based on Dali’s script, “The Golden Age,” premiered in London.

In 1934, Dali married Elena Dyakonova, ex-wife writer Paul Eluard. It was this woman (Gala) who became the muse and inspiration of the genius Dali for the rest of his life. Amazing feature married couple Dali was that they felt and understood each other. Gala lived the life of Dali, and he, in turn, deified her and admired her.

In 1940, after the occupation in France, Dali left for the USA (California), where he opened a new workshop. It is there that the great genius writes one of his best books “ Secret life Salvador Dali, painted by himself."

In 1951, on the eve cold war, Dali develops the theory of "atomic art", published in the same year in the Mystical Manifesto. Dali's goal is to convey to the viewer the idea of ​​the constancy of spiritual existence even after the disappearance of matter. This idea was embodied in his painting “The Exploding Head of Raphael.” In 1953, a large exhibition of retrospective works by Salvador Dali was held in Rome. It featured 24 paintings, 27 drawings, 102 watercolors!

In 1959, Dali and Gala finally set up their home in Port Lligat. By that time, no one could doubt the genius of the great artist. His paintings were bought for huge sums of money by fans and lovers of luxury. The huge canvases painted by Dali in the 60s were valued at huge sums. Many millionaires considered it chic to have paintings by Salvador Dali in their collection.

At the end of the 60s, the relationship between Dali and Gala began to fade. And at Gala’s request, Dali was forced to buy her a castle, where she spent time, preferably in the company of young people.

In 1973, the Dali Museum opened in Figueres. This incomparable surreal creation still delights visitors to this day. The museum is a retrospective of the life of the great artist.

Closer to the 80s, Dali began to have health problems. Doctors suspected Dali had Parkinson's disease. This disease once became fatal for his father.

Gala died on June 10, 1982. Although their relationship by this time could not be called close, Dali perceived her death as a terrible blow.

By the end of 1983 his mood had improved slightly. He began to sometimes walk in the garden and began to paint pictures. But old age took precedence over a brilliant mind.

On August 30, 1984, a fire occurred in Dali's house, as a result of which Dali received burns to 18% of his skin.

By February 1985, Dali’s health had improved somewhat and he was able to give an interview to the largest Spanish newspaper.

But in November 1988, Dali was admitted to the clinic with a diagnosis of heart failure.

Salvador Dali's heart stopped on January 23, 1989. The body was embalmed at his request, and for a week he lay in his museum in Figueres. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to the great genius.

Salvador Dali was buried in the center of his museum under an unmarked slab.

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Surrealism is the complete freedom of the human being and the right to dream. I am not a surrealist, I am surrealism, - S. Dali.

Formation artistic skill Dali took place in the era of early modernity, when his contemporaries largely represented such new artistic movements like expressionism and cubism.

In 1929, the young artist joined the surrealists. This year marked an important turning point in his life, as Salvador Dalí met Gala. She became his lover, wife, muse, model and main inspiration.

Since he was a brilliant draftsman and colorist, Dali drew a lot of inspiration from the old masters. But he used extravagant forms and inventive ways to compose a completely new, modern and innovative style of art. His paintings are distinguished by the use of double images, ironic scenes, optical illusions, dreamscapes and deep symbolism.

Throughout his creative life, Dali was never limited to one direction. He worked with oil paints and watercolors, creating drawings and sculptures, films and photographs. Even the variety of forms of execution was not alien to the artist, including the creation of jewelry and other works applied arts. As a screenwriter, Dali collaborated with the famous director Luis Buñuel, who directed the films “The Golden Age” and “Un Chien Andalou.” They displayed unreal scenes reminiscent of surrealist paintings come to life.

A prolific and extremely gifted master, he left a tremendous legacy for future generations of artists and art lovers. The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation launched an online project Catalog Raisonné of Salvador Dalí for a complete scientific cataloging of the paintings created by Salvador Dalí between 1910 and 1983. The catalog consists of five sections, divided according to the timeline. It was conceived not only to provide comprehensive information about the artist’s work, but also to determine the authorship of the works, since Salvador Dali is one of the most counterfeited painters.

The fantastic talent, imagination and skill of the eccentric Salvador Dali are demonstrated by these 17 examples of his surrealist paintings.

1. “The Ghost of Wermeer of Delft, which can be used as a table,” 1934

This small painting with a rather long original title embodies Dali's admiration for the great Flemish master 17th century, by Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer's self-portrait was executed taking into account Dali's surreal vision.

2. “The Great Masturbator”, 1929

The painting depicts the internal struggle of feelings caused by attitudes towards sexual intercourse. This perception of the artist arose as an awakened childhood memory when he saw a book left by his father, open to a page depicting genitals affected by sexually transmitted diseases.

3. “Giraffe on Fire,” 1937

The artist completed this work before moving to the USA in 1940. Although the master claimed that the painting was apolitical, it, like many others, depicts the deep and disturbing feelings of anxiety and horror that Dalí must have experienced during the turbulent period between the two world wars. A certain part reflects it internal struggle in a relationship civil war in Spain and also refers to the method psychological analysis Freud.

4. “The Face of War”, 1940

The agony of war was also reflected in Dali's work. He believed that his paintings should contain omens of war, which is what we see in the deadly head filled with skulls.

5. “Dream”, 1937

This depicts one of the surreal phenomena - a dream. This is a fragile, unstable reality in the world of the subconscious.

6. “Appearance of a face and a bowl of fruit on the seashore,” 1938

This fantastic painting is especially interesting because in it the author uses double images that give the image itself a multi-level meaning. Metamorphoses, amazing juxtapositions objects and hidden elements characterize Dali's surreal paintings.

7. “The Persistence of Memory,” 1931

This is perhaps the most recognizable surreal painting Salvador Dali, which embodies softness and hardness, symbolizes the relativity of space and time. It draws heavily on Einstein's theory of relativity, although Dali said the idea for the painting came from seeing Camembert cheese melted in the sun.

8. “The Three Sphinxes of Bikini Island,” 1947

This surreal image of Bikini Atoll evokes the memory of war. Three symbolic sphinxes occupy different planes: a human head, a split tree and a mushroom nuclear explosion, talking about the horrors of war. The film explores the relationship between three subjects.

9. “Galatea with Spheres”, 1952

Dali's portrait of his wife is presented through an array of spherical shapes. Gala looks like a portrait of Madonna. The artist, inspired by science, elevated Galatea above the tangible world into the upper ethereal layers.

10. “Molten Clock,” 1954

Another image of an object measuring time has received an ethereal softness, which is not typical for hard pocket watches.

11. “My naked wife contemplating her own flesh, transformed into a staircase, three vertebrae of a column, the sky and architecture,” 1945

Gala from the back. This remarkable image became one of Dali's most eclectic works, combining classicism and surrealism, tranquility and strangeness.

12. "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans", 1936

The second title of the painting is “Premonition of Civil War.” It depicts the supposed horrors of the Spanish Civil War as the artist painted it six months before the conflict began. This was one of Salvador Dali's premonitions.

13. “The Birth of Liquid Desires,” 1931-32

We see one example of a paranoid-critical approach to art. Images of the father and possibly the mother are mixed with a grotesque, unreal image of a hermaphrodite in the middle. The picture is filled with symbolism.

14. “The Riddle of Desire: My Mother, My Mother, My Mother,” 1929

This work, created on Freudian principles, became an example of Dalí's relationship with his mother, whose distorted body appears in the Dalinian desert.

15. Untitled - Design of a fresco painting for Helena Rubinstein, 1942

The images were created for the interior decoration of the premises by order of Elena Rubinstein. This is a frankly surreal picture from the world of fantasy and dreams. The artist was inspired by classical mythology.

16. “Sodom self-satisfaction of an innocent maiden,” 1954

The picture shows female figure and abstract background. The artist explores the issue of repressed sexuality, as follows from the title of the work and the phallic forms that often appear in Dali's work.

17. “Geopolitical Child Watching the Birth of the New Man,” 1943

The artist expressed his skeptical views by painting this picture while in the United States. The shape of the ball seems to be a symbolic incubator of the “new” man, the man of the “new world”.

Today, May 11, is the birthday of the great Spanish painter and sculptor Salvador Dali . His legacy will forever remain with us, because in his works many find a piece of themselves - that very “madness” without which life would be boring and monotonous.

« Surrealism is me“, - the artist shamelessly asserted, and one cannot but agree with him. All his works are imbued with the spirit of surrealism - both paintings and photographs, which he created with unprecedented skill. Dali proclaimed complete freedom from any aesthetic or moral compulsion and went to the very limits in any creative experiment. He did not hesitate to bring to life the most provocative ideas and wrote everything: from love and the sexual revolution, history and technology to society and religion.

Great masturbator

The face of war

Splitting the atom

Hitler's mystery

Christ of Saint Juan de la Cruz

Dali began to be interested in art early and took private painting lessons from the artist while still at school Nunez , professor at the Academy of Arts. Then, at school fine arts At the Academy of Arts, he became close to the literary and artistic circles of Madrid - in particular, Luis Buñuel And Federico Garcia Lorcoy . However, he did not stay long at the Academy - he was expelled for some overly bold ideas, which, however, did not stop him from organizing the first small exhibition of his works and quickly becoming one of the most famous artists Catalonia.

Young women

Self-portrait with Raphael's neck

Basket with bread

Young woman seen from the back

After that Dali meets Gala, which became his muse of surrealism" Arriving at Salvador Dali with her husband, she immediately became inflamed with passion for the artist and left her husband for the sake of a genius. Dali but, absorbed in his feelings, as if he didn’t even notice that his “muse” had not arrived alone. Gala becomes his life partner and source of inspiration. She also became a bridge connecting the genius with the entire avant-garde community - her tact and gentleness allowed him to maintain at least some kind of relationship with his colleagues. The image of the beloved is reflected in many works Dali .

Portrait of Gala with two lamb ribs balancing on her shoulder

My wife, naked, looks at her own body, which has become a ladder, three vertebrae of a column, the sky and architecture

Galarina

Naked Dali, contemplating five ordered bodies, turning into carpuscules, from which Leda Leonardo, fertilized by the face of Gala, is unexpectedly created

Of course, if we talk about painting Dali , one cannot help but recall his most famous works:

A dream inspired by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a moment before waking up

The Persistence of Memory

Flaming Giraffe

Swans reflected in elephants

Pliable Structure with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War)

Anthropomorphic locker

Sodom self-satisfaction of an innocent maiden

Evening spider... hope

The Ghost of Wermeer of Delft, which can also serve as a table

Sculptures Dali brought his surreal talent to new level- from the plane of the canvas they jumped into three-dimensional space, acquiring shape and additional volume. Most of the works became intuitively familiar to the viewer - the master used in them the same images and ideas as in his canvases. To create sculptures Dali I had to spend several hours sculpting in wax and then creating molds for casting figures in bronze. Some of them were then cast in larger sizes.

Besides everything else, Dali was an excellent photographer, and in the century of the very beginning of the development of photography, together with Philip Halsman he managed to create absolutely incredible and surreal photographs.

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Salvador Dali, thanks to his all-consuming talent, could turn everything he touched into a “museum exhibit,” into a masterpiece, a legacy for future generations. Be it a photograph or a painting, a book or an advertisement - he managed to do everything on top level. He is a genius who was cramped in his country, his works were ahead of their time and thanks to this the artist became “great” during his lifetime. Today we, as you may have guessed, will talk about the well-known representative surrealism - Salvador Dali and about the best, most famous of his paintings.

“... I decided and began to comprehend space-time by contemplating levitation, which destroys entropy” - the words of the artist, spoken as a description of his painting depicting the process of loss of form. It was written in 1956. Currently located in the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.

“Landscape near Figueres” is one of the most early works artist, which he painted at the age of 6 on a postcard in 1910. This shining example, illustrating Dali's impressionistic period. It is currently stored in private collection Albert Field in New York.

"The Invisible Man" or "The Invisible Man" is a painting painted by Salvador Dali between 1929 and 1933. Kept in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. This is an unfinished experimental work in which Dali practiced double images. On it the artist very elegantly depicted hidden meanings and contours of objects.

“The Appearance of a Face and a Bowl of Fruit on the Seashore” is another surreal painting that demonstrates metamorphoses, hidden meanings and contours of objects. The semblance of a bowl of fruit on the table and the landscape form the folded figure of a dog and the face of a man. This work was written in 1938. Now located in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

In 1943, during the Second World War, Dali painted a picture about the birth of a new man. We see how a person tries to hatch from an egg, which symbolizes the birth of a new force, and is also a symbol of the universe.

This work was painted in 1940, at the beginning of World War II in California, USA, where the artist lived for 8 years. Through his work he condemns the horrors of war and the suffering of the people facing it. The painting is located in the Boijmans-van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

“Dream caused by the flight of a bee around a pomegranate, a second before awakening” is one of the few paintings painted by Dali in 1944. This is an example of Freud's influence on surrealist art, as well as the artist's attempt to explore the world of dreams. Located in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

The painting was painted in 1954. This is an unconventional, surreal image of Jesus Christ crucified on a tesseract - a hypercube. The woman below is Gala, the wife of Salvador Dali. The artist seems to be hinting that Christ is being crucified by the coldness of this world and soullessness. The painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Undoubtedly, this is one of the best and most famous paintings by Salvador Dali. It was written in 1931. It has three names - “Memory Persistence”, “Memory Persistence” and “Memory Persistence”. Soft watch" It’s interesting that the idea of ​​its creation was inspired by the artist’s view of processed Camembert cheese. It depicts a person's experience of time and memory, which is enlivened by the region of the unconscious, in the form of flowing hours.

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