Salvador Dalí Research

Dali was a prominent spanish surrealist artist born in spain 1904. He was best known for his bizarre and often confusing dreamlike paintings. Dalí's expansive artistic portfolio included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and extravagant behaviour. His manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention to him rather than his artwork, to the dismay those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritate his critics.

When he was five, Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, a concept that he came to believe. Images of his long-dead brother would reappear embedded in his later works, including Portrait of My Dead Brother (1963)

Dali's father strongly disapproved of his son's romance with his inspiration and wife Gala. He saw his connection to the Surrealists as a bad influence on his morals. The final straw was when Salvador Dali exhibited his work Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ in paris with a provocative inscription: "Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait."

(information sourced and then edited by me from Wikipedia)

The quote written in his painting stating that he spits on his mothers portrait for fun and the fact he was brash and bold in personality shocked me and made me think about how Dali didn't have many reservations when it came to art. He liked to challenge and push boundaries, in a un-sensitive way. Understanding that Dali was like this in real life has made me want to make our piece of theatre vulgar and more disturbing as if he was their watching or intact creating a piece of theatre himself I'm sure he would want it to be challenging and weird.I believe that we have a responsibility to Dali as an artist NOT to play it safe. 

Galatea of the spheres 1952