Salvador Dali...?

Question

Do you think that Dali had a natural insanity or was he just a very good "salesman"?
And which of his paintings do you like, or love, or hate, and why?
Me, I love his paintings.
I love the intensity of the colours and the "reality" of the shapes and themes.
My favourite is "the anthropomorphic cabinet".(not so popular)
It makes me feel fear and care at the same time.

Answer 1

Salvador Dali might have been a good salesman, but he was a very intelligent person. He was never insane; the only absurd being is the one who refuses change. Surrealism was an anti-war movement, and theirfore Dali was painting for a good cause.

My favorite painting of his is "The Persistence of Memory", and my second favorite is "Swans Reflecting as Elephants". Both include wonderful nonsense combinations of subject matter and introduce it in a very appealing composition.

Answer 2

I was lucky enough to go to the Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Fl. one time. That was delightfull. I stood around with my mouth open all day. Some of the paintings were Huge, and so much more detailed than the prints you see in the books. It was a very good tour, and they discussed the significance of his life, and where his head was at for most of the paintings. Something I will never forget. He may have been slightly insane, Most talented people are at least a little strange. Do you happen to be a taurus? He was. (as am I) I think these paintings/halucinations
may be a little more at home in the mind of a taurus.

Answer 3

Salvador Dali was indeed a very talented artist. He was not insane, just misunderstood. He said "the difference between me and a mad man is, I am not mad."

He was a great sales-man in that he had complete and utter belief in what he did, how he did it and what/who he did it for. His conviction and self-belief was what forced other people to recognize the work he did.

Maybe, if Van Gogh had a little of his self-esteem and didn't suffer from clinical depression, his talents may have been noticed before his premature death.

My favorites are:
- The Great Masturbator
- Palladio's Thalia Corridor
- Palladio's Corridor of Dramatic Surprise
- One Second Before Awakening From a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate
- The Broken Bridge & the Dream
- The Temptation of St. Anthony

Salvador Dali is my most favorite artist.

Answer 4

Some people say that he was insane and some people say he took drugs to achieve some of his ideas. He allegedly said"I don't take drugs. I am drugs,"

I like his stuff from his "blue" period.

Dali was a a good "salesman" and he made a lot of money by using archetypical symbols and dream imagery in his paintings as were other artists of his time.. He was fascinated by Freud and Hitler.

Answer 5

My favourite was the bulls head sculpture made from bicycle handle bars and a seat.

Answer 6

a astonishing painter, surrealist artist that got here from the dadaist stream it is an anti-aesthetic stream, relies upon upon unusual perspectives and emblems to precise real looking yet no longer logical aspects of objectives, one in each and every of his common paintings is "the staying power of memory".

Answer 7

definitely the melting clocks

Answer 8

I too....