There is also our Dali sculptures section. This section provides some of the most famous Salvador Dali paintings as a summary of his career, with more available throughout the website. Dali was also involved with Dadaism along with George Grosz and Marcel Duchamp. They both produced Cubist work, whilst Picasso was more on the fringes of the Surrealist group. The nearest comparison with Dali would be fellow Spaniard, Pablo Picasso, who offered similar innovation, variety and productivity over an extended period of time. He was also involved in film, sculpture and photography to various degrees, always looking for new ways to use his creativity. Dali was an ambitious and open minded artist whose career went far beyond the oil paintings found here. He even incorporated some of their specific work into his own unqiue style. Whilst drawing skills were the basis of all of his art, his painting ideas and techniques came from the Renaissance period, which has been influential on many famous names from the art world. Salvador Dali was predominantly a Surrealist painter who experimented with other art movements. We can also learn a lot about his own mind through the various portraits and self-portraits that can be found right across his career. He returned again and again to Freud's writings for inspiration. It was Freud's ground-breaking papers on the symbolism of sexuality in the psyche that encouraged Dali to search his subconscious for what was to become his signature dream images. Strangely, Freud’s influence on the young Dali was even more profound. Picasso's cubism is apparent in a vast array of Dali's work throughout his career. Miro had spoken highly of Salvador’s work to Picasso, and it is said that Picasso recognised Dali's genius almost immediately. Dali was a huge fan of Picasso's when he met him in Paris through an introduction from Joan Miro. However, by far the greatest influence on his work came after he finished his formal education from two of the great men of his day Pablo Picasso, and Sigmund Freud. He explored all manner of styles including impressionism and cubism and began to develop a new "hybrid" style which quickly drew the attention of critics, good and bad. It seemed a natural progression for him to study art in Madrid, where he was exposed to the works of all the greats, from Raphael to Velazquez.
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