the Surrealism
Many say that I, Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, am one of the greatest artists representing the surrealist movement and the art in the 20th century. Although I am flattered, of course, many also do not understand the concept.
To begin, you need to understand surrealism itself. It is not just a style of art. Although some may think Surrealism is just another art form, it's actually a cultural movement that was expressed through art, literature, and even politics.
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of the Civil War)
World War 1 had a profound effect on Europe, and many people believed that the war was a result of excessive rational thought. Artists of this belief were known as Dadaists, and they embraced chaos and the irrational. Surrealism developed out of this thought process in Europe in the 1920s. Surrealism also embraced the idea of unconscious desires (things we want that we don't know we want). The Surrealism movement focused on these ideas of chaos in an effort to dig deep into the unconscious mind to find inspiration for creativity. They believed this rejection of overly rational thought would lead to superior expressions.
Surrealist artists wanted to use art to show the inner workings of the mind, especially in regards to areas of sexuality or violence, which they considered to be frequently oppressed. In fact, artists often sought psychoanalysis to dig up deep, repressed feelings to use for inspiration. Surrealist artists wanted to create work that made the viewer think. None of the art has a solid answer. Even so, Surrealist art has a few characteristics you may notice.
Many of these artists (including me) frequently used symbolism. For example, a heart may symbolise love, a smile might symbolise happiness. Recurring images in my own paintings include elephants with brittle legs representing weightlessness; ants, my symbol for decay and death; and melting watches, symbolic of the human perception of time.
An addition I have done to the Surrealist movement was creating the paranoiac-critical method. It is a technique in Surrealism which I have developed in the early 1930s. It is used by the artist to tap into his or her subconscious through systematic irrational thought and a self-induced paranoid state. Considered one of the main achievements of surrealism, I used it in several of my paintings, especially those involving optical illusions etc.
Swans Reflecting Elephants, an example.
Another example: Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
A piece I would like to explain by itself in this article is the Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee, since many were intrigued with this piece (not unlike the others)- but ironically it has less weird and uncanny things than others.
Julie Curtiss, Appetizer, 2017.
Photography
Mary Reid Kelley, Swinburne's Pasiphae, 2014
Videogames
My most famous art piece- The Persistence Of Memory.
To begin, you need to understand surrealism itself. It is not just a style of art. Although some may think Surrealism is just another art form, it's actually a cultural movement that was expressed through art, literature, and even politics.
World War 1 had a profound effect on Europe, and many people believed that the war was a result of excessive rational thought. Artists of this belief were known as Dadaists, and they embraced chaos and the irrational. Surrealism developed out of this thought process in Europe in the 1920s. Surrealism also embraced the idea of unconscious desires (things we want that we don't know we want). The Surrealism movement focused on these ideas of chaos in an effort to dig deep into the unconscious mind to find inspiration for creativity. They believed this rejection of overly rational thought would lead to superior expressions.
Surrealist artists wanted to use art to show the inner workings of the mind, especially in regards to areas of sexuality or violence, which they considered to be frequently oppressed. In fact, artists often sought psychoanalysis to dig up deep, repressed feelings to use for inspiration. Surrealist artists wanted to create work that made the viewer think. None of the art has a solid answer. Even so, Surrealist art has a few characteristics you may notice.
Many of these artists (including me) frequently used symbolism. For example, a heart may symbolise love, a smile might symbolise happiness. Recurring images in my own paintings include elephants with brittle legs representing weightlessness; ants, my symbol for decay and death; and melting watches, symbolic of the human perception of time.
An addition I have done to the Surrealist movement was creating the paranoiac-critical method. It is a technique in Surrealism which I have developed in the early 1930s. It is used by the artist to tap into his or her subconscious through systematic irrational thought and a self-induced paranoid state. Considered one of the main achievements of surrealism, I used it in several of my paintings, especially those involving optical illusions etc.
A piece I would like to explain by itself in this article is the Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee, since many were intrigued with this piece (not unlike the others)- but ironically it has less weird and uncanny things than others.
This painting was intended “to express for the first time in images Freud’s discovery of the typical dream with a lengthy narrative, the consequence of the instantaneousness of a chance event which causes the sleeper to wake up.” It shows the sleeping figure of my wife Gala floating above a rock. Beside her naked body, two drops of water, a pomegranate and a bee are also floating. Gala’s dream is prompted by the buzzing of the bee and is portrayed in the upper half of the canvas: A pomegranate bursts open to release a giant red fish from whose mouth two ferocious tigers jump out together with a bayonet which will soon wake Gala from her peaceful sleep. The elephant, later a recurring image in my works, is a distorted version of Elephant and Obelisk, a sculpture by famous Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Hopefully this article has managed to make it easier to conceive Surrealism and what I was trying to achieve. (Here is a video that might help as well.)
Surrealism, although not as popular, still takes place in a lot of modern media.
Like art
Photography
Videogames
Sort of a preview here.
And animation.
Double King
The Elephant's Garden
Surrealism is still present with us in this day. What started out as a counter-idea to the common is still alive; and it must be kept that way. Or else, we might fall into the cycle of being common.
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