Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali
(11 May 1904 - 23 Jan 1989)
In the early 20th century, the work of Sigmund Freud helped cultivate Surrealism and other deliberate attempts by artists to capture the unconscious. With poet André Breton's 1924 plea for "pure psychic automatism" as their manifesto, Surrealists hoped to tap directly into dreams, fantasy and other subliminal churnings of the mind. Paintings by René Magritte, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali and others traded heavily in incongruous imagery -- a locomotive powering through the back wall of a fireplace, a pocket watch melting over the branch of a tree -- often rendered in a frank, almost reportorial style. Film director Luis Buñuel conjured nightmarish dream states in "An Andalusian Dog." Poet Paul Eluard and others experimented in "automatic writing," attempts to free the unconscious in streams of unmetered language.
Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic
Salvador Dali & Gala Born From An Egg
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Dear readers,
My questions are: << The Creative Mind has unconscious possession of Universal rules? Is it possible for the creative mind to acquire complete consciousness of that rules? Does the Creative Mind potentially able to trascend the categories of time and space?
Does the Creative Mind travel consciously across the Symbolic to act new creactions
inner the time and the space of ordinary reality?>>.
Anna Laura Serra.
