| In cities dotting Spain today commemorations are being made to the 100th anniversary of the birth of surrealistic painter Salvador Dali. For example, in Dali's birthplace of Figueres, which is near Barcelona, there will be a concert. A giant size postage stamp has been designed to honor Dali. The town's bakeries are serving what was the famous artist's favorite food -- bread with sugar and wine. Dali died in 1989. He is regarded as one of the most popular of all artists in history. Dozens of Dali exhibits kicked off on May 11th, his birthday. In addition, there will be a number of conferences and theater shows dedicated to Dali.
Some of the most famous Dali paintings are:
"The educated pleasures" (1929)
Interestingly this opens the obsessions and childhood’s fears of Salvador. It also uses the images borrowed from "the Portrait of Paul Éluard" (1929), "Riddles of Desire: My mother, My mother, My mother " (1929) and some others.
"Great masturbator" (1929)
Strongly favored by researchers, the picture is similar to "The Educated Pleasures" is in the field of research of the artist's personality.
"The Persistence of Memory" (1931)
This work of Salvador is, perhaps most known and discussed among art circles of Dali. As well as many other things, he uses ideas from previous works. For instance, it is a self-portrait and ants, soft hours and the coast of Kadakesa, the native land of Salvador.
"Riddle of Wilhelm Tell" (1933)
One of the frank mockeries of Dali over Andre Breton's communist love and leftist ideas. The protagonist, according to Dali himself, is Lenin in a cap with a huge peak. In "the Diary of the genius" Salvador writes, that the baby is himself shouting "He wants me to eat!" Here there are also crutches - an indispensable attribute of the creativity of Dali, who had kept relevance throughout all the life of the artist. The artist props up these two crutches at a peak and one of the thighs of the leader. It is not a unique known work on the given theme. In 1931 Dali has written "Partial hallucination, Lenin's six phenomena on a grand piano".
"Hitler's riddle" (1937)
Dali himself had responded to Hitler differently. He wrote that he was drawn by the soft, chubby back of the Fuhrer. His mania did not cause special delights among the surrealists who were cherishing sympathy for the left. On the other hand, Salvador spoke subsequently about Hitler about the finished masochist who had begun war with only one purpose - to lose. According to the artist, somehow in the autograph of Hitler he had drawn a cross - in full contrast to a broken fascist swastika.
"Lobster Telephone" (1936)
The so-called surrealistic subject - the subject who had lost the essence and traditional function. It had been urged to cause a resonance and new associations more often. Dali and Jacometti were the first who created that Salvador himself named "subjects with symbolical function".
"The Face of Mae West" (used as a surrealistic room) (1934-1935)
Work had been done both on a paper and in the form of a real room with furniture in the form of lips-sofas and other.
"Metamorphoses of a narcissus" (1936-1937)
Or "Narcissus Transformation". A deep psychological work, subsequently it was used as a cover for one of the disks of Pink Floyd.
"Paranoiac transformations of person Gala" (1932)
As though a picture-instruction of a paranoid - critical method of Dali.
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