53-03 Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the most eccentric and renowned artists of the 20th century, famed for his surrealist works. He had a flamboyant personality, and theatrical self-promotion. In this talk I focus on his painting rather than his idiosyncratic life.
He was a child prodigy who went to art school but decided no one there was good enough to educate him so he left. Initially he was influenced by Cubism but soon developed a surreal style in which his paintings were populated by his fears and phobias symbolised by creatures ranging from spindly legged elephants to ants.
In later life he was influenced by Catholicism and atomic theory and sought to unify religion, art and science in his symbolic dream world.
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