surrealism

Salvador Dalí

he is best known for his bizarre and striking images in his surrealist art work. he attributed his love for everything that is glided and excessive. he was highly imaginative and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behaviour. his eccentric manner and attention grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his art work to the dismay of those who held his woe in high esteem. and the irritation of his critics.

freudin theory underpins his attempts of forging a formal and visual language capable of rendering his dreams and hallucinations. these account for some of the iconic and now ubiquitous images through which he achieved fame during his life time.  obsessive themes of eroticism, death, and decay permeate his work reflecting his familiarity with and synthesis of the psychoanalytical theories of his time. drawing on blatantly autobiographical material and childhood memories. his work is rife with often ready-interpeted symbolism, ranging from fetishes and animal imagery to religious symbols. he subscribed to surrealist Andre Bretons theory of automatism, but ultimately opted for a method of tapping the unconscious that he termed critical paranoia, a state in which one could cultivate delusion while maintaining one's sanity. paradoxically defined as a form of irrational knowledge, the paranoiac- critical method was applied by his contemporaries, mostly surrealists, to varied media, ranging from cinema to poetry to fashion.

i like his idea of imagination quite a lot of his work i think comes across as though it should be from a magical place which is the sort of effect i want to gain in my exhibition.