How Did Salvador Dali Influence Surrealism

Two influential artists that inspired Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (or Dali for short)were Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He met Picasso in 1926 after being expelled from his school. He also started growing a flamboyant mustache after Biegor Velazquez another one of his influences. Even with Picasso and Miro both influencing him he still had his own unique style of art. Most of Dali’s work was original since he had his own style, but still Picasso did influence some of his painting like Dali’s “experimentation with impressionism and cubism before joining the surrealist movement in 1929”. Dali admired Picasso more than Miro mainly because they had met so Miro didn’t influence some of his painting like Picasso did. His parent at first pushed him to be a chef, but when Dali wanted to be an artist his parents were still supportive of his dream(The My Hero Project).

One distinguishing feature of Dali is his crazy mustache that Biegor Velazquez inspired him to have. Dali tried to improve mastered techniques but it failed in making him famous. To fulfill his art needs he created surrealism to express his artistic desires. Most of Dali’s artwork was imaginative and erotic. When Dali met with surrealists in paris they saw that Dali’s exceptionally rich imagination
The painting is set in a flat piece of land with water in the background, rigid mountains in the back right corner and a bluish orange sky like the sun is setting. The main picture are four clocks melting away. One clock is slung over a tree like clothes on a clothesline. Another clock is on a table half of it is draping down the side while the other half is flat on the table. Beside that is a small old stop watch that is not melting. The last one is slung over a deflated corpse in the middle of the picture. Dali said “the corpse does not represent anything its just there to confuse people and discredit the world of