Surrelism
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but was permanently expelled after he claimed that there wasn’t anyone at the school who was intelligent enough to grade his final exams. He continue to evolve his persona in art and in life studying classical art by Raphela ,Bronzio and even adapted his now famous curled mustache from Diego Velazquez(bio.com 1).
After expulsion he visited Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. Between 1926and 1930 Dali visited them frequently. Miro, Picasso, Magritte, and poet Paul Eluard, introduced Dali to Surrealism. The paintings he produced during this time where heavily influenced by them; Honey is sweeter than blood(1927), The Lugubrious Game(1929),The great Masturbator(1929), The first days of Spring(1929) and The profanation of the host(1929) . The year of 1929 was the start of many things for Dali. He joined the Surrealists lead by Andre Brenton and he held his first one man show in Paris. He and film director Luis Bunuel created the film An Andalusian Dog, in which he wrote parts of the script. He was a fan of Sigmund Freud’s theories on Psychoanalysis and found it enjoyable to create paintings that explored the deeper meanings of his dreams. His style evolved again. Surrealism spoke to him. It provided him with another outlet in which he could be himself. Encyclopedia Britannica explains the reason his artistic style matured “His discovery of Sigmund Freud’s writing on erotic significance of subconscious imagery, and his affiliation with the surrealists in Paris” (Bio 1). He was famous for taking drugs to induce his “paranoiac critical “state. He thought it enhanced his creativity. Dali seemed too focused at this time on using sexual symbolism, as to describe sensation and what these feelings may mean. He used a collage format to fit multiple scenes in one painting. These paintings where filed with dream like images no doubt using some classical techniques from early renaissance artists. He also met Paul Elaurd’s wife Elena Diakonova. her nickname was Gala. Although she was 10 years older than him, he fell deeply in love with her and she left Eluard to be with him. Eluard continued to work with Dali on various shows and exhibitions after that dispite this event.
In 1930 he collaborated again with Luis Bunuel in the film The Golden Age. It is remembered for its startling opening scene in which a human eye is slashed open by a razor blade. Now rising to fame he attracted clientele. Viscount and Viscountess Charles and Marie Laure were his first patrons. The husband and wife bought many Avant -garde style art in the 1920’s. Dali continued to paint and in 1931 created The persistence of memory. It is famously synonymous with the surrealist movement. The watches in the painting seem to melt. Projecting the thought that time has no meaning in his world but everything else is dead or can be destroyed. An idea animated by Einstein’s theory as well.
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