“Surrealism is myself”

The Great Masturbator, 1929

Sleep, 1937

Imagination running free, that’s Dalí…from a melting Camembert he made “The Persistence of Memory”, alluding to Freudian psychological concepts about unconsciousness, as well as many other of his flabbergasting works. Another theme often approached was sex, this big taboo of human race.

He worked with Luiz Buñuel for “Un chien Andalou” and “L’Age d’Or” and the great A. Hitchcock in “Spellbound”, and aside from cinema he did jewellery design, worked with the theatre, made book illustrations and sculpture.

I won’t say much about his personality, apart from brilliant, flamboyant and ego-maniac, I reckon that to be a genius one must also be not quite all there…;D

The fact is that after his classic masterpieces from the 30’s, he chose a different direction and opted for a more religious environment, which gave him little space for imagination…even though, we can’t complain!

One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, 1944