GE 2206-ART APPRECIATION

NAME: Jessica Tagnipez DATE:02-02-23

COURSE & YEAR: BSIT-2A Instructor: Luna Bie Tagon

Salvador Dali

Who Was Salvador Dalí?

Salvador Dali was an acclaimed Spanish artist

during the 20th Century. Born in 1904, Dali is
credited as one of the key members of the
Surrealism movement in Europe during the 1920s
and 1930s. His work explores the relationship
between consciousness and the unconscious.

From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to

practice his art, and he would eventually go on to
study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he
went to Paris and began interacting with artists such
as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Miró, which led
to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best
known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a
landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the
artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from
painting.

Le Sommeil (Sleep), 1937

In Le Sommeil (Sleep), Dali recreated the

kind of large, soft head and virtually non-
existent body that had featured so often in his
paintings around 1929. In this case, however,
the face is certainly not a self-portrait. Sleep
and dreams are par excellence in the realm of
the unconscious, and consequently of special
interest to psychoanalysts and Surrealists.
Crutches had always been a Dali trademark,
hinting at the fragility of the supports which
maintain 'reality', but here nothing seems inherently stable, and even the dog needs to be
propped up! Everything in the picture except the head is bathed in a pale bluish light,
completing the sense of alienation from the world of daylight and rationality