Dali or Escher: Which artist do you prefer?

Question

Why?

Answer 1

Hmmm, tough one. I think Escher, I love the dynamics of his art. You might like Alex Grey too. Check out his website at www.alexgrey.com. A bit morbid like Dali, but also very precise like Escher.

Answer 2

Escher, although I like them both. I don't know that it is fair to compare the two however. They work in different ways, different mediums, and with different purposes. Escher, I believe is the better craftsman. He knows how to manipulate you visually. That was his purpose, to toy with the traditional picture plane and see how far he could push that dynamic. Dali, however used the picture plane as a tool to get across ideas. He was about the mind and how we relate to the world, the painting was just the vehicle he used. Freud used words, Dali used a brush. They are both intriguing people, but I fancy Escher.

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Answer 3

Escher - makes the "art" happen in your head like the old 60's Op Art only Escher is charming to look at not obnoxious and painful. Dali was a "norm alterer" but it was more one dimensional visually that Escher.

Answer 4

Neither. Everyone talks about these two as if they were geniuses, and perhaps Escher was a master of composition. But neither of their work has any soul. Escher's drawings are too busy; their only purpose is to dazzle us with the parlor trick of turning birds into fish, or confusing our sense of perspective. Escher's work belongs in optical illusion books, not museums. As for Dali, his work is just ugly ugly ugly. His melting timepieces and so forth induce this viewer to nausea. Dali was too busy waxing his mustache and painting bizarre images to really pursue artistic excellence. Dali's art served merely as inane self-promotion, a way to sell himself to half-educated bourgeoisie who wanted to feel different from those around them. Underneath, it has no substance at all.

Answer 5

Escher.

Like my favorite artist, Magritte, he takes a representational scene and makes you (as the audience of the work) have to become more engaged in its interpretation. I grant that many of his best-known pieces are merely "tricks," but I find them more engaging. I actually admire most his early, pre-mathematical work.

One of the problems I have with Dali, although I admire his work, is that his mode of surrealism is often too personal for me to feel I have entered his work entirely. On the basis of an individual work, however, I will readily admit I like his "Metamorphosis of Narcissus" more than any work of Escher, most of which I could not name.

Answer 6

Definitely Dali

I was in my late teens when I actually met Salvador Dali at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (circa 1979). He had an exhibit there and I remember him as being this insanely wild eyed lunatic when I first met him. Little did I realize that he was the artist that I had long admired since early childhood.

Actually I thought he was kinda scary, but I eventually managed to work up enough courage to have a picture of us taken together. I still have it in my photo album.

Answer 7

anyone can be a dali. escher actually had to think of what he made.

Answer 8

Dali. He was more of an artist than a puzzle maker.

Answer 9

Escher. He plays with your eyes more.

Dali just screws with your mind

Answer 10

Dali!