Salvador Dali, born May 11,1904 in Figueras, Spain, was a very influential Surrealist painter and printmaker. He was well known for his exploration s of subconscious imagery. This of course meant that he had to use mind-altering drugs such as LSD or Opium.
             He was an art student in Madrid and Barcelona. He learned a great amount of painting styles, which he expressed all throughout his carrier.
             He did not encounter his psychedelic style of painting until the late 1920's when he discovered Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery. He then came into contact with the Paris Surrealist, a group of artists and writers who wanted only to show the subconscious aspects of their lives.
             >From 1929 to 1937 he produced some of the best-known surrealist paintings. These were bizarre and irrational paintings of objects as well as landscapes. The almost always showed a picture of something drooping, such as his 1931 painting "The Persistence of Memory", in which limp, melting watches rest on a calm landscape. With its sharp, choppy, curved lines help bring the painting to a semi state of reality. The lines give interpretation to the many shapes in the painting. The droopy clocks hang over rectangular box's, which are in the middle of no were. The smooth textures almost makes this look life like, also the dark colors at the bottom of the painting that blend together with the lightness at the top. Dali chose his colors wisely by using a variation between oranges, yellows, blues and greens.
             This painting will always be on of the most famous of all times.
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