He developed his own visual language for depicting his own inner world, dreams, and hallucinations.
Read on to discover five of Dalis most famous paintings.
Here are five famous Salvador Dali paintings you should know.
Salvador Dalí, 1965 (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, Public Domain)
It was painted in 1931 during the height of the Surrealist movement.
During this time, artists were exploring their subconscious and often depicted their own dreams.
When Dali paintedThe Persistence of Memory, his artistic practice was guided by the strange paranoiac-critical method.
Ants surround a single pocket watch, representing decay; a concept Dali had a fascination for.
Perhaps the most perplexing part of the painting is a sleeping face-like figure on the ground.
It is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist.
A pomegranate bursts open to release a giant redfish from whose mouth two ferocious tigers leap together towards Gala.
The elephant is based ona statueby Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
For Dali, its a symbol of war and destruction.
Its presence conveys a mood of terror often felt in a nightmare.
The strange parade is led by a horse, representing the temptation of power.
They march towards Saint Anthony the Great, a Christian monk, during his Egyptian desert pilgrimage.
Hes depicted trying to resist and warn them off with a cross.
He depicts her head, neck, and shoulders as a series of three-dimensional spheres.
Ever since the first atomic bomb explosions of August 1945, Dali was fascinated by nuclear physics.
He replicated this idea in his art by painting individual objects suspended in peculiar formations.
The artist chose to reinterpret the traditionalstill life paintingby illustrating the objects in constant motion.
The motif is seen throughout this paintingfrom the cauliflowers structure to an iron bar on the balcony railing.
