Surrealism and Salvador Dali Surrealism is defined as an art style developed in the 1920's in Europe, characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas. Surrealist paintings often depict unexpected or irrational objects in an atmosphere or fantasy , creating a dreamlike scenario ( www.progressiveart.com 2004). The word Surrealism was created in 1917 by the writer Guillaune Apollinaire. He used it to describe
to be the theme, from the pocket watches detached from their chains melting slowly on rocks and the branches on a tree, to the decay or death implied by the swarming ants on the orange clock. The ants and melting clocks are recognizable images that Dali places in an unfamiliar context and he renders in a different way, “to systematise confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”. The strange formless human figure or face in the centre could be interpreted from what we might
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