| Salvador Dali,a famous Spanish surrealist painter,is known as the most representative painter of the 20 th century with Picasso and Matisse.Dali has a solid foundation of painting skill,with all the artist’s rich imagination,he is good at using his inner absurdity and strange ideas to show some illogical things,distort the people’s familiar things,and reappear on paper with his excellent painting skills,so Dali’s works are difficult to understand and can not be understood.Dali’s work has a great relationship with his times background.Dali’s twentieth century is a period full of contradictions,full of wars and not factors,the pattern of the world reshuffle,economic,political,cultural art,science and technology breakthroughs in the development,so that people generated many contradictions of thought and behavior.In this background,Dali absorbed the characteristics of his time and his own experience into his painting creation,including his own contradictions,the trauma experienced,the life from the times,and so on.Dali’s works are full of subconscious,symbolic,absurd and weird ideas,this paper intercepts the symbolic meaning to explore,through the symbolic meaning of the pure point of exploration,on the one hand,to make up for the lack of the symbolic implications of Dali painting works,enrich theoretical research,on the other hand,to understand the meaning of Dali painting,heritage its painting skills,improve our painting level.The research content of this paper is divided into four parts:The first part of the paper first briefly describes the life of Salvador Dali.Because Dali’s age is itself a rapid development,full of contradictions,the background of this era and the experience of Dali in this era,the trauma of Dali has led to the formation of surrealism painting style.The second part of the paper is mainly to explore the reason why Dali is full of symbols.Dali’s painting style is absurd and mysterious,contradictory and strange,expanding the content of surrealism,created many new theories and schools of surrealism,for the later painting art has a huge impact.And Dali’s painting works full of symbolic meaning is not sudden,its force and many factors,in this part will explore these reasons.(1)social environment and the impact of growth experience on his painting style(2)renaissance,especially Freud’s influence on his painting style(3)the influence of Picasso on his painting style.The third part of the paper mainly introduces the concept of visual symbols.In Dali’s paintings,we can obviously feel the arrival of the various objects in the deformation or combination stack,to form a visual symbol of symbols,so we must understand the visual symbols.To know what visual symbols are,how does Dali use visual symbols,what visual effects are brought about by the use of these visual symbols,and what kind of intrinsic meaning is contained in it.(1)the concept of visual symbol(2)how to use visual symbol(3)the influence(4)of visual symbols in Dali’s works.The fourth part is the application and summary of self-practice.Now is the era of east and west culture,global culture,mutual influence of each other,want to learn a good art is to learn to integrate things,learn from the home.Dali is a master of Spanish painting art,his painting art depth,the broad theme of painting,the rich feelings of the rich are deeply admired.Therefore,to appreciate Dali’s works,understand his painting skills,feel his inner thought is very helpful to our own creation in the painting works,improve his painting skills. |