It's a question I have to answer for my college-level Humanities class. I can't seem to find a direct answer anywhere.
2007-09-15 15:32:38 · 6 answers · asked by Shawn 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Because when you are teaching art history it's impossible to cover all the movements and teach all the artists that participated in each one in a single semester unless you are doing an in-depth course on surrealism specifically. Every school of art usually has a set of "founding fathers" that were credited as being the first to work primarily or soley within that set of principals.
Dali is the poster boy for surrealism the same way that Monet is the poster boy for impressionism, Piccaso represents cubism, Warhol for popart, or Seurat is the first person when you think of pointilism.
2007-09-15 15:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by pspoptart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He became famous because he stuck his nose in many popular projects. Dali also made forays into film, most notably in Un Chien Andalou, a short surrealist film made with Luis Bunuel which famously features the image of an eyeball being cut open by a straight razor. (The effect was mimicked using clever editing and a cow's eye.) He even did a famous scene for Hitchcock’s film, Spellbound. Less memorably, Dali contributed a dream sequence to the 1950 romantic comedy "Father of the Bride."
He stays famous because his art is very good and stands the tests of time.
2007-09-15 18:44:20 · answer #2 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the respond could be obvious from viewing his surrealist paintings. i be attentive to that he used watches in a number of his paintings. I say do a picture seek on a usual seek engine for his surrealist works. look in any respect of them, and be certain the respond. i've got not seen too lots Dali, so i'm uncertain of my watches/time answer.
2016-11-14 13:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by kowalczyk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because his paintings make people think. Then people will have the need to talk with others about how they think about Dali and his works. Decades later now and his paintings still make us think. That is the reason.
2007-09-18 19:00:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, Dali was incredibly talented at making fantasy "real". He took objects and distorted them, used the optical illusion, and stretched perspective. But his skill at painting all these unrealistic images realistically, is so amazing.
2007-09-15 18:52:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
prpoptart is corrct. Also, Dali was an incredible self-promoter.
2007-09-15 17:12:48 · answer #6 · answered by sweetmommy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋