Berlin’s Salvador Dalí Museum is a permanent exhibition on display at a private museum in Potsdamer Platz. With over 450 original artworks by Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, it provides insight into Dali’s exceptional talent and amazing “mastership of almost all art techniques”.
Dali Genius
I didn’t realize what a diverse artist Dalí was. The exhibits include a biography, illustrations, lithographs, sculpting, photography, xylographs, drypoint and roulette etchings, collages, mixed-media graphics, Olympic medals, héliogravures, jewelry, books, and a short film! Videos throughout the museum illustrate some of the techniques Dalí used to create his art.
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“Dali studied psycho-analysis and the works of Sigmund Freud before joining the Surrealists. The faithful transcription of dreams has always played a major role in Dali paintings.” Dalipaintings.com
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I’m not a big Dalí fan, but find his surrealistic paintings fascinating, and the excellent exhibit provides deeper understanding and appreciation of his creativity and art. Dali is considered a genius. In addition to his avant-garde paintings, he created beautiful landscapes, still life, and portraiture. This interactive link provides a list of Dali’s works created between 1913 and 1989.
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“Salvador Dalí was an icon of Surrealism, the 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release unconscious creative potential through art that featured dreamlike imagery.” Artsy
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“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” Salvador Dali
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Seventy Years of Dali Art
The Berlin museum is an introduction to Dalí’s complex world. Over 70 years, he produced 1,160 artworks and illustrated his own life for the opening of the Dalí Museum in Spain!
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“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” Salvador Dali
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“The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.” Salvador Dali
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“Surrealist artists reject the rational in art. Instead, they channel the unconscious to unlock the power of imagination.”
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“I have a Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.” Salvador Dali
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Dali Symbolism
Dali used extensive symbolism in his art. Recurring images include “elephants with brittle legs evoking weightlessness, ants – his symbol for decay and death, and melting watches symbolic of the non-linear human perception of time“.
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Dali became the “most influential Surrealist artist and perhaps the most renowned twentieth century painter after Pablo Picasso”.
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Dali’s Most Famous Paintings
The museum contains so much info, I’ll visit again. These are some of Dalí’s most famous paintings:
- The Burning Giraffe
- Tuna Fishing
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee
- Galatea of the Spheres
- Metamorphosis of Narcissus
- Christ of Saint John of the Cross
- The Great Masturbator
- Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
- Swans Reflecting Elephants
- The Persistence of Memory
