Why do we like Dali's paintings?

[raccoon]

I do, but I couldn't tell you WHY.....

[DarkTirade]

1. Because we're not allowed to do drugs?

:shrug:

[RadiationTherapy]

6. Humans do love an altered reality! nt

[old mark]

2. I have seen the original in NYC

several times, and I am in awe of the painting technique. It is flawless -not a single brush stroke, or any indication it was painted at all - it looks like a photograph, and is about the size of a cigar box.

It is a jewel, by an absolute master painter.


mark

[kwassa]

3. I like this Dali painting, but not most of his work

The Persistence of Memory is his most famous painting, I think,

Dali is a superb technician, but he fell in love with being a celebrity more than anything else, and much of his later work is what I would call slick-but-empty. I've seen a lot of it, a full museum of it. Dali was more a lifestyle than an artist.

[Rhythm]

4. I love Dali... his attention to detail (even while warping reality) was astonishing

I'm especially awed by the magnitude of the size of some of his masterworks. How he could execute so many of the shifting images that he did while working on things that scale is the work of a genius and a madman.

[montanto]

5. Because they represent the absurd things

that we see in dreams. We all have them, Dali puts them on canvas.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Pretty much. Of all the surrealists though, Dali, in spite of some of his great stuff, was a wanker.

I'll take Magritte any day. :P

[Dangerously Amused]

8. We don't.

We like Thomas Kinkade much better.