Study On Art Symbol Of Surrealism Painting Of Dali

In the modern history of art, Surrealism School makes an indelible impression on recent and contemporary oil painting by providing or borrowing various styles and ideas to many later artists. Salvador Dali, a Spanish surrealist artist known for his unique Paranoiac Criticism produces a series of works, ranging from canvas and sculpture to the designs of illustration, fashionable dress and products. What the blazes had influenced this Catalonian showing signs of his painting genius from an early age and brought the world his dreamlike, fanciful imagery and brilliantly colored grotesque cruel canvases. Did his profound childhood experience make a great influence on him and encouraged himself to take a further exploration on some mysterious concepts, as life and death. Or, did he create those resolutely astonished masterpiece by immoderately adhering to his unique Paranoiac Criticism after he contacted and then understood Freud's philosophy. Whether those significant symbols in Dali's works were abstracted from psycho analysis are the embodiment of his philosophy and life style. Now, Let us start to seek Dali's creative inspirations and reasons from the angle of semeiology through those symbols in his works.By studying the cases of Dali's works, this article combs Dali's practice in creation. The methods include comparison analysis and relevant analysis both from specific to generic and from practice to theory. We would like to accurately understand Dali's artistic creation as an inseparable entity, and thus be able to recognize his unique role and contribution in modern art. By analyzing symbols in Dali's paintings, this article also tries to inspire people to find counterparts of their own. We believe this can help form different styles in art with distinct characteristics.