#ArtSaturday Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, 1904 – 1989, known as Salvador Dalí, Spanish Surrealist painter
Salvador Dali (L) pic.twitter.com/k58v1nysqU
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí was not considered a serious student though he was recognized as intelligent.Dalí by Carl van Vechten, 1939 pic.twitter.com/Td1yXovFTW
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí was constantly accused of daydreaming and of trying to stand out from everyone else by wearing odd clothes and wearing his hair long.Dalí with his wife Gala pic.twitter.com/g6QL4g7GEu
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí was expelled from the Academy in 1926, before his exams, when he publicly announced that none of the faculty was competent to judge his work.Dalí, by Alan Warren pic.twitter.com/cSn8djWxD2
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí was well-read, and considered imagination and dreams equal in importance to intellectual thought.He modeled his mustache after that of painter Diego Velasquez. pic.twitter.com/PMV84jhzQk
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
First gained attention and respect as a painter in the Realism style.Landscape, 1914, his earliest known painting, completed when he was 9-10 pic.twitter.com/QiIaWb38Ly
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí began painting at age 6, and virtually all of his early paintings are in the Realism style.Still Life, 1917 pic.twitter.com/wm7uOVaUq1
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“Have no fear of perfection,” wrote Salvador Dalí. “You’ll never reach it.”Still Life with Fish in a Red Bowl, 1923 pic.twitter.com/JEMJALzjBc
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” ~ DalíFigure at a Window, 1925 pic.twitter.com/DVZgioaiC6
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
“The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” ~ DalíBack of a Girl, 1926 pic.twitter.com/djJ8vl7MCb
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
His painting Basket of Bread (1928) brought Dalí international critical acclaim and recognition. pic.twitter.com/rEWfPhD8OC— Dr. Alexandria Szeman: #BelieveSurvivors (@Alexandria_SZ) March 23, 2019
#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” ! DalíPortrait of Gala (his wife), 1932 pic.twitter.com/83YHmuN7J2
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí, although more famous for his paintings in the Surrealism style, painted pictures in the Realism style all his life.The Angelus of Gala (artist’s wife), 1935 pic.twitter.com/vkU8I1aOID
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Basket of Bread, 1945 pic.twitter.com/bckekOv3MZ
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Some of his later works were a mixture of Surrealism, which includes the element of surprise and the unexpected juxtaposition of objects, and Realism.Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, 1958-59 pic.twitter.com/ErceLSlfcE
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Throughout his career, Dalí drew more attention to him than to his works, which annoyed critics and some fans of his work, who apparently wanted the artist to be “invisible.”Dalí and Cats, Photo by Phillipe Halsman, 1948
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ~ DalíVase of Cornflowers, 1959 pic.twitter.com/xWLoLC0rev
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Some members of the Surrealist Movement felt Dalí was using them for his own self-aggrandizement: they insulted his art by calling in “commercial.”Still Life with White Cloth, 1969 pic.twitter.com/W2Mg5pSt9W
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#ArtSaturday Dalí Realism Period
Dalí is best known for his Surrealist paintings, although some of the other members of Surrealism did not respect him or his work.My Wife Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs and Three Vertebrae Becoming a Column and the Sky, 1959 pic.twitter.com/2iWgL2zfwa
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Wow! I was aware of Dali’s pre-Surrealist period, but never knew what you have illuminated. Thank you for this post!
Re: Dali getting kicked out of the Academy when he said that there was no one there good enough to judge his work, can anyone recall the Academy members that expelled him? No, because they were not talented enough to make a name for themselves. Dali transcended their small mind school, and became one of the greatest artists ever.
You’ve very welcome, Newt. I, too, despite minoring in Art History, never knew about Dalí’s Realism paintings, which he apparently did his entire life.
And re: his teachers’ names not being remembered while he and his art are, you made an excellent point.
Hugs,
A