A siesta, to him, has always opened the doors of a pre-sleep period, the instant when one forgets To dream is easy for him because of his Mediterranean heritage. The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role inĭali's paintings. This painting was one of the first Dali executed using his 'paranoid-critical' approach in which he depicts his own psychological conflicts and phobias.ĭali had studied psychoanalysis and the works of Sigmund Freud before joining the Surrealists. In The Persistence of Memory, one of his earlier Surrealist works, Dali was influenced by Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, which he combined with a Catalan background, a feature of much of The Swallow's Tail - Series of Catastrophes, 1983īefore joining the Surrealist group formally in 1929, Salvador Dali imbued his work with a sense of the fantastic and the extraordinary, personified in the work of the Old Masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and in his own timeīy Giorgio de Chirico.Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea, 1976.
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