Vocabulary Lesson 9

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)Surrealist artist

PowerPoint by Mrs. HintonFor English 10Montevallo High School

PERCEPTIONWhat is your

perception of the work of surrealist artist

Salvador Dali? Do you understand, for

instance, his depictions of the human body?

MUTABLE For artistic purposes, Dali certainly found

the human body mutable: He freely

changed its basic form in a number of

paintings.

INDESTRUCTIBLE Dali’s view in the painting

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans:

Premonition of Civil War seems to be not only that

humanity is not indestructible, but that it is

capable of its own destruction.

INNATEThe painting clearly

illustrates Dali’s ability to defy reality on canvas. Such an ability can’t, I think, be learned: It must be

inborn, or innate.

COMPLIANCEIn that disturbing painting, Dali shows

compliance, or agreement, with the surrealist belief that feelings and ideas must be expressed.

AXIOMDon’t you think

Dali’s painting prove the old

axiom “Beauty is in the eye of the

beholder”?

INANIMATEOf course, Dali's

paintings are inanimate objects, yet they are hardly

lifeless or spiritless.

PREVALENTAlthough surrealism was

a popular movement in its day, the surrealist style never became prevalent in the art world. It was

confined to a small group of artists.

COMPATIBLEFrankly, I have

never been compatible with

anyone who likes surrealist art, but

maybe we can learn to get along.

RECOURSEPerhaps you are

my last recourse for help in learning to appreciate

surrealist art.

Vocabulary Lesson 9

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, he was born in Figueras, Spain and became one of the more influential painters of the 20th Century.

I hope you found the context clues!~Mrs. Hinton