Salvador Dali: "Adoro i miei nemici quando sono intelligenti"

"Ho sfondato il muro della spudoratezza con una disciplina da caserma" - confidava Salvador Dalí in una intervista del 1961 alla giornalista e scrittrice italiana Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006), mentre, nelle successive riflessioni tuonava contro gli pseudo moralisti: "Non sono io il pagliaccio ma lo è questa società mostruosamente cinica e così ingenuamente incosciente che gioca a fingere di essere seria per meglio nascondere la propria follia".

Legge di Murphy: "La necessità procura strani compagni di letto"

Della Umanologia | Capitolo Decimo

Prima legge di socio-genetica

• Il celibato non è ereditario.

Principio di Beifeld

• Le probabilità che un giovane maschio incontri una giovane femmina attraente e disponibile aumentano in proporzione geometrica quando è con:

1) la fidanzata,

2) la moglie,

3) un amico più bello e più ricco.

Salvador Dali | Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages, 1939 | Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

Stuart Dunkel, 1952 | Classical whimsey

Born in New Jersey Stuart Dunkel began playing classical music and painting at the age of 5. He went on to study music music at Boston University, Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard School (Doctorate).

He also studied art at the Boston Museum School, Kent State, the Academy of Realist Art, the Seattle Academy of Art and privately with renowned artists.

After a career as a musician playing with top orchestras around the world, Stuart switched to fine art at the age of 42.

Edward Pustovoitov, 1964 | Fantasy painter

Эдуард Пустовойтов was born in Makeyevka, Ukraine.

He gained the Designer’s qualification at Odessa Institute of theatrical and artistic studies.

Irresistible desire of travelling once led Pustovoitov to come to Latvia and to join the Riga nautical college; after graduating he worked as a sailor at Latvian Shipping.

Spanish Art History and Sitemap

Spanish art has been an important contributor to Western art and Spain has produced many famous and influential artists including Velázquez, Goya and Picasso.

Spanish art was particularly influenced by Italy and France during the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, but Spanish art has often had very distinctive characteristics, partly explained by the Moorish heritage in Spain (especially in Andalusia), and through the political and cultural climate in Spain during the Counter-Reformation and the subsequent eclipse of Spanish power under the Bourbon dynasty.

Pablo Picasso - Embrace, 1900

Morten Lasskogen, 1986

Morten Lasskogen è un graphic designer e digital artist di origini Danesi.

Il suo lavoro sfida lo spettatore ad esplorare un luogo interdisciplinare, un luogo che si trova tra il riconosciuto e lo sconosciuto.

Ispirato da luci e ombre, il lavoro di Lasskogen bilancia il minimalismo e il surrealismo e l'estetica futuristica con oggetti dei giorni nostri.

Esplorando le nozioni del presente, futuro e passato, il suo lavoro pone domande sull'esperienza condivisa del nostro ambiente, oggi come in futuro.

Salvador Dali | Drawing

Drawing is perhaps one of the most natural and rudimentary activities we undertake as humans. As soon as we get our hands on something that leaves a mark, we begin to draw.

In art, it is considered a fundamental skill to master. For Salvador Dalí drawing was both a means and an end.

Meaning, a lot of what we have that count as “drawings” from Salvador Dalí are studies for much larger works, they are representations of his thought process, his creativity shifting and growing, and an insight to his unique perspective of the world.

Michelle Torrez, 1956 | Expressionist painter

Known for her color work, Michelle Torrez does expressionistic oil paintings of figures that are intended to communicate the beauty of unlikely emotion, movement and life.

Torrez believes that the greatest influences on her work were the circumstances of her childhood and teenage years:

"My life has influenced me to look deeper to find the beauty and humanity in people and places. Even at an early age, I knew I was an artist".

Alexander Sigov, 1955 | Magic Realism painter

Russian painter🎨 and graphic artist Александр Сигов was born in St. Petersburg.

Graduated from the Art College, a Member of the Artists’ Union of Russia since 1994.

Participant of more than 150 exhibitions. His works are in numerous private collections in Russia and other countries

20th century Art History and Sitemap

Twentieth-century art - and what it became as modern art - began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.

Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

Henri Matisse | Woman on a Terrace, 1907 | Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg

Jaroslaw Jasnikowski, 1976 | Surrealist painter

Jaroslaw Jasnikowski is a Polish surrealist painter🎨 of the young generation.

He lives in Legnica. He graduated from Głogowskie Studium Sztuk Plastycznych where he received a diploma under the supervision of Telemach Pilitsis in September 2001.

His artistic work include three individual exhibitions:

• Dziedzictwo Czwartego Wymiaru - The heritage of the fourth dimension, Legnica 1995;
• Dziecko gwiazd - Stars child, Legnica 2000;
• Zmierzch naszych czasów -The twilight of our times, Legnica 2002

and the range of group exhibitions.

Jaroslaw was also awarded🎨 the prize for the artistic achievements from the President of Legnica.

Johannes Vermeer | Legacy

Originally, Vermeer's (1632-1675) works were largely overlooked by art historians for two centuries after his death. A select number of connoisseurs in the Netherlands did appreciate his work, yet even so, many of his works were attributed to better-known artists such as Metsu or Mieris.

The Delft master's modern rediscovery began about 1860, when German museum director Gustav Waagen saw The Art of Painting in the Czernin gallery in Vienna and recognized the work as a Vermeer, though it was attributed to Pieter de Hooch at that time.

Research by Théophile Thoré-Bürger culminated in the publication of his catalogue raisonné of Vermeer's works in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts in 1866.

Symbolism Art History and Sitemap

Symbolism initially developed as a French literary movement in the 1880s, gaining popular credence with the publication in 1886 of Jean Moréas’ manifesto in Le Figaro.

Reacting against the rationalism and materialism that had come to dominate Western European culture, Moréas proclaimed the validity of pure subjectivity and the expression of an idea over a realistic description of the natural world.

This philosophy, which would incorporate the poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s conviction that reality was best expressed through poetry because it paralleled nature rather than replicating it, became a central tenet of the movement.

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) Love's Messenger, 1885

List of Sculptors | Sitemap

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth.

It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been almost complete freedom of materials and process.

Peter Demetz, 1969 ~ Figurative wood sculptor

Surrealist Artists | History and Sitemap

Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early '20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new mode of expression called automatic writing, or automatism, which sought to release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious.

Officially consecrated in Paris in 1924 with the publication of the Manifesto of Surrealism by the poet and critic André Breton (1896-1966), Surrealism became an international intellectual and political movement.

Breton, a trained psychiatrist, along with French poets Louis Aragon (1897-1982), Paul Éluard (1895-1952) and Philippe Soupault (1897-1990), were influenced by the psychological theories and dream studies of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and the political ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883).

Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures

Impressionist Artists | Sitemap

Claude Monet | Meules, 1891 | Sotheby's

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than (John Singer) Sargent thinks".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

"Ho avuto il solo merito di aver dipinto direttamente di fronte alla natura, cercando di rendere le mie impressioni davanti agli effetti più fuggevoli, e sono desolato di essere stato la causa del nome dato ad un gruppo, la maggior parte del quale non aveva nulla di impressionista".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

Collection of Quotes, Poems and Literature | Sitemap

Vincent Van Gogh

• Faccio sempre ciò che non so fare, per imparare come va fatto.

• Non è tanto il linguaggio del pittore che si deve sentire, quanto quello della natura.

• Ciò che desidero, è che tutto sia circolare e che non ci sia, per così dire, né inizio né fine nella forma, ma che essa dia, invece, l'idea di un insieme armonioso, quello della vita.

• Così il pennello sta alle mie dita come l'archetto al violino e assolutamente per mio piacere.

Salvador Dali | Self-portraits

Salvador Dalí started to paint self-portraits very early on.

In the ones made during adolescence, Dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions, but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them (or to provoke them) and on the public in general.

Like other adolescents, he sought through his appearance an affirmation of his own personality, wearing long hair and sideburns, and dressing extravagantly.

Salvador Dali 1941 Soft self-portrait with grilled Bacon

Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor

This is part 1 of 3-part post on the works of Salvador Dali.

• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor🎨.
• Salvador Dali | Surrealist painter and sculptor | Part. 2🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Self-portraits🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Watercolors🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Drawing🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Quotes / Aforismi🎨;
• Gala, la passione surreale di Salvador Dali🎨;
• Salvador Dali | Zodiac signs🎨.

Andrey Gorenkov / Андрей Горенков, 1969 | Surrealist painter

Russian artist🎨 Andrei Gorenkov was born in the town of Zhigulevsk. Engaged in painting since 1990.

Behind the artist a large number of solo exhibitions in such cities as: Zhigulevsk, Neftegorsk, Tolyatti, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Paris, Hamburg, Moscow.

Creativity of the artist Andrei Gorenkov is often compared with the early works of Salvador Dali🎨.