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Salvador Dali is a brilliant painter and draftsman. ... Recently, I was able to view Dorothy Spreckles Munn, which was painted by Dali in 1942. Not only is this painting a fantastic example of his mastery, it also represents many of the reoccurring obsessive themes Dali enjoyed using in his pieces: surreal landscapes, bizarre figures, and his wife, Galarina.
Dali’s work is painted in a masterly fashion to show the private world of a genius; a world that, in its myriad details, speaks to all of us. ... In the works of the Surrealist period, Dali treated those elements of disparate appearance with absolute realism, which emphasized the proper character of each one of them, making an exact copy from a document, a photograph, or the actual object, as well as using collage. ... Many of Dali’s landscapes are said to have been referenced from Cadaques, but this particular composition is entirely imaginary. The still life and figure drawing occupy an important place in Dali’s work, but the crucible in which he transforms beings and things, thus creating the most astonishing oneiric fresco of the contemporary epoch, is the landscape.
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