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Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter who was mainly a surrealist painter. Dali was born on the 11th of May in 1904 in Figueras, Spain and studied at the academy of fine arts until he was expelled at the age of 19 for indiscipline. Influences in Dali’s work are the writings of Sigmund Freud, a famous psychologist and the works of Paris Surrealists. The surrealist movement focused on ‘the imagery from the subconscious mind with no intent of making the artwork logically comprehensible’. Vali Myers was also a painter with her own unique style of painting. Myers was born in Sydney, Australia and at 19 she moved to Paris, then later moved between Pasitano, Italy and New York’s infamous Chelsea hotel, she became friends with artists like Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger and Janis Joplin, her paintings were described by Dali as “excellent” and “original”. An example of Salvador Dali’s work is ‘daddy longlegs of the evening…Hope!’ (1940) is a piece that Dali created with oil on canvas 41cm x 51cm. This art work is a detailed meaningful piece, every aspect of the painting was put there for a reason other then ‘cause it looked good’ upon the first glance there is a feeling of dread and misgiving. The intention of this work is ‘to be an examination of the terrors of World War 2’ Dali fills the piece with references to the events which occurred during World War 2.
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