The architect of dreams: Dali

Modern art as we see it, has not come up all of a sudden. Everything around us, the clothes we wear, the books we read, the food we eat, the buildings we live in, the cars we drive, even the way we think is a consequence of the influences from our past. Let us take a stroll to find out who actually was Dali and how he revolutionized the way we think!

Salvador Dali : 

Salvador Dali was an artist in true sense who excelled in almost each and every aspect of modern art, be it paintings, be it fashion, be it sculpture, be it cinemas or television. He had a very different way of seeing things, right from his childhood. As a child, Dali used to go for boat-trips around the coastline of Cadaques. There looking at the extraordinary rock formations he used to make-up surreal images in his mind and paint them. That was the beginning. Years later he came up with this!

This was one of his most iconic paintings. It revolutionized the thinking completely, back then in 1920s when art was either supposed to look good, simple and attractive or very complex such as large canvases with colours spread all over in artistic fashion. But this was completely insane, this was like a dream. Stopwatches melting, who could even think of that!

But the historic moment was when Dali moved to the theatre! When he painted he could just paint a frame, which could just give the essence of what the dream was like but now he could tell you the story, you could actually see what the dream was really like! And that is how he became a renowned architect of dreams. Even famous directors like Alfred Hitchcock and businessmen like Walt Disney were exhilarated by the display of his art. Both of them even hired Dali to design dream sequences in their movies :
1. Walt Disney's & Salvador Dali - Destino 2003
2. Hitchcock - Spellbound dream sequence

 What initially appeared creepy to the world was now a sensation, a fashion, a passion. Dali opened the gates for a completely new generation of artists. Writers were now free to write whatever they wanted to, painters painted whatever they dreamt about, the theatres and films flourished like never before! Experimentations reached an all time high and so did (un)Expectations! Dali was the creator of all the fashion shows which we have today. His work motivated the designers to include surrealistic elements in their creations which has continued to amaze us even today!

Not just paintings, not just jewellery, not just museums, not just theatres or films, Dali was everywhere. His creations were now in use as everyday items- as toys, as clothes, on walls as graffiti, as food-items. He made the world live his dreams and the world continues to do so even after him!