Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: person
- Topics: surrealism art consciousness
Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his striking and bizarre imagery, technical skill, and flamboyant persona. His work explored the subconscious mind, dream states, and the nature of reality.
Key Works
- The Persistence of Memory (1931) — melting clocks symbolizing the fluidity of time
- The Elephants (1948) — exploring space, weight, and fragility
- The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain
Ideas
- The paranoiac-critical method — a surrealist technique of self-induced hallucination used to access creative imagery
- Exploration of quantum physics and nuclear mysticism in later works
- Everything you can imagine is real