Dali Author:Victoria Charles A pioneer of Surrealist art, and in his own mind, the only member of the movement, Dali also wrote scripts and a novel, designed furniture and clothing, worked with Hitchcock on the famous Spellbound dream sequence, and even choreographed a ballet. Born in Spain in 1904, he had his first exhibition at 14 and went on to become one of the most dyn... more »amic and eccentric artists of his time. Despite his obvious genius and talent for self-promotion, he remains a controversial figure to many, and even inspired the Surrealists to expel him from their group.
Dali's melting watches and barren landscapes have become universally recognized symbols of his provocative, dreamlike style and the critical paranoiac method he established. This collection of more than 60 of his most influential paintings -- from The Persistence of Memory to The Temptation of Saint Anthony -- accompanied by a biography of his unusual life, illuminates the process through which Dali captured an ineffable sense of the old order giving way to a new one, a sense of change without a clear sense of what was to come, the persistence of faith and love and the equally persistent signs of loss and decay.« less