For my artist report I chose Salvador Dali, the Spanish surrealist painter. Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in the small town of Figueras, Spain on May 11, 1904. He came from a middle-class family and seemed to express a great interest in art from the very beginning. He read many books about art as a young child and had a completed his first oil paintings at the age of eight. At this point he was sent …showed first 75 words of 1091 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1091 total…the titles of many of these paintings, simply because the title is either just a wordy description of the painting or an unrelated rambling. Overall I like Salvador Dali's work because I enjoy the kind of fantastic images that he paints. I'm sure there are metaphors in his paintings, but they are not as easily noticed because of the amount going on in the painting. That is my opinion of the work of Salvador Dali.