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Dali Inspired Drawing

FEB 17/The Wanderlust Collective/

Art Class, Artist Spotlight, Drawing, Inspiration

Margie Resto

Wanderlust Collective

History

Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain in 1904. He was a prominent spanish surrealist painter best known for the melting clock. As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona he copied a vast number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical abilities as a painter.

His discovery of Sigmund Freud’s writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery changed everything. To bring up images from his subconscious mind, Dali began to induce hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical”.

Introduction

Today I will give you a brief overview of how I came up with my drawing “Dali Inspired”.

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I can’t tell you how excited and blessed I was to be able to step into Salvador Dali’s home. The Portlligat Museum-House is the house in Port Lligat, Catalonia, Spain, where Salvador Dalí often lived and worked from 1930 to 1982. I got to see how he lived, his studio and what inspired him. So I came home and started drawing. You can see where I got the inspiration from. I hope you like it.

"Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it."

Salvador Dali

Freudian theory underpins Dali’s attempts at making a visual language capable of rendering his dreams and his hallucinations. When you look at his work and inspiration you can see how he achieved tremendous fame during his lifetime and today.

Working on details in the end is like saving that piece of cake for later. You just sit there and enjoy it, loving every bite of it. Cleaning up the edges, adding values, an highlights make it all come together in the end.

"Where Do We Go From Here?"

Take a pad and step outside of your home. View your surroundings and experiment with placing things that speak to you together. Perhaps you had a dream you felt was very symbolic, play with that. Brainstorm on a piece of paper then go to work. What did you come up with? I would love to hear your story, see your artwork. What inspires you and did you create from it? Go ahead and join our Facebook membership page and share. We all need inspiration. Happy Drawing!