Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso: A Comparative Analysis

This essay elaborates about the two renowned personalities in the pages of art history. A critical evaluation of what these two artists have achieved.

VISUAL ART

Introduction
This essay elaborates about the two renowned personalities in the pages of art history. As per
the requirement, this essay choses two eminent artist who has reflected time as well as place
where they created it. A critical evaluation of what these two artists have achieved.
Salvador Dali
Dali was a Spanish famous professional in regards to painting, filmmaking, and printmaking.
This artist has well exploration of subconscious imagination. During his time, he discovered
the concept of modern paintings by the assistance of Ramon Pichot. Dali always used to
experiment what he viewed in his dreams. The entire artwork of Dali revolved around the
same concept “thinking of the unconscious mind.” Dali`s unique sense of thinking and he
often believes that situations, which are happening around us are not exactly the truth. With
this unique kind of sense, he could develop his own style (Dalí, & Finkelstein, 1998). Miro
and Picasso induced his artwork. In 1920, his joint surrealist group which sought to
channelize the unconsciousness so that it can unlock his strength of unconscious imagination
and mind. This surrealist works on to control the soul in order to find the certain
contradiction in their lives and finally shoot to imagination revolution (Factinate, 2019). He
always contradicted the ancestral thinking that says the realism can be defined as the streets
in the regular life. The surrealists had encouraged the Dali for his paranoiac method of
finding the subconscious imagination in order to explore creativity that is more artistic. His
style of painting was matured very quickly. During the 1929 to 1937, one of his illustration
painting was “the persistence of memory” in 1931 that signifies and shows melting clocks in
a landscape setting. In this painting his imagined and drawn image of soft and tender watch
pocket, which was melting. This artwork was a greater influential interpretation of the
artwork where the soft watches is the symbol of rejection hypothesis and time is too
inflexible and staff. Some of the art scholars have believed that his “persistent of memory”

has symbolised Einstein theory of relativity where the scientist had proposed the new concept
of time where the time is relative and multifaceted. The last artwork “the Swallow`s tail” and
his work was influenced by theory of mathematical calamity of the Rene Thom. He was
honoured in several art galleries and museums in 1982. He was titled as Queen Isabella
(Ferro, 2018).
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso is an Spanish printmaker, painter, stage designer, and playwright who had
spent his adult life in France. He is well known as one of the most influential artists in the
20th century. He was known for his founding the cubist movement and he coined the
constructed sculpture, invention of collages, and also the variety of styles which assist to
develop and explore. He worked on bombing of Guernica in his dramatic portrayal by the
enabling them with Italian and German air forces during Spanish civil war. He demonstrated
that his extraordinary artistic talent was inherent. He paints in a naturalistic manner in his
childhood and his teenage. In 20th century, his style changes because he experimented with
different techniques, theories, and ideas (Favero, Mass, Delaney, Woll, Hull, Dooley, &
Finnefrock, 2017). Further, he experimented to do an older work that motivated him and
explored various radical styles. His style of artwork was criticised by the leaders of the
modern art. The work of this artist changed in several accepted periods blue period, rose
period, crystal period, and African-influenced period (Stella, Bracci, Iannaccone, Nasa, &
Colombini, 2019). After 1910 and 1920, he was more in neoclassical style and has the
characteristics of surrealism. His work later combines the elements of earlier styles. Picasso
achieved immense fortune and universal renown for the revolutionary accomplishments for
the artist. His art was the outcome of influence of archaic and tribal art, which motivated him
his figures of art to be more structure, and sent him on the path of cubism. He has
demonstrated the perspective of convention, which dominated painting since renaissance.

Since the evolution, Picasso was awarded Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. This award was
recognised as equivalent to Nobel Prize (Picasso, 2018).
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