Salvador Dali, born on May 11, 1904, lived in the town of Figueres in Spain. Dali was a skilled painter and really famous, best known for the eye catching and bizarre images! And i mean bizarre, i don’t understand half of them myself but i find them all really interesting as all of them have strange meanings. He called his paintings ‘hand-painted dream photograph’s in which he drew a lot of religious paintings, illusions and naked people. he also was a designer of jewelry. Here are some of Dalis most interesting and famous paintings.

One of Dalis most famous painting was called “The Persistence of Memory”. It came to him on a hot somers day while being lazy and sunbathing and in a dream while being lazy and sleeping, as you can see Dali was lazy. It shows Dali’s theory of ’softness’ and ‘hardness’, which was all he was thinking about at the time. It is possible to make out a human figure in the middle of the painting, in the strange “monster” that Dali used in several paintings to represent himself – it forming something of a self portrait, reappearing quite a lot in his work. The orange clock at the bottom left of the painting is covered in ants, he often used ants in his paintings as a symbol for death. In general the tree means life, but, in this case, it has the same meaning as the rest of the things in the picture.Anxiety and horroe. in the upper right hand corner of the painting are to remember Dalis homeland. It is rumored that the painting was sprinkled with red wine shortly after it was complete, hopefully not staining it just like the Mona Lisa. thee yellow mountains

One off Dalis most interesting paintings is “Thee Great Masturbator”. This picture contains things like in all his other paintings, whole balanced unity despite the large number of subjects and the huge space that joins sky and ground in the distance. Dali was himself great, which allowed him to put his own life and all his obsessions in his paintings just like this one. One of his obsessions was sex, a deep and good judge was what he said. Dali didn’t hide his personality or his problems, which he showed mostly in this painting. In this painting everything, more or less, has its own ambiguous meaning.The central subject is his self portrait – which he would repeat in many other pictures, very out there but recognizable: the big nose, the yellowish color and the large face. It seems clear that the pictures main character is he himself, and his figure appears surrounded by several objects with mixed meanings. The grasshopper, an animal that caused him terror, filled with ants that signify death. A fish hook as family ties, the lion as sexual desire, stones as his past, a lonely figure as solitude… Masturbation appears in modernist style with the woman who emerges from his portrait, her face close to the male genitals hidden in close-fitting underpants. Near the woman is an iris which symbolizes purity – a complicated way of defining masturbation as the purest sexual relationship. he also used large eyelashes as the hope of all his dream coming true which I’m pretty sure they did.

“eopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man” is actually one of the weirdest paintings iv see but strangely its stuck in my mind because of its coolness. Basically in this paint a man is hatching from an egg, creepy, eh? Imagine we did hatch. And while this ordeal is taking place, a person that seems to be both male and female is watching. I would say the person that is hatching is both genders because it carries both features of the male and female. A small child is holding tightly to the legs of this person looking in the direction the person is pointing. The child seems to be watching with fear, kind of like what i would be. the person may be trying to teach the child the lesson of the event. Its lesson that is trying to be taught is, no matter what male or female life as an adult is a struggle, possibly the only way for a little chap to understand. In my opinion Dali was really smart to think up this and its actually one of my all time favourite paintings.

Sadly, Salvidor Dali died in 1989, gone but not forgotten. his name still remains in headlines and he is known to be the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement, as i don’t know what that means, to me, he remains my favourite artist and ill remember him forever. he died in his museum, in which he lived up above in a tower. He is the the only known artist who had two museums dedicated exclusively to his works at lifetime. Salvidor will go down in history, especially with me and i cant explain how much i would like to have met him. He is a legend in my eyes.