ARTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Salvador Dalí, Surrealism, Joan Miró
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Ties into tapping into the dream state. All three artists below are influenced by the subconscious. His brand of surrealism is realism you recognize things in his work. He takes a renaissance approach in terms of perspective. The melting watches show how time can be fluid, as in a dream: the threatening association is societies" dependence upon clocks. The world runs by the clock scheduling events is essential for life to function normally. If clocks melt, time becomes meaningless, and there is no way to control activities, leading to chaos. Melting watches surrounded by swarming ants that hint at decay, an organic process in which dali held an unshakeable fascination. Dali also dabbled in visual illusions, not just surrealistic. The face is shown firsthand: however, when you look closer, you can see that the face and fruit is nothing more than an illusion made up of other elements in the painting, which is actually a beach.