{"id":3553,"date":"2012-04-25T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:09:57","slug":"the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artistic inspiration comes from a variety of sources: nature, people, other works of art, a piece of music and dreams. \u00a0Dreams, especially, are the diamonds mined from the unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>For the father of the Surrealist movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/saldalrep.html\">Salvador Dali<\/a>, dreams, visions and symbols supplied fantastical images for his work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/excol.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/overstockart_2204_1797041254.gif\" alt=\"Dali - Soft Watch at the Moment of Explosion Oil Painting\" title=\"Dali - Soft Watch at the Moment of Explosion Oil Painting\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3554\" \/><\/a>Dali described his paintings as \u201chand-painted dream photographs.\u201d \u00a0One of his favorite recurring images, bent and flowing watches, look as if they\u2019re made of wax, melting away on a hot summer day in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>Dali\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/perofmem24x36.html\">The Persistence of Memory<\/a> (1931) is one of the best known surrealist pieces, and the piece utilizing this type of watch. \u00a0For <a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dali<\/a>, his inspiration for this came to him in two ways: from Einstein\u2019s theory that time is relative, unfixed, and fluid. \u00a0This idea, in turn, was demonstrated by a piece of cheese melt in summer heat, transforming into a runny mess.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/excol.html\">Soft Watch at the Moment of Explosion <\/a>also showcases a squishy watch. In this piece, perhaps the constraints of time and space are shattered, where impossible scenarios and infinite opportunities become possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/saldalrep.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg\" alt=\"Dali dreams\" title=\"Dali dreams\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>When asleep, the conscious brain disappears, and the sub- and un-conscious takes over. Images from myth and movies, from work and waking morph into odd, awe-inspiring or awful. Dali was able to harness his dream landscape and hallucinogenic imaginings \u2013 without psychotropic drugs. \u00a0His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/sleep.html\">Sleep <\/a>appears to be the dreamer dreaming the dream, supported by surreal crutches, the waking world far off in the distance, just an echo of memory.<\/p>\n<p>If the artist is focused, in tune and aware, they can awake and capture the dream. Oftentimes, the dream is elusive. \u00a0In its stead, a waking meditative state can harness the subconscious. \u00a0When an artist, whether a painter, writer, sculptor is deep within the creative process, it produces a trance-like meditative state, where the \u201creal\u201d world falls away. It is replaced with a state of hyper-awareness, focusing the artist\u2019s mind and intent, propelling the brain and body forward.<\/p>\n<p>Like Dali\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/meditativerose.html\">The Meditative Rose<\/a>, the petals of the process open, one by one, letting the fragrance of imagination in.<\/p>\n<p>Eccentric, strange and bizarre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/saldalrep.html\">Salvador Dali\u2019s <\/a>genius was recognized by master in other disciplines. Dali was sought-after in the movie-making process. Famous filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock thought Dali perfect, employing him to create the dream sequence in his film, Spellbound, providing the perfect atmosphere for the film.<\/p>\n<p>With their metaphysical leanings, Dali\u2019s paintings invoke the mystical and mythical \u2013 the very things that resonate with the human soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artistic inspiration comes from a variety of sources: nature, people, other works of art, a piece of music and dreams. \u00a0Dreams, especially, are the diamonds mined from the unconscious. For the father of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dali, dreams, visions and symbols supplied fantastical images for his work. Dali described his paintings as \u201chand-painted dream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[213,396],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-salvador-dali","tag-surrealism"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Artistic inspiration comes from a variety of sources: nature, people, other works of art, a piece of music and dreams. \u00a0Dreams, especially, are the diamonds mined from the unconscious. For the father of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dali, dreams, visions and symbols supplied fantastical images for his work. Dali described his paintings as \u201chand-painted dream [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/overstockArt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/overstockart_2204_1797041254.gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Crystal Spear\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@overstockart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@overstockart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Crystal Spear\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Crystal Spear\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0\"},\"headline\":\"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\"},\"wordCount\":425,\"commentCount\":5,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"salvador dali\",\"surrealism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\",\"name\":\"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":306,\"caption\":\"Dali dreams\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\",\"description\":\"Tips, Updates, and News from the Art &amp; Decor World\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0\",\"name\":\"Crystal Spear\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/39.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/39.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Crystal Spear\"},\"description\":\"I was raised in Wichita, KS and I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. I paint the interior of my house according to the season and could not imagine a world without colors. I am a writer, mother, and grandmother - My motto in life has always been \\\"Any day you wake up is going to be a good day\\\".\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/author\/crystal\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com","og_description":"Artistic inspiration comes from a variety of sources: nature, people, other works of art, a piece of music and dreams. \u00a0Dreams, especially, are the diamonds mined from the unconscious. For the father of the Surrealist movement, Salvador Dali, dreams, visions and symbols supplied fantastical images for his work. Dali described his paintings as \u201chand-painted dream [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/","og_site_name":"ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/overstockArt\/","article_published_time":"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/overstockart_2204_1797041254.gif","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Crystal Spear","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@overstockart","twitter_site":"@overstockart","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Crystal Spear","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/"},"author":{"name":"Crystal Spear","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0"},"headline":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali","datePublished":"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/"},"wordCount":425,"commentCount":5,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg","keywords":["salvador dali","surrealism"],"articleSection":["Art"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/","url":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/","name":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg","datePublished":"2012-04-25T09:09:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/dali-dreams.jpg","width":400,"height":306,"caption":"Dali dreams"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/the-dream-paintings-of-salvador-dali\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Dream Paintings of Salvador Dali"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/","name":"ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com","description":"Tips, Updates, and News from the Art &amp; Decor World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/dcca5d864d28837f3397716e5952ace0","name":"Crystal Spear","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/39.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/39.jpg","caption":"Crystal Spear"},"description":"I was raised in Wichita, KS and I have been drawing and painting as long as I can remember. I paint the interior of my house according to the season and could not imagine a world without colors. I am a writer, mother, and grandmother - My motto in life has always been \"Any day you wake up is going to be a good day\".","url":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/author\/crystal\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}