? "The difference between one person and another is far greater than the difference between two different kinds of animals." Boldly borrow the famous saying of the French writer Montaigne as the beginning of this article. This was quoted by Dali at the beginning of his Diary of a Genius. I think this sentence can explain his unique characteristics. ?
? On May 13, 1904, in Figueres, a small city in northern Catalonia, Spain, the 41-year-old Don Salvador Dali Y. Cusi and his wife presented their case to Judge Miguel. I reported that my son Salvador Dali was born at 8:45 on May 12 and registered his household registration.
Three years before Dali was born, his seven-year-old brother died of meningitis. Dali's birth brought great comfort to his desperate parents. They gave Dali the same name as his brother: Salvador. This means savior or savior in Spanish. And Dali was destined to, as his name implies, save painting in the void of modern art. Dali and his brother look exactly the same, but behave completely differently. Little Dali was different in his childhood. He had an arrogant and rebellious character, was sensitive and difficult to get along with. He often does extraordinary things. When he was five years old, he was playing with a little boy who was younger than him. On a whim, he pushed the boy under the bridge. Then he ran home and said that the boy had fallen under the bridge. When he was six years old, he wanted to be a chef in order to steal food. When he was seven years old, he saw the arrogant and arrogant image of Napoleon on the mate tea bucket of the Matas family in Argentina on the third floor, and he wanted to be Napoleon. He wet the bed until he was eight years old simply because he thought it was fun. When he was sixteen years old, in order to attract other people's attention, he jumped down from the stairs at school. He fell bruised and swollen and felt happy in his heart.
In 1917, Dali began to study painting at the Grabado Municipal School with Professor Runes. During this period, Dali developed the habit of painting with all the passion and concentration in his life. In his adolescence, Dali used fancy clothes to attract others' attention. In October 1921, Dali officially entered the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and embarked on a path that conflicted with etiquette. In his first days in Madrid, Dali enthusiastically lived a diligent and studious life similar to that of an ascetic monk. However, he soon discovered that the traditional teaching of the academy could not teach him what he wanted to learn. He devoted himself to studying and exploring Picasso, Morand I was greatly inspired by the art of Dee, Chirico and others. He began to deliberately isolate himself from the outside world, immersed himself in painting alone in his room, and began his Cubist creation. During his second year in Madrid, Dali once took an art history exam. The reviewing teacher selected the topic of his favorite essay, but he was suddenly filled with an uncontrollable laziness. He stood up without hesitation and said, "Unfortunately, because I am many times smarter than these three teachers, I refuse to take their test. I know this topic too well." The whole classroom was stunned. The final result was that Dali's student career ended.
Dali is a wizard and a ghost. Of course, his character is also very strange. He is maverick and arrogant. But in his personal love life, he loves his wife Gala, who is eleven years older than him, very exclusively. In 1929, Dali's agent Camille agreed that Dali would exhibit all his works in a Paris gallery and receive a commission from the exhibition proceeds, which was naturally a good thing for Dali. Because this not only meant that his paintings changed from pure art to commodities, but also marked his entry into the Paris art world. During the exhibition, Dali met Gala, the wife of French poet Eluard. Gala has a beautiful figure and charming eyes. Just like his childhood fantasy companion - Kalukia. The two fell in love at first sight and hated meeting each other so late. Soon he fell in love. After the exhibition, Dali and Gala both returned to Barcelona. Dali's father believed that his son's desire for a married woman was treason and disgraceful to the family, and categorically rejected them. They had no choice but to buy a small house in Port Lligat, a remote fishing village northeast of Barcelona, ??and continue his painting career here. Gala was a crucial person in Dali's life. Dali's personality was characterized by arrogance and delusion. He had a violent and erratic personality. Gala used her motherly love and mysterious psychological stabilizing effect to create a miracle. It completely reshaped Dali's personality, enabling him to laugh off all ridicule and attacks, and stick to his goals until the end of his artistic life. From the time they met and fell in love in Paris in 1929 until Gala's death in 1982, they remained close to each other and never left each other.
Dali’s talent is not only reflected in painting. He is very familiar with art. In addition to painting, he also frequently gets involved in literature, fashion, film, interior decoration, jewelry design and other fields. Such as "Labyrinth" in 1941 and "Sentimental Dialogue" in 1944. He also regularly requested manuscripts from some fashion magazines. His profound literary skills enabled him to complete his first novel "Hidden Face" in just a few weeks. He uses his imagination and hands to enrich the language of world art. But many people regard him as the craziest, most destructive, and most surreal person.
By 1934, Dali, who was only 30 years old, had become a dazzling star in the European and American painting circles. In December of the same year, he gave a speech at Harvard University, which gave birth to a Dali-like famous saying: The biggest difference between me and a madman is that I have no crazy. In 1935, Dali published an important article - "The Conquest of Irrationality" in Paris and New York, clarifying his thoughts on painting. He declared: In the world of painting, all my ambition is to materialize those irrational illusions with the most clear and determined crazy attitude. Dali continued to use art to practice his surrealist ideas and theories.
Dali never concealed his views and wanted to use genius and hard work to gain honor and stay away from poverty. He once publicly said: "A painter must know how to use a paintbrush to find gold and gems." "If someone comes in and brings a mountain of gold, I will accept it without flinching." He loves vanity and hates being ignored. There is this passage in Dali's conversation: Someone gave me a small bell for Christmas last year. Every time I walked on the streets of New York, I felt that people did not pay enough attention to the sacred Dali, so I would ring the bell. Obviously I can't tolerate anyone not recognizing me. This is Dali, a Surrealist who wonderfully blended genius and madness, reality and illusion.
In my opinion, Dali’s life and art always present two contradictory tendencies. As an art master, Dali's words and deeds were incompatible with those traditional Western artists. He pursues fame and fortune, pays attention to ostentation, likes to grandstand and show off himself. He firmly believes that his thoughts and works are the crystallization of genius and a good way to save modern art from the crisis of decadence, so they deserve people's attention and attention. This is also the reason why he uses all kinds of publicity methods to gain the limelight. In his opinion, no genius in the world can rise to fame without publicity. Propaganda is as old as language. The sophists of ancient Greece have long been able to skillfully use propaganda techniques and exploit people's blind emotional excitement to achieve their goals. But when it comes to artistic creation, he always insists on using the most persistent and rigorous attitude. From the time he began to learn painting, he was diligent in learning, thinking and creating throughout his life. He believes that artists are not spiritual mentors of human beings, but rather introspectors and constant questioners about beliefs in the real world. For the themes he admires and chooses, he goes all out with saint-like piety, using his unique exquisite and delicate techniques combined with precise and thoughtful compositions to extract spectacular pictures that are shocking and have strong visual impact. These fully demonstrate that he is a painter with an extremely serious attitude towards creation.
At the age of 82, Dali once said: "Because I am a genius, I have no right to die. Geniuses will die, but the works of geniuses are immortal." Although he has been funding scientific research on hibernation, But in the end, this technology failed to extend his life. However, in the last moments of his life, Dali did not stop being crazy. He asked Barcelona TV to arrange a complete set of video equipment to broadcast the entire process of his death to the world. On January 23, 1989, Dali followed his beloved Gala away. He carried his principles throughout with absolute bravery. The modern art creation he carried out throughout his life was constantly reborn in the transformation of combining traditional art. As he said: Painters must be "reborn", or else they will die forever. . Change unbelief into belief, and turn "change" into "rebirth." He emphasized that "modern art must once again combine the vitality of past traditional art as a factor in the rebirth of modern art.
Dali is one of the most controversial artists in history and the greatest of the twentieth century. He is one of the most famous artists in the world. He has a unique expressive power and an unbridled imagination. He combines painting with the subconscious. He named his unique creative method "Paranoia Criticism". He is associated with true paranoia. The difference between psychotics is that the former uses active and conscious fantasies to create an irrational fantasy world that is very similar to objective reality. Dali used this imagination process to systematize complex and chaotic illusions while creating A "double influence" with multiple meanings. His life is changeable and he pursues novelty, but he is a dedicated person in love. He is contradictory and tolerant, but he is more. He is a madman who makes people obsessed.