Salvador Dali framed print

"The melting clock, 1931"

Main works :

The Melting clock, The Persistence of Memory, Christ of Saint John of the Cross

Artistic movements :

Surrealism

Inspiration, influence :

The impressionism until 1919, the cubism then. Besides, the psychoanalysis, which was a major discovery of the life of Salvador Dali, also marked his work.

His contemporaries :

Joan Miro and of course Pablo Picasso whom Salvador Dali admired and whom he qualified as a genius, but also writers (Paul Eluard, Breton André or Garcia Lorca) and the great surrealists : Buñuel, Magritte or Tanguy.

To keep in mind :

Beyond the painter, the character Salvador Dali, cultivated an image of "strange super-artist"... He liked that we speak about him, for the better or for the worse...

To go further :

"Un Chien Andalou ( An Andalusian Dog)", co-writed in 1929 with Buñuel, is a short movie which put the milestones of the visual surrealism, as well as the strange and the narcissism as a kind of art.