Theodore+Muir

=  Salvador Dalí  = == Salvador Felipe Jacinto Domenech Dali was born twice. The first Salvador Dali had died three years before the boy who was to become the face Surrealism. Dali reasons that, “My brother was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much in the absolute” (Dali 2). Salvador Dali, as we know him, was born May 11th, 1904 in Figueras, Spain. As a boy Dali had many ambitions, however his earliest painting dates back to 1910 when he would have been six years old. Through the course of his career his style was influenced by many sources and Dali experimented with these until he was to find his own. Dali had found his muse, Gala, along with his style when he joined the Surrealist Movement in 1929.

==Paranoiac-Critical Method  ==

The paranoiac-critical method built upon the pre-existing Surrealist automatism, changing it from a passive to an active  stance. Where previous automatism would transcribe the unconscious mind to media, paranoiac-critical reflected the unconscious mind onto reality and was then interpreted through media. For Surrealism it became “preferable to see in automatism ‘the functional form of thought,’ a logic of the image animated by desire rather than the ‘real functioning of thought’” (Jenny and Tretize 110). This new active automatism had its “aims at derealization” (Jenny and Treatize 110), that is, breaking down our rational thoughts of objects and reevaluating them with our subconscious. Dali claimed that “anyone engaging in the paranoiac-critical method would be able to demonstrate that ‘reality’ was not a fixed entity” (Greeley 469) Most people, at some point in their lives, will engage in the paranoiac-critical method themselves. If you have ever stared at the clouds and found images in the fluff, then you have practiced Dali’s method (Mottaz). media type="youtube" key="2kYXTkoZyrw&hl=en" height="352" width="837"

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