1. Salvador Dali
Surrealism

2. What is Surrealism? Impossible Dream-like Symbolic Mysterious
Imaginative
Unusual
Playful
Fantastical
Bizarre

3. Surrealism, Dreams, and Sigmund Freud
This art movement began with the idea of psychoanalysis, from the neurologist Sigmund Freud, in the 1920s.
Surrealist artists put things together that do not belong.
To “stimulate the unconscious mind”
Used realistic painting and photography to make impossible scenes feel “real” - like a dream.

4. Salvador Dali and Surrealism
Hyperrealism
Dreamscape
Influenced by science
Theory of Relativity (Einstein)
Is Time fixed?
Melted watches
Symbol for Time
Ants
Symbol for Decay

5. Salvador Dali ( )
Spanish Surrealist painter - made “hand-painted dreams”
Best known for the painting The Persistence of Memory
Features melting watches
Just like Van Gogh, he was named after his older brother, who died before he was born.
His parents told him he was the reincarnation of his dead brother - they looked very similar.
Talented artist from a young age, went to art school.
Eccentric personality - often daydreamed as a student.
Often did not get along with classmates
First public exhibition in age 15.
Expelled from art school, after “declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him.”
Inspired by science, math, and dreams
Became well-known Surrealist painter
Was expelled from the movement after clashing with other members.

6. Dali Museum - Figueres, Spain
Designed by Dali himself.
Located in Dali’s hometown, Figueres.
Dali is buried in the floor of the museum.
The outside of the museum is covered in replicas of the traditional tri-cornered bread made in Figueres.
Everything in the museum was designed and created by Dali.

8. Disney and Dali - Destino
Short film
Tells the love story of Chronos (Greek personification of time, like “Father Time”) and a woman named Dahlia.
Released in 2003
Production actually began in 1945
Originally a collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali
Was scrapped during WWII, due to financial concerns