Although I do appreciate Salvador Dali's insanely incredible collection of paintings he produced, (ab0ut 8000), I disagree with a lot of his philosophy when it comes to painting. This quote lends to the notion that although Dali was a master of representing reality in a new way, he had difficulty reinterpreting it:
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
-Salvador Dali
He considered himself quite radical with his surrealistic style. But in my book, when for example the Dada movement, and the first formally non-representational paintings were produced decades before Dali became successful, this is just not true. Of course he is a master painter with great style, I'm just saying he wasn't on the forefront of modern art, that is for sure. Fellow Spanish painter Picasso was born 23 years before Dali, and Picasso's style is years ahead of his. But I'm not putting down the man by any means, I am just saying I don't personally dig art that is so reliant on already known images, even if they are all twisted about.
Cubist Self Portrait, Salvador Dali, 1923.
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