I have always been inspired by Salvador Dali. He's definitely in my top five all time favorite artists and I find his biography and personal character to be very intriguing. Known mostly for his paintings, he was also involved in the planning, designing and creation of stage sets, jewelry, photography, lithography (+other printmaking techniques), and, obviously, the art of the mustaching, hehe. I have been fortunate enough to travel around the world to many museums (my mom is a flight attendant for Delta) so I have actually had the opportunity to see much of his work firsthand and, as many of you probably already know, his paintings are enormous with detail work that creates a visual window into his surreal, disturbing world. It was really hard to walk away from gazing into his canvas work. Anyway, here are a few of his artworks which I photographed in Manhattan earlier this year (European museums don't seem to be quite as keen on allowing photographs to be taken)
Amazing sketch-work
Layers of paneled glass, each painted to create a cohesive scene when you look through all of them lined up. The installation was quite small (maybe 1 ft. x 1.5 ft.) and was built into the wall at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) I believe...
An amazing sur-REALIST!
I found this one to be one of the more interesting Dali paintings because it seems so different than most of his work. A Half-tone pattern of intermingling circles create 2 things at once: When you stand really close, all you see is
Madonna and Child; When you step back to a distance,
an enormous ear appears. The
floating envelopes cast a shadow upon the underlying painting and appear so realistic that you feel you can reach out and grab them...Unreal
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