Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that\'s always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head.
And the fantastic phenomenon that was Salvador Dali is grasped entire and placed in its various contexts..
His provocative ideas are all here, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.
This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full colour and in his own words.
Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination, and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.
He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting.
Painter, sculptor, writer, and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century\'s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went.
Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that\'s always running." Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head