SALVADORE DALI
Three Young Surrealist Women Holding In Their Arms the Skins of an Orchestra
Myself At the Age of Six
Women With a Head of Roses
The Apotheosis of Homer
The most inspiring artist I’ve come across would have to be Salvadore Dali. I’m not sure if a gesture is formally associated with only animations of one’s body, but if that’s the case than Dali managed to turn every facet of his works into a gestural caricature. I own a book filled with his art but the most memorable paintings I’ve seen that elicit emotion and underlying sentiments would have to be those without strictly human characters. Dali revolutionized the Surrealist movement by infiltrating every form of media and production with his art. Rather, he was a Surrealist who revolutionized art. He chose to communicate through dreamscapes, which is a cryptic gesture to decipher when the message always represents something that represents something that represents something else.
My interpretation of the gestures in his work would have to be culminated madness. His work is very busy, sometimes bossy, often disarrayed, yet always serene. Like how a dream’s most possessive feature is the sense of normalcy one feels while witnessing utter chaos. Sometimes people feel more in their dreams than they do in real life, which elicits the question, what is more real? The manifestations of your mind, or the qualia of your manifested life. I suppose the difference between the gesture of a dream and a first person gesture would be in the viewer. One is being received and the other is being watched. A dream lives and grows with no barracks in regards to the audience. The audience is the peeping tom and what they witness can only leave them continually confused and possessed by the puzzling appeal. The gesture I identify in Dali’s work is it’s mystery. The mystery of never being able to perceive what is taking place beyond your own eyes. The observation of endless possibilities and transcending speculation without a formulated answer. The existence of reality. That is what I see gesticulated.
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