Salvador Dali

Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination. Artists produce work to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. Salvador Dalí was an artist that created incredible art. His intensely technical yet highly unusual paintings and other forms of art had an impact on the new generation of imaginative expression. From his personal life to his professional attempts, he always took great risks and proved how amazing the world can be when you create and embrace pure, boundless creativity. Salvador Dalí created twelve paintings based on the twelve chapters of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Salvador told the story of alice’s adventure on 12 simple canvases. Each painting showed each detail and the painting showed

Dalí’s father quickly realized that his son wasn’t fit for public school. So he enrolled 6-year-old Salvador in the Hispano-French School of the Immaculate Conception where he learned French. The primary language he would later use as an artist. Dalí spent his childhood and early teenage years in Catalonia. There, he drew and painted the seaside landscape and met his early mentor Ramon Pichot. Cadaques is also where Dalí’s parents built him his first art studio. Dalí’s1920s life perfectly reflected the decade’s “roaring” nickname. But in 1921, his mother died of breast cancer, devastating 16-year-old Salvador. The next year, his father married his deceased wife’s sister. Four years after being accepted to the San Fernando Academy of Art in Madrid, he was expelled after refusing to be examined in the theory of art and declaring the examiners incompetent to judge him. He experimented with futurism, impressionism and cubism. During one of his several trips to Paris, movement leader Andre Breton exposed him to the world of surrealism. In 1925, Dalí had his first solo exhibition in Barcelona. The decade saw his works showcased throughout the world. After leaving the academy, he returned to Catalonia where his art became increasingly bizarre

Personally, my favorite painting was for chapter two. The way Salvador Dalí painted this piece of art is vary specific to the chapter and the symbols the painting shows is very wise and clever. In this chapter, Alice is very upset because she is too big to fit through the hole to get to the pretty garden she wanted to get to. The painting was showing the tears that Alice cried during the chapter, and the tear are a symbol of Alice’s immaturity. Salvador painted the tears of Alice by covered the whole canvas with tears falling down the painting in dark, sorrow feeling colors. The colors of the tears were a symbol of how upset Alice was. The size of the tears were also a symbol of how tall and big Alice was. The size of the tears corresponded to the size of Alice’s body. Salvador chose to add a little bit of red into the picture. I think he put that color there in that specific area because Alice thought she wouldn’t grow back to her normal size. Alice thought she would die this size and the red color is a symbol of death. The tears coming from Alice is a symbol of her immaturity because she was crying over much of nothing. The changing sizes of her body throughout the book is showing how wonderland is letting Alice realize who she really is and the adult she will become. Alice is large in this chapter, but her behavior hasn’t changed yet. No adult will cry over something so silly like this, but a child