Dali paintings--do they mean anything?

[raccoon]

I like to look at them, they're so crazy.

But I wonder if they mean anything....

[MrScorpio]

1. They're extensions of dreamscapes

Plus he was Spanish… Spanish art always had the benefit of being off in another direction entirely.

[tridim]

2. Drugs are good, M'kay.

[JitterbugPerfume]

3. I love Dali~~~

The new Dali museum in Sarasota Fl is just beautiful . You miss a lot by just looking at his paintings. The tour guides are very knowledgable and there is more to see than meets the eye!

[BillStein]

4. I could not sgree more

the detail in the paintings is astonishing- look closely and you may notice a keyhole shaped like a woman's torso, or a columns suggestive of animals- you could stare at some of his works for hours and not see all the subtle details

[OriginalGeek]

9. Thirding the Dali museum

I live in Orlando and have only been once - I need to get there more.

I love the tour guide stories. That's the way to go through a museum - especially the Dali museum.

[cbdo2007]

6. do they have the anti-reflective glass there??

I went to the museum a few years ago in St. Petersburg and was disappointed that they had reflective glass on all the paintings. the lights were so bright and it was so crowded it was VERY difficult to see any details of the paintings.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. yes

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. whoops, I mean St Petersburg

The museum in in St Pete.

[demmiblue]

11. Me, too. This first time I saw this:

I was in awe! A small pic can never do this giant any justice.

[suninvited]

5. proof of future global warming

everything starts melting from the heat.

[grilled onions]

10. In The Imagination Of The Viewer

While many paintings can be pretty or even annoying A Dali work of art can be many things to many people. You could take one of his masterpieces into a high school or college art appreciation class and have them describe what is represented and every one of them will have something different to say. You could have a poster of his on the wall and every day you may see something different. That kind of art talent can never be boring.

[rrneck]

13. Yep

Surrealist art solicits a narrative from the viewer by using symbolically ambiguous subject matter.

[LynneSin]

12. Meaning? That Dali did drugs

that's about what I get

[HopeHoops]

14. Yeah, he was fucking stoned all to Jesus.

[kayakjohnny]

15. You reminded of this cartoon....

[JitterbugPerfume]

17. love it!

[indivisibleman]

16. Dali

Dali was said to work for untold hours seeking to obtain the perfect smoothness of the sky in this paintings.
He painted from dream. I still do not understand his ideas on this though I have studied and tried.
A study of Dada should also shed some light upon his work.
He has many hidden images. There is an invisible bishop in the lower left of his Christopher Columbus painting and I swear his face is somehow described in the overall painting.

[Brickbat]

18. Well, sure.

Sweet lips that spread for shimmering carpets, a seizure of melancholy. Once poured from barrels of physics, never to be found beyond the sorrow of candles. I strike the rock and the heaving fire leaps uncommonly.