Elefante

Surrealists like to define the style as a “psychic automatism,” in which the unconscious dominates the artwork without being influenced by clichés or inhibitory breaks. Although Salvador Dali’s painting takes inspiration from numerous art movements such as Dadaism or Cubism, his painting style remains linked for a long time to that of Surrealism. His method corresponds to what is called “paranoid-critical,” which he invented in the early 1930s. This method consists of the transposition of images or optical illusions, the result of his unconscious, into his pictorial works. In addition to Spanish museums, numerous other institutions dedicate a museum to the painter, such as the Dali Museum in Berlin or the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, which houses some 1,500 works by the artist. Other permanent collections exhibiting works by the master are the Dali Paris in Paris or the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Fundación March in Palma de Mallorca, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Other works of his, not in permanent collections in his name, are housed in the world’s most important museums such as MoMa which houses The Persistence of Memory, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tate Gallery or the Museum Folkwang in Essen