The Liquid Illusions of Salvador Dali
Of all the artists from the twentieth century, one pushed me to dream beyond the limits of my own imagination. Salvador Dali - the madman, who revolutionized the art scene and shook the rational sensibility, introduced me to a new way of perceiving reality. The “irrational knowledge”, as defined by him, is the ability to view different images within the same object, the way our mind builds castles in the sky while gazing at the clouds above. The art of Salvador Dali is an incarnation of this “delirium of interpretation”.
Devoured by his own imagination and the pulsating sexual desires for women, Dali shaped reality into dreamlike illustrations. Melting clocks, mythical creatures, chess boards, pianos, nude female bodies, butterflies, fountains, dark knights, oceans and deserts, eyes, bridges and towers, biblical characters and elephants… He painted in details all the things he envisioned when in paranoid state. Hallucinations without the use of drugs. Superb!
The representations of his reality that I am most fond of are presented below:
“Persistence of Memory” and “Rock and Roll”
“Fertility”, “Ants” and “Signal of Anguish”
“Masochistic Instrument”, “Soft Construction with Cooked Beans (Premonition of Civil War)” and “Woman Undressing”
