why is dali so much appreciated (too much)?

Question

to me his paintings look like cleverly photoshopped images based on redundant ideas by freud. i know photoshop hadn't been invented back then and freud was probably still popular. but for me it lacks psychological or emotional depth to just paint some dreamscapes
to me it looks at best like a good comic book drawing or something

tell me why i should appriate him more

Answer 1

No one had every done psychological dreamscapes back then, he was one of the first. Yes, Freud was still popular, but it wasn't "redundant" back then, you must think of paintings and artists in reference to their own timeperiod before you can judge them in the world today. Honestly, if you think it lacks psychological or emotional depth then you should go to your local library or bookstore and pick up a book on the man, he was varying on crazy. His phallic forms where often to represent his conflicting physical and emotional feelings of the people in his life. His symnolism in immense, too much to talk about here. But often he would use the lion head as a representative of himself, he was terrified of ants and they often gave the form of pubic hair, grasshoppers were likewise a bad symbol, his wife was also often in his pieces with what seemed like conflicting feelings of love. You must realize as well that he lived and was influenced primarily by the landscape of his homeland in Spain, so to be loved all around the world is a feat in itself. Have you seen any of his films? They're excellent-go rent one, I recommend "Un chien Andalou". COMIC BOOKS?! Clearly you are no comic book fan because his works do not coincide at all with the illustrative wonderworld of comics, they're hardly that based in reality.

Please just do some more research on his life and works, if you don't at least appreciate him then it's because you haven't done this yet.

Answer 2

his paintings are very fun to look at. in many of his paintings, if you look at it from one angle and move and look at it again from another angle you will see two completely different pictures. that takes a lot of skill and know-how of how the eye percieves a picture.

Answer 3

For his method of adoption in painitng