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DALÍ - CHRISTOPHER MASTERS TASCHENBUCH

Salvador Dalí (1904-89) was one of the most controversial and paradoxical artists of the
twentieth century. A painter of considerable virtuosity  he used a traditional illusionistic
style to create disturbing images filled with references to violence  death  cannibalism and
bizarre sexual practices  from the extraordinary limp watches in The Persistence of Memory to
the gruesome monster in Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War and the
fetishistic lobster in the famous Lobster Telephone. Born in Figueras  Spain  Dalí was
initially influenced by Impressionism and Cubism  but subsquently became involved with the
Surrealists  the most revolutionary artists of the time. They regarded his paintings as
revealing the normally hidden world of the unconscious. Indeed the Surrealists' leader  André
Breton  remarked: It is perhaps with Dalí that for the first time the windows of the mind are
opened fully wide. However  Breton later expelled him from the group for this right-wing
sympathies and derided his commercial success in the United States  calling him 'Avida
Dollars'. Dalí's response was equally curt: The difference between me and the Surrealists is
that I am a Surrealist. Not restricting his interests to painting  Dalí wrote three
autobiographies  designed sets and costumes for a play by his friend Federico García Lorca and
collaborated with Luis Bunuel in the film Un Chien andalou  a medium which proved particularly
apt for his provocative imagery.

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