You should know the drill by now, here are some questions I answered on the documentary nestled cosily under this paragraph.
1 What year was Salvador Dali born? In 1904.
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2 What nationality was Dali? He was Spanish.
3 What age does he go to Madrid to study Fine Art? When he was 18 years old.
4 Did he complete his studies? No, he was expelled for saying that none of his teachers was good enough to examine his work.
5 Discovering what changed Dali’s life? The surrealism art movement.
6 Who started the art movement that Dali is associated with? The French poet Andre Breton.
7 What was the movement response to? The devastations of the 1st world war.
8 What are the main themes of surrealism? Getting in contact with the unconscious mind.
9 What themes were on the 23-year-old Dali’s mind? Death and sex.
10 What is the paranoiac-critical method? It is a technique based on Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theories, that is supposed to extract the strange visions from his deep, hidden psyche, that he hoped would fuel his art.
11 What film did Dali make in 1929 with Luis Buñuel? Un Chien Andalou, which translates to “An Andalusian Dog”.
12 What year did Dali meet his wife? In the summer of 1929.
13 Who was the British patron of Dali and surrealism? Edward James.
14 What year was The Persistence of memory painting first shown in New York? In the year 1932.
15 How much was it originally bought for? $250.
16 When did the artist Jeff Koons meet Dali? When he was a teenager.
17 How much was the skull sculpture (For the Love of God) by Damien Hirst on sale for? £50,000,000.
18 After being dismissed by the Surrealists where did Dali head for? Hollywood, which is sometimes suitably known as “the dream factory”.
19 What year did Dali work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound? 1944.
20 What sequence did he design? The dream sequences.
21 Who else did Dali work with? Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck.
22 What lollypop did Dali design the logo for? Chupa Chups.
23 What year did Dalí Theatre and Museum open? 28th of September, 1974.
24 What year did Dali die? In 1989.
Two of The Terms Used In The Documentary
Avant-garde
The avant-gardes are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society. It may be characterized by nontraditional, aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability, and it may offer a critique of the relationship between producer and consumer.
Juxtaposition
A juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing two elements close together or side by side. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences.
Some Other Surrealist Artists
Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the Scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective.
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian Surrealist artist. He became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juxtaposition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_Chien_Andalou
Ciaran :3 