Who is Salvador Dalí?
Friday, December 3, 2010
11. Salvador Dalí
Here's an artist that I have always been fascinated with. I was lucky enough to see some of his work featured at the Tacoma Art Museum when I was a kid. Dalí painted straight out of his dreams and his paintings pull you into them. Maybe some of these are more like nightmares. Nonetheless, he's a truly strange yet highly skilled artist.
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The Dream. Oil on canvas. 1937.
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Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion. Oil on canvas. 1954.
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The Burning Giraffe. Oil on canvas. 1937.
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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War). Oil on canvas. 1936.
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The Persistence of Memory. Oil on canvas. 1931.
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