https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final Made with charm en-us 2016-12-13 03:51:19 UTC 2023-02-18 13:49:26 UTC hello@padlet.com tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143275414 Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí. ]]> 2016-12-13 04:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143275414 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505066 The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role in Dali's paintings. The painter had studied psycho-analysis and the works of Freud before joining the Surrealists. To dream is easy for him because of his Mediterranean heritage.]]> 2016-12-13 23:27:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505066 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505473 In Le Sommeil (Sleep), Dali recreated the kind of large, soft head and virtually non-existent body that had featured so often in his paintings around 1929. In this case, however, the face is certainly not a self-portrait. Sleep and dreams are par excellence the realm of the unconscious, and consequently of special interest to psychoanalyists and Surrealists. ]]> 2016-12-13 23:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505473 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505689 A spectre full of irony, where an amorphous, soft face appears, supported by crutches, which Dali considered his self-portrait, with a pedestal that bears the inscription of the title of the work and, above, a slice of fried bacon, a symbol of organic matter and of the everyday nature of his breakfasts in New York's Saint Regis Hotel. ]]> 2016-12-13 23:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505689 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505850 The Great Masturbator is a kind of psychic snapshot of where the 25-year-old Dali was at the time he painted this large work, The central image is the widely-seen rock at Cullero, on Cape Creus in Spain, which Dali likened to a head with its nose pressed to the ground. ]]> 2016-12-13 23:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143505850 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143506346 Among the masterpieces Dali painted in his later period, Tuna Fishing occupy the most significant places. Dali was later quoted about this painting that he was trying to represent the notion of a finite rather than infinite universe, underscoring the idea "that all the cosmos and all the universe converge in one point, which, in the present case, is the Tuna-Fishing.]]> 2016-12-13 23:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143506346 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143506561 In 1936, Spain was being torn apart by civil war. Dali and Gala had to do without their retreat to Part Lligat. Instead they travelled around Europe, and spent some time living in Italy.]]> 2016-12-14 00:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143506561 tamer_9990 https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143507584 Metamorphosis of Narcissus is Dali's interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. Narcissus was a youth of great beauty who loved only himself and broke the hearts of many lovers. The gods punished him by letting him see his own reflection in a pool. He fell in love with it, but discovered he could not embrace it and died of frustration. Relenting, the gods immortalised him as the narcissus (daffodil) flower. For this picture Dali used a meticulous technique whic]]> 2016-12-14 00:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tamer_9990/Tameristhebest_final/wish/143507584