Bluest Eyes

Artists Deconstruction

Sara E. Anderson

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on January 16th 2014 for Keri Keith’s Visual Communication in the Media course.

Salvador Dalí was a multi-talented artist known for his surrealist paintings, melting clocks, and eccentric behavior. His art ranged from the two-dimensional to three dimensional, from surrealism to realism and from the chaotic to harmonized.

To understand Dalí as an artist one needs to look at his entire canon of work. Every way Dalí produced art was a way to tell a different story and a different side of himself. Dalí believed that life itself was a work of art. It was a work of art that needs to be mastered and conquered every day. Salvador Dalí turned everything he did in life into an art form.

In fact he developed a skill he called the paranoiac-critical method in order to train his brain to irrationally link objects ideas. He described it as “spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.” Dalí would forge his inspiration and imagination onto many forms of art and create some of the 20th century’s most memorable artistic icon (Art-2, 2013).

This is one of Salvador Dali’s most well-known paintings and is entitled: The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.

This painting is full of allusions which include a flooded landscape. This depicts the changes in the landscape from both above and below the water. Some interpretations of this piece of work claim that it represents Einstein’s theory of relativity, while other interpretations of this work state that it represents the newly emerging ideas of quantum mechanics and the coming of the digital age.

This painting shows the use of pure lines in certain areas. The objects are represented with precision and attention to detail, but their dimensions are not real and are deformed in ways. The lighting...