Term Papers on Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali

From the real to the surreal, Salvador Dali embodied it all.
Once he was satisfied with his abilities to mimic what he
saw in the world, he began to play with objects and space.
He comprehended, perfected and finally transcended
realism and his work became much more than paint on
canvas.

In a forward that transpersonal psychologist Ken Wilber
did for Alex Grey’s book Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary
Art of Alex Grey, he stresses that "all of us possess the eye
of flesh, the eye of mind and the eye of spirit. We can
classify art in terms of which eye it mostly relies on. . . Each
of these eyes sees a different world – the world of material
objects, of mental ideas, of spiritual realities (respectively).
And each eye can paint what it sees. The higher the eye,
the deeper the art." Dali’s work seems to parallel this
theory.

He began as a child genius of art. At the youthful age of 14,
his charcoal drawings patterned techniques that Claude
Monet is so renown for using. Dali was capable of
portraying Monet’s stylistic texture in a texture-less
medium. By the time he reached his twenties, he perfected
this impressionistic style using oil paint on canvas. I believe
this is illustrated in The Three Pines, a painting which was
created when Dali was 15. Vague line definitions and
blending, vivid colors and values are just of few of the
comparisons that could be made between this and Monet’s
Water Lilies, Green Harmony.

As he perfected this style, he became more realistic. A
perfect example is his oil

painting, Basket of Bread in which a simple woven basket
sits on a white table cloth with four slices of bread inside. A
simple black backdrop provides an excellent subdued
contrast to keep

your eye focused on the subject. The entire painting, done
by Dali at age 22, is so realistic that at first glance it seems
like a photograph. You can feel the folds in the cloth as
well as the harsh texture of the basket. The lighting and
shadows are perfect for the object and not at all over
baring. His placement of the object in the lower half of the
painting gives the entire piece a good sense of depth.

From this point, Dali encompassed and transcended
realism into pre-surrealism and finally surrealism. He started
to incorporate ideas into his paintings and move beyond the

material world. This signifies the beginning of the use of the
second eye that Ken Wilber discusses and the continuation
into what I believe to be the third eye. To explain this, here
is another quote from Ken Wilber taken from his discussion
of achieving the highest or deepest degree of art: "The
purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something
you are not yet, but can become." (Ken Wilber; One
Taste, p. 6) In Dali’s painting, My Wife, Nude,
Contemplating her Own Fle...

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