Salvador Dali was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter. He is often known for his striking and bizarre images in his work.
'The Persistence of Memory' (1931) is one of his most famous works. Many of the surrealist elements that are visible within are associated with erotically explicit objects, dreamlike states, hallucinations, and lonliness. Much of this is created through Dali's precision in rendering unidentifiable objects and his use of space and light, often creating deep and receding spaces with unknown light sources.
Symbolism was explored thoroughly throughout his work. For example, the meting watch is said to suggests Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.Equally, animals reocurr within his work, ants suggest death, deay and immense sexual desire; elephants are to distort space and locusts symbolise waste and fear.
"I am painting pictures which make me die for joy, I am creating with
an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am
making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to
paint them honestly." Salvador Dalí, in Dawn Ades, Dalí and Surrealism.
Salvador Dalí, La Conquête de l'irrationnel (Paris: Éditions surréalistes, 1935)
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