My happiest memories in school (there were few) were during my art history
lectures, where I’d get lost in the theory and history of surrealist painters
and how they found their influences. I decided to do a little revisiting on one
my favourite surrealist artists, Salvador Dali.
Born in Figueras, Spain, Dali was an only child, who was
said to have developed an intense and quite egocentric nature. His imagination was
so intense that he claims to recall intra-uterine images. He described them as ‘paradise’
and ‘the colour of hell’ with ‘soft, warm immobility’s’.
Dali's childhood urge was to be a cook, but he started
painting at the age of six. Soon he showed signs of aggression and was sent
away by his parents to live with a family friend, Pitchot, also an artist. His desire
to do the exact opposite of his friends and stamp his uniqueness upon the world
sought to precipitate itself in violence. In one such incident, Dali, while
walking with a friend, pushed him off of a fifteen foot high bridge onto the
rocks below. Further, Dali almost numbed the situation by watching the companion’s
mother take bowls of his blood out of the room and calmly ate a bowl of
cherries. Dali's acts of sadism and masochism didn't cease with time. One of
his sources of enjoyment was throwing himself down stairs. 'The pain' he said, 'was insignificant, the pleasure was immense'.
Pleasure and pain seemed intimately entwined. Dali wanted both.
Dali used to stand on his head for substantial periods of
time to induce hallucinatory images. Amongst Dali's most famous friends were
Picasso and Freud. Indeed much of the surrealist movement can be paralleled
with the work of Freud at that time. Psychoanalytic theory purported to explain
and interpret dreams, hidden unconscious desires and the tapestry of symbolism
thereof. This is the foundation of the surrealist movement.
(source: http://www.surrealists.co.uk/dali.php)
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