Original Salvador Dali Prints for Sale
Overview
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dalí.”
The most famous member of the Surrealist movement and the 20th century's most unconventional polymath, Dalí's creative output encompassed the fields of painting, printmaking, sculpture, fashion, advertising and filmmaking. His work predominantly explores subconscious imagery, using an intense visual language to express his dreams and hallucinations. His graphic work forms a major part of his output and captures the full breadth of his evolution as an artist.
Dalí's major contribution to Surrealism came in the form of the “paranoiac-critical method”, a way to “systematise confusion and thereby contribute to a total discrediting of the world of reality.” It entailed the cultivation of a deliberately disordered state of mind, allowing the viewer to forge connections between unrelated objects and thus open up new avenues of thought.
He was keen to explore novel effects through a variety of print media. He famously experimented with the use of ink bullets and snail shells filled with printer’s ink, firing them at his lithographic stones with a 15th century musket. He was also known to fill rhinoceros horns with ink-soaked French bread before using them to draw directly onto the printing plate. The majority of Dalí's prints are etchings, but he was also an avid producer of lithograpghs, engravings and woodcuts.
Dalí was rarely out of the public eye and was a legend in his own lifetime. His work is instantly recognisable and is held in numerous museum collections worldwide. His prints represent fantastic value and are a perfect entry point to one of the most unique careers in the history of art.
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