Salvador Dalí

Dalí pairs dreamlike, impossible imagery with hyper-realistic technique — melting clocks, barren Spanish plains, long shadows, bizarre juxtapositions. The craft is academic; the content is hallucinatory.

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was a painter from Spain, associated with Surrealism.

A 20th-century movement of dream logic and the unconscious — impossible, uncanny imagery rendered vividly. Surrealism →