Please discuss this artist.

I am a great fan of his.

What do you think of his paintings/Illusions ?

dalí is actualy one of my few favorite artists out there. his paintings just amaze me a lot for their uniqueness and rareness. i don't know too much about art 'theory' and stuff like that, but i like the fact that within just one painting you can see various elements. for example the crucifixions he showed in several of his paintings and also up to two crucifixions on one painting, i saw on a tv show about him that they discussed if it was like a critic towards religon, or just his way of expressing his belifs, etc...
but anyway, i like them a lot, i wish i knew a bit more about art 'casue his aintings are really cool

I have a copy of his elephant creatures on my wall ..
its incredible to look at in somewhat altered state

last week I have bought a book about the life of Dali
he was an interesting fellow

now that you speak about his life, i heard once that he had some disease or misformation or something, and that because of this his dick was very small so he let his wife sleep with other guys and stuff. that a rumour or was it really true?

Written by tulkas on 20.03.2008 at 08:21

now that you speak about his life, i heard once that he had some disease or misformation or something, and that because of this his dick was very small so he let his wife sleep with other guys and stuff. that a rumour or was it really true?

Hahaha!

It'd be pretty funny if it was true.Maybe one of his paintings is called ' Sexual Frustration' hah!

why does he have such an annoying obsession with his moustache? half of the works i've seen by him involve huge pointy moustaches...

Written by Valentin B on 20.03.2008 at 13:59

why does he have such an annoying obsession with his moustache? half of the works i've seen by him involve huge pointy moustaches...

Moustache's are a way of life man! Let Dali have his small penis'd fun!

Dalí's one of my top favourite artists. I have copies of these two paintings in my room for about 13 years, when I visited his museum in St. Petersburg (Florida) and I never get tired of looking at them.




His mind has always intrigued me, and his technical skills always amazed me.

@Cursed: worse than his obsession with his moustache is his obsession wih ants. Ever noticed there are always some ants around in his paintings? Well, in his mind they're a sexual reference... somehow.

Written by owl on 28.03.2008 at 00:40

@Cursed: worse than his obsession with his moustache is his obsession wih ants. Ever noticed there are always some ants around in his paintings? Well, in his mind they're a sexual reference... somehow.

what about elephants?

Elephants as a sexual reference? Geez, I hope not!

Haha

Dalis paintings are messed up, but i guess all surrealism is. Theres a weird burning giraffe in one of his paintings.

i know a certain fact about Dali he was schizophrenic
the most important work of his in my opinion is the temptation of saint anthony

His probably my favorite Artist ever...
His paintengs are really deep and difficult to understand. That's way I like them so much

Salvador Dali is a G.
ALL of his paintings/illusions are surely drug induce, thereby attracting my attention to it.
definitely is one of my favorite artists regardless of genre.

Written by LeChron James on 22.10.2008 at 06:59

Salvador Dali is a G.
ALL of his paintings/illusions are surely drug induce, thereby attracting my attention to it.
definitely is one of my favorite artists regardless of genre.

i'm imagining him with his silly mustache sipping some absinth, yelling "helluv hammurd!"

Written by Valentin B on 24.10.2008 at 19:02

Written by LeChron James on 22.10.2008 at 06:59

Salvador Dali is a G.
ALL of his paintings/illusions are surely drug induce, thereby attracting my attention to it.
definitely is one of my favorite artists regardless of genre.

i'm imagining him with his silly mustache sipping some absinth, yelling "helluv hammurd!"

my favorite quote of his "i dont take drugs. i AM drugs". and yeah, i can see him gettin hella hammer time with it. all he needed was some everclear and gatorade...

Written by LeChron James on 22.11.2008 at 04:14

Written by Valentin B on 24.10.2008 at 19:02

Written by LeChron James on 22.10.2008 at 06:59

Salvador Dali is a G.
ALL of his paintings/illusions are surely drug induce, thereby attracting my attention to it.
definitely is one of my favorite artists regardless of genre.

i'm imagining him with his silly mustache sipping some absinth, yelling "helluv hammurd!"

my favorite quote of his "i dont take drugs. i AM drugs". and yeah, i can see him gettin hella hammer time with it. all he needed was some everclear and gatorade...

My favorite Dali quote is:
"The difference between the crazy one and me... Is that he doesn't know that he is insane. But I know what I am. "

I love his works..

Written by X-Ray Rod on 23.11.2008 at 14:30

Written by LeChron James on 22.11.2008 at 04:14

Written by Valentin B on 24.10.2008 at 19:02

Written by LeChron James on 22.10.2008 at 06:59

Salvador Dali is a G.
ALL of his paintings/illusions are surely drug induce, thereby attracting my attention to it.
definitely is one of my favorite artists regardless of genre.

i'm imagining him with his silly mustache sipping some absinth, yelling "helluv hammurd!"

my favorite quote of his "i dont take drugs. i AM drugs". and yeah, i can see him gettin hella hammer time with it. all he needed was some everclear and gatorade...

My favorite Dali quote is:
"The difference between the crazy one and me... Is that he doesn't know that he is insane. But I know what I am. "

I love his works..

yeah man his paintings are CRAAAAAZY. he hella painted a mona lisa with his face on it as a self portrait

happy birthday btw, man.

Written by LeChron James on 24.11.2008 at 02:48

yeah man his paintings are CRAAAAAZY. he hella painted a mona lisa with his face on it as a self portrait

happy birthday btw, man.

I didn't know about that painting, gonna see it.

Thanks btw

Oh....
Dali is one of the founders of surrealism school
it was great

Great painter, I'll post a picture of me and a Dali wax sculpture at Madame Tussauds when I get home, this is my grandpa's computer
But I like people like Doré better, if you don't know him: he's (was) a 19th century etcher (a technique where you engrave on a copper plate, after the engraving the plate is laid in acid and after that ink is put on plate to print on a paper, I think ). On his etchings he pictured many satanic... shit. One of his works was used for the cover of Emperor's debut.

I've been ranting about Doré so much I forgot this was a Dalí thread, sorry...

Salvador Dalí was an awesome artist. I learned via wikipedia that one of his earlist paintings was at age six, and it isn't bad for such an age. "Landscape Near Figueras" is what it is called.

Has anyone seen the work he did with Alice Cooper?

My favorite is his "Christ of Saint John of the Cross". An amazing painting. He literally described religion with that masterpiece! Using surrealism as a weapon (his point of view maybe) to what is against the human logic. Cultural

I've been to his museum in Figueres in Spain and was able to see a big part of his work. It was amazing to see all of it, especially because the building and everything inside was his design and his way of representing his art to people. The Cadillac in the entrance was the most memorable thing for me because it actually rains inside of it. All in all, I got the impression he was a very interesting guy with weird ideas and obsessions.

I once read an entire book of interviews with him...i came away thinking he was one of the wisest men who ever lived, not as deranged as may have been commonly thought...but i could never understand his embrace of Catholicism or the monarchy and fascism...

but definitely one of the greatest painters ever...

I don't know whether it's okay or not. (If not, one of moderators can delete my post.)
Just uploaded a slideshow of some Dali's works.
Simply amazing...

http://www.mediafire.com/?49y2qbz8t7n1m4o

Putting some life in this thread again

Yeah, he has to be my favourite as well, love his paintings and wished I had some of it on my walls.