Salvador Dalì

The Profile

Spanish Surrealist artist famed for technical precision and dreamlike imagery. Best known for The Persistence of Memory (1931) and collaborations in film such as Un Chien Andalou (1929).

Born in Figueres, Catalonia, in 1904 and died in 1989; a leading Surrealist who formulated the paranoiac-critical method and drew on Freudian psychoanalysis.

Three enthusiastic reviews dig into Dalí’s Surrealism: Freud-infused symbolism, melting clocks and mirror tricks. The Burning Giraffe is read as an ominous, psychoanalytic tableau, while The Persistence of Memory gets praised for color and dream logic. Another review riffs on Dalí painting Gala via mirrors, celebrating process and self-representation.