Are you familiar with the art of Salvador Dali?

I recently saw an Alice in Wonderland book on EBay with illustrations by Salvador Dali.

I LOVE his work and find it fascinating how anyone can have a mind to draw as he did.

I have several of his lighographs and also love his black and whites. I collect his books, and also have a perfume by him that I bought at an exhibirion of his in Sydney.

by Finy

Wow Finy. Feeling envious.

I am familiar.

I don't like it.

It is a very different concept, and he was very very good.
He was a mad as they come.

by jonaj

that's why I love it -it is so different, and so imaginative and of course from a warped mind!

oh! yes indeed his mind was not sound ......lol

Great answer. If you had put, "as mad as a box of frogs", I would have loved it even more ;-)

I have never heard the saying ''mad as a box of frogs''?...lol

I have heard a box of birds for when one is happy or as mad a a sock full of frogs.

Oh yes!!! I studied his life and works when I did 2 years of Art School in the mid 70's. When the Brisbane Art Gallery held a major exhibition,I bought the most phenomenal catalogue in full colour which featured much of his more famous work!! I still enjoy browsing through it.His work ,which is known as Surrealism,is exactly what the word means....beyond reality in perfection!!!

by Jules

Yes. I'm not a big fan, but I think his work is interesting. I went to see a Dali exhibition once (in London I think it was) and it was good to see the real thing after only seeing them in books before. Some of his paintings are huge!

by Jennifer Muirhead

Yes I do but am not really a fan, prefer Klimpt and Renoir. Am not into still life or abstract or even many landscapes. I love portraits or pics of groups of people.

by Fran

Yes I do but am not really a fan, prefer Klimpt and Renoir. Am not into still life or abstract or even many landscapes. I love portraits or pics of groups of people.

by Fran

I'm very familiar with it - as a teenager I was obsessed with Dali and covered all my folders in his art and newspaper articles about him and I had big posters of his art up on my bedroom walls. I have also been to several exhibitions of Surrealism, which were mind blowing.
Nowadays, I'm not so keen on his art but I am still fascinated by him as a man and as an artist.

by VerityG

I am familiar with his art and I quite like it

by AJ

No I'm not familiar with it.

by Maria

Yep.

by shayd

I'm familiar with it but it's not my cup of tea. Anything abstract leaves me a bit cold so I wouldn't take time pout to go to an exhibition.

by Gayle Beveridge

Yes, & I just love the 'out there' look of his work. He painted what HE wanted to paint & he couldn't care less what people thought! A modern thinker!

by donjo

Yes and yes. In fact, I have that very piece hanging in my hallway. I have always been drawn to his artwork, though I do not like all of it.

by Aleigha

Yes - time!

by pippa

I'm familiar with it, but it's not my style. I prefer more realism. I love Monet and Klimt, I really like beach and bush scenes and houses.

by lynne

Yes - although I find it interesting I don't like his style. Two of my favourite artists are Tamara de Lempicka (who had a very interesting lifestyle) and Frida Kahlo whose work is really a journey of her troubled and painful life.

by norma

Oh! Norma, if you like Frida Kahlo, have you had the opportunity to see her work, in Mexico City?

Yes - droopy & dribbly.
Ross House in Flinders Lane, Mlb, has 'dali-esque' lift clocks bolted to the walls. Both decorative and fun! :-)

by delbr

Yes I am and I like it. I don't think you need to be insane to think like he did. I have some pretty weird dreams that look a bit like some of his work so if I really tried could probably tap into some of that imagery.

by annfi