Salvador Dali Self Portrait Paintings

The great masturbator 1929.

Salvador dali self portrait paintings.

As a nineteen year old dali was wowed by the cubism works of picasso and braque. The artist continued to be prolific in the late stages of his career he worked on a variety of projects while continuing to produce paintings sculptures and objects. Self portrait figueres was created in 1921 by salvador dali in post impressionism style. Dalí lorca y buñuel en la residencia de estudiantes fundació caixa de catalunya publicaciones de la residencia de estudiantes barcelona madrid 2007 p.

It renders the subject of vermeer s self portrait in the art of painting through the lense of dali s surrealistic eye. In 1942 he published his most intriguing book the autobiography the secret life of salvador dali. In cubist self portrait 1923 dalí places his head in the center of the composition easily recognizable among the mass of cross hatching abstract lines that make up the rest of his body. Dalí and gala returned to spain in 1948.

In the ones made during adolescence dalí represents himself with a distant attitude towards his companions but at the same time wishing to make an impact on them or to provoke them and on the public in general. A spectre full of irony where an amorphous soft face appears supported by crutches which dalí considered his self portrait with a pedestal that bears the inscription of the title of the work and above a slice of fried bacon a symbol of organic matter and of the everyday nature of his breakfasts in new york s saint regis hotel. This small scaled painting has a rather long original title and it is the embodiment of dali s admiration for the great flemish 17th century master johannes vermeer. Salvador dali centennial retrospective ueno royal museum ueno 2006 p 11 p.