Salvador Dali

            
             Dreamlike visions, of a "tripped out" mind, created by one of little corruption from society. This was Salvador Dali, he was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist and designer. In the past he experimented with Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting. Dali joined the surrealists in 1929, his outgoing personality made him the most famous surrealists of all time. Dali was born May eleventh, 1904. Dali was named after his older brother. He regularly saw his "own" tombstone and felt he was accompanied by the spirit of his brother who died two years before Dali was born. Salvador Dali was looked at by many as not only a surrealist in art, but a surrealist himself. .
             Throughout his life he "cultivated eccentricity and exhibitionism, claiming that this was the source of his creative energy." (Web Museum) Dali was an extremely versatile artist. Aside from painting he made jewelry, glassware, clothing, tableware. He also directed movies, operas, ballets, and theatrical performances. Dali had quite an appearance different from others, not just physical, but his attitude and mentality was one of a kind. He had a large handlebar mustache, which he said acted as an antennae to cosmic forces. .
             People thought Dali was crazy and completely out of his mind. He used to say, "the difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad." In Dali's early years he lived in a fishing house, and as he learned more about art and how to express it, he covered the walls of his home with his new pieces of art including artifacts, easel and oil paints. .
             As he became more interested in other genres of art, he became curious of the surrealists type of art. The Surrealist style of art means anything that is weird, bizarre, or dreamlike. "The surrealists rejected the logical world of reason and tried to explore the unthinking, or unconscious, part of their minds." They were fascinated by dreams, and many of them painted weird, dreamlike visions.