Salvador Dali "Soft Self Portrait"

Salvador Dali the 20th century’s most famous surrealist painter made his reputation in Europe and the United States. His art was influenced by the cubism of Picasso and the psychological theories of Freud. Famous for his flamboyant personality as well as his art, he worked in several media, including film: he collaborated with filmmaker Luis Buñuel and designed the dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945). The point of surrealism is to show a subconscious art form. The works of art that artists create are something that they may have seen in a dream. Maybe they have a strange imagination or maybe, they like too think of things that are out of the ordinary. Surrealists create things that are unrealistic by using a realistic object then by either placing it into a background that is strange and doesn’t make sense. They also create surreal art by taking an object and morphing it or obscuring it. In this self portrait by Salvador Dali which he has rightfully named Soft Self Portrait he has created his own face into a surrealistic painting. He has made his face into a soft doughy for that is resting on stick like crutches that are holding the pars of his face up. You can tell that it is him from the mustache that he is associated with having. It could be taken from this painting that he is trying to say that he has a soft side or maybe he was just bored and wanted to make his face look like it was melted. Dali himself styles his self-portrait as "an anti-psychological self-portrait, instead of painting the soul, or the inner of oneself, to paint solely the appearance, the cover, my soul's glove. This glove of my soul can be eaten and is even a little sharp, like highbred game; there for ants appear together with the fried bacon.