Dali Paintings picturesAdvanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 42 image entries
Contest Directions: 
This Sunday is the 104th birthday of a Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali. While his painting skills were influenced by the masters of Renaissance, Dali used a lot of hidden symbolism in his art. For example, in Dali's most famous painting - The Persistence of Memory - the soft watches symbolize Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.
To celebrate the birthday of the world's most famous surrealist painter Salvador Dali, show what his art would be like if he created it these days with a power of Photoshop rather than brushes and paint. Would he be doing advertisements, or maybe even posters for movies? See example 1 , example 2, example 3 , and example 4.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $5, 2nd place: $3 , 3rd place: $2
Started: 5/10/2008 6:00:00 PM, Ended: 5/13/2008 6:00:00 AM
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| | Salvador Dali (at a birth Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech); born on May 11th 1904 – January 23rd 1989) - the Spanish artist, the painter, the draftsman, the sculptor, the director. One of the most popular representatives of surrealism. Films: «Un chien andalou», the "Golden Age" "Bewitched".
Biography:
Salvador Dali was born on May, 11th, 1904 in the city of Figerase (Sp. Figueras), province Jerona in the north of Spain), in a family of the prosperous notary. He started training in the fine arts at municipal art school. From 1914 to 1918 it was brought up in Academy of medal of Marists brothers of in Figueras .
Salvador Dali, 1939
In 1916 he had gone on a vacation to the city of Kadakes where for the first time has got acquainted with the modernist art. The first personal exhibition of the Dali had taken place in 1919. In 1921 his father decides to send Salvador for studies to Madrid, to Academy of arts of San-Fernando where he gets acquainted with such figures of the Spanish culture as Luis Bunuel, Federico Garcia Lorca and Pedro Garfias.
Acquaintance to new streams in painting develops - Dali experiments methods of cubism and
Dadaism. In 1926 he was expelled from Academy for the haughty and scornful relation to teachers. The same year for the first time goes to Paris where gets acquainted with Picasso. Trying to find own style, in the late twenties creates a number of works under the influence of Picasso and Juan Miro. In 1929 participates together with Buñuel in creation of a surrealistic film «Un chien andalou». Then he meets for the first time the future wife Gala (Elena Dmitrievna Dyakonova) who was then the wife of the poet of Paul Éluard. |
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