The Essential Salvador Dali (7)

The Essential Salvador Dali
Robert Goff

I don't usually include art books in my reading lists and reviews. But I pick them up from time to time. I don't really know anything about art.. but my two favorite authors are Escher and Dali. There are similarity of both in their complexity.
Dali is so weird... so strange.. so DETAILED.. you can look at his painting and it is hard to take it all in.. the objects seem disjointed and your brain struggles to fit it together and make sense of it. I can look at it and keep noticing new things in the pictures. He really was amazing.. how he came up with the content for his painting and the level of detail in some of them is astounding.

This book is a wonderful edition, sort of like art for dummies. It goes through and gives you background on Dali, as well and explaining the meaning of some of his noted works. It gives you a quick introduction to Dali's life and work.. and does so in a simple fun manner that does not require an art history degree to make sense of!

The book is tiny about 6" square... which is my only complain of it.. it is too small to see much of the detail in the paintings.

I highly recommend this book to anyone like me, who is interested in Dali's work, but really knows nothing about art.

Some Dali Resources...
The Dali Museum in Florida has the largest collection of Dali art in the world.

Also found the Dali Art Gallery on line which has a lot of his painting as well as some of his drawing and studies for his paintings, and some of his objects. Dali was much more than just a painter.. he worked in many mediums and also wrote.