Salvador Dali
In my opinion, Dali was doing more than just selling a product, he was giving the public media Surrealism. This is fascinating because he takes Surrealism and applies it to everything he does. Wherever Dali went Surrealism followed.
Surrealism is trying to get into the subconscious mind. Dreams were one of the vehicles to get into the subconscious mind in order to draw out what is hidden or suppressed. Although Dali was a master in the Surrealism movement, he becomes obsessed with certain objects and people that he painted more than once. Just to name a few, his wife Gala, lobsters, eggs, and weird shapes that are replica's of rocks off the coast of Cadaques Spain were seen in a lot of his paintings. These objects and people I just mentioned aren't hidden in your subconscious mind, I think Dali was a genius in order to put together the "reuniting conscious and unconscious realms" in a way that the viewer is put in a subjective position to interpret what he sees
according to his own experiences in life.
I think Salvador Dali's contribution to the arts is amazing. He set the path for future artists to justify their different techniques and ideas in the arts.
Ruben Cimental
Here is the YouTube link to watch BBC Modern Masters four-part series: It's worth your time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtEdmPGLZnM&feature=related
3 comments:
Ruben,
You stated, "These objects and people I just mentioned aren't hidden in your subconscious mind."
Why couldn't these objects become part of a person's subconscious? Dreams, etc.
Hi John,
Good to hear from you.
I stand corrected. You're right these objects could be part of anyone's subconscious dreams.
Here is what I was trying to convey. In Dali's case, I think his use of putting what resembled his wife Gala into his surrealism paintings wasn't totally in his subconscious mind, although she could of signified whatever Dali wanted her to mean he still started with his control of his conscious. I think his use of the rocks off the coast of Cadaques, Spain is interesting. When he painted "The Great Mastubator" I'm sure his subconscious mind was bringing out all sorts of past suppressed memmories, but he still painted it around an actual rock he saw off the coast of Cadaques, Spain.
When I was younger I always used to dream of the KKK coming after me. In my dream I would be seeing for example a weird huge ladder and doing all kinds of things I couldn't do when I was awake. One thing for sure the KKK really existed all the other things, well are open to my interpretation.
I think Dali was a master in merging the subconscious mind with conscious control.
Ruben
I think when you stated that Dali brought surrealism into everything he did, including the commercial, (which can sometimes be so script and mundane) that goes to show that no one can separate themselves from their biases or beliefs or whatever, because those things make up who we are. And when we bring in our diversity we make the world that much more artistic. (DeAnna Donante
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