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    Salvador Dali was an extraordinary painter who focused on abstract art and helped shape art as we know it today. He had many different works of art. Many of them are not known by a majority of people. one that is considered his most famous is "Persistence of Memory." It is otherwise known as the painting of melting clocks, as many people I have talked to about it do not remember the name of the painting. His artwork may have seemed to be different than most, but that is what made his artwork famous

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    other artists have success in life as Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol, which invented their own unique style of art and they continue beeing famous all around the world. Their life stories were different, but they end up meeting each other. Salvador Dali born in Spain and start their studies at Royal Academy of fine arts of San Fernando, in contrast, Andy Warhol who born in the United States and decides to study commercial art at Cornrgir Mellow University. Both Dali and Warhol was living in New York

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    painting “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali that I could see in one of my textbooks back then when I was in Poland taking a history class. I really enjoyed the painting, even though I did not really know what the meaning of the painting was. Now, I got motivated to write a research paper about the piece of art, and to answer the question what the meaning of “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dali is. The painting was created in 1931. Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist. Surrealism

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    physically explore the Salvador Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg, Florida. I chose this museum because Dali was such a great artist and energized person, I felt that I would be intrigued by his work the most. I was also eager to see more of his paintings that were not showcased in class or in the textbook. As excited as I was to visit the museum, I was quite disappointed. I was expecting color to be in every room, exciting design, and an overall fun feel since that is what I felt Dali would have been like

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    Comparative study The starry night (Van Gogh) The persistence of memory (Dali) Invader (ongoing since 1998) Starry night: The starry night is a painting that was made by Vincent van Gogh. It’s a landscape painting made in June of 1889. It’s an oil painting on a canvas that he painted while in an asylum after he had a breakdown in 1888. He painted the starry night while he inside of the asylum that he voluntarily went to. The starry night is one of many versions of the paintings he made. He made

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    The watches were symbolism of this theory and the passing of time. Dalis idea for this painting came to him in a dream he had about cheese that formed into limp flimsy watches. However, in Dali’s History of Surrealist Painting, he says the watches symbolize impotence and the hands on the watches are the medical-scientific signs for male. Dali frequently used male symbols of impotence. In the painting Secret Life of Salvador Dali, he presents his nervousness about impotence. The painting depicts phallic

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    Salvador Dali was considered one of the most controversial artists to ever live in Spain and the United States. It is easy to understand once you saw his childhood. Dali was raised being told he wasn’t born as a version of himself. Dali found himself getting into trouble not only with his father, but also with the schools that he attended. Getting kicked out of schools for causing trouble. One would have never thought that Dali would have made it as an artist due to his troubled history. As

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    The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida is a unique modern museum. This new building opened in 2011. The original building was established in 1982 (thedali.org). The architect, Yann Weymouth, created a space that is as surreal as Dali’s artwork. Weymouth’s space incorporates visually interesting elements yet it is also hurricane proof structure that protects the priceless artwork it houses (Brown, 2011, p. 16). The building can withstand a category five hurricane and the artwork

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    Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who drew some of the most gorgeous yet obscure paintings in the world today. The nuances of his work express such great ideas that it is believed one could never perfectly analyze one of his works of art. Sticking to this trend, The Face of War is a somewhat ugly landscape painting with a moving meaning behind every stroke. The desert-set painting features a snake inundated, skull-like face which was drawn to personify everything that war is. The subtleties in the

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    Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter born in the early 1900’s in Figueres, Spain. He is best known for his thought provoking images, eccentric behavior and bizarre surrealism, Dali’s art was anything but ordinary. Salvador Dali painted the “Girl with Curls” using oil paint on panel in 1926, three years before he joined the Surrealist movement. His painting is a respectable example of three significant elements that turn this painting into a work of achievement. The first technique he uses accomplishes

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