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How Did Salvador Dali Influence Hitler

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Salvador Dalí, was born in 1904, during his life time, he used his imagination to painting images as a kind of “the shape of dreams”. When he was began painting, his images absord different kinds of painting style, and it seems around the early 1920s, his creation finally became Surrealism. The basement of his style, always be recognised as the effections of Freud’s theories, the connection between sexualiy and subconsciousness. Based on this kind of undestanding, his painting style became “leading by illustion”, and the result of this style is the distorrtion seeting and the symbolism figures and objects. Although his strange style sometimes are recgnized as a “paranoia”, he still acieved quite high level achievement during his life …show more content…

The reapeat of one figures can made a strong impack for vison. Dali painted Hitler’s face in this way during that certain time period, can clearly showed his attitudes against the war.
The background of this painting is combined with rock and desert, these kind of enviroment setting immediately show out the result that wars will bring to people: nothing left, except death and desolation.
Compare with “The Face of War”, Dali, Premonition of the Civil War, c.1936(Walter Conrad Arensberg), also is a painting related to war topics. In 1936, and in this year, the civil war of Spain burst out. This civil war last into 1939, finally the rebellious armys won this war under the help of German and Italian armys belonged to fascist, and this civil war also recognized as an important part during the WWII.
Back to this painting, the major part of this painting is a femare figure teared in to two parts and fight with each other. The above part of this figure use its leg treads on de lower part, and the lower part use its hand pinching on the higher part’s breast. The facial expression of the head on the higher part seems quite …show more content…

Although Dali done numbersw of sculptures after war time, this essay will discuss two of them. The first one is Dali, Space Venus, c.1977-1984. This sculpture is done by marble, the topic of this sculpture focus on a classical figure, Venus, the god of beauty. The way that Dali used to create Venus is total diferent from Renaissance period and realism. In this sculpture, audience can see some ideas that used by other artist, such as Alexandros of Antioch, Venus deMilo,b.c.130-100(Louvre Museum,Paris) and Brancusi, Newborn .
The major figure of this sculpture is the body without arms, legs and hand of a femal figure, and the remain of the body turns into two parts in a malposed posotion.
Besides of the main figures, this sculpture aloso incudede ants, eggs and a melty clocks. Associate with the “soft” of Venus, both ants and eggs shows a kind of cituation as “hard of outside and soft is

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