I clearly remember my first migraine. I was visiting with friends, when a strange zig zag of light flashed across one eye, almost like lightening. Like a Salvatore Dali painting everything seemed surreal, almost as if the room were melting. People were talking to me, but I couldn’t understand. Like an out of body experience, I felt disoriented and weak, my arm went numb and everything seemed as if I were looking through broken glass. Then came the pain. The awful throbbing pain that lasted for two days with no relief. I was sure it was brain tumor, so I went to a neurologist who, after much testing, told me I suffered from classic migraine.
Bio
Instead of depicting scenes of reality enhanced through creative distortion and subtle manipulation, as the Impressionists had, Dalí and his contemporaries sought to capture emotional states using archetypical symbols and dream imagery.
Thanks to Dali wiki.Artwork is from Virtual Dali.
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Salvador Dalí
The results were often astounding, and often astoundingly disturbing. As a teenager learning a trade, Dalí’s still lifes and landscapes had been competent but somewhat uninspired.
In 1974 Dalí opened the Teatro Museo Dalí in Figures, Spain. This was followed by retrospectives in Paris and London at the end of the decade. After the death of his wife, Gala, in 1982, Dalí’s health began to fail. He lived as an invalid near his Teatro Museo and died in 1989.
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Dalí fled from fighting and refused to align himself with any group. Likewise, after World War II, George Orwell criticized Dalí for scuttl[ing] off like rat as soon as France is in danger after Dalí prospered there for years: When the European War approaches he has one preoccupation only: how to find a place which has good cookery and from which he can make a quick bolt if danger comes too near.