what type of materials did salvador dali use throught his career as an artist?

Answer 1

Whatever he could get his hands on....

Answer 2

I found this on the web. Hope it helps.

Salvador Dali
Forgotten Horizon, 1936
© Salvador Dali, Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/
DACS, London 2002
Oil on Wood
222 mm x 267 mm

This is one of a series of beach scenes at Rosas on the Costa Brava which Dalí painted in 1934-6 using traditional materials applied with a very confident hand. A mahogany panel was prepared with an oil based ground and then the background "set" was painted in paint bound with poppy oil. The figures were painted onto the background with a very liquid oil and resin paint which Dali applied with great skill and precision of placement.

Patricia Smithen is Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Paintings at Tate. She has just completed a study of the paintings by Salvador Dali in the Tate Collection and is contributing to a research project on Tate's Surrealist paintings. She is a member of the Modern Paints Research Project carrying out research and treatments on the surface cleaning of acrylic paintings.

Answer 3

He painted in oils. I'm not sure what you mean by "materials." Did you mean "medium?" Melting clocks, butterflies, St. John's Christ on the Cross. Dali was extremely interested in Sigmund Freud's research of dream states, the subconscious, etc. And his work (1904 - 1989) depicted images of surrealism. He used many forms of "materials" as inspiration in his work. But his medium was pigment, oils, and chalk (very rare pieces).

“There is only one difference between a madman and me - The madman thinks he is sane - I know I am mad.”

— Salvador Dali

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

— Salvador Dali

Answer 4

Lots and Lots of Drugs!!!!