Salvador Dhali

   Salvador Dhali

Salvador Dhali was born in 1904 he was Spanish surrealist painter. His first major piece that was well known was "The persistence of memory" which is still to this day referred to in pop art culture.

The persistence of Memory 1931

Salvador's work has touched on religion, he painted a painting called
"Christ of St John of the Cross"
He had a powerful cosmic dream, which represented the nucleus of an atom, it then took a metaphysical sense and it was considered to him as the union of everything, which then transcended into the image of Christ on the cross. It was very specific in how he was to be hanging on the cross, so much so he had has friend suspended from cables so he could see how the body would hang for his painting.


Salvador' St John of the cross

St john the cross

Salvador is seemingly influenced by other artists, on in particular was St John of the cross. He took inspiration to create his painting on the left from the one on the right

The composition of the image had been based on a triangle and a circle, his arm forming the triangle and his head the circle, its seen as the trinity and the circle represents unity.

This painting is another surreal piece from Salvador he has used oil paints which he uses a lot, I think this gives his images a real life finish, the images seem to move and the dimensions draw you in, this image was 80.7in x 45.67. All the colours used are very natural and I think this was an important factor the dream he had was so specific I felt he took it on board as his duty to recreate the
dream as accurately as possible.


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