Vocabulary Lesson 9 Salvador Dali 1904 1989 Surrealist

Vocabulary Lesson 9 Salvador Dali (1904 -1989) Surrealist artist Power. Point by Mrs. Hinton For English 10 Montevallo High School

PERCEPTION v What is your perception of the work of surrealist artist Salvador Dali? Do you understand, for instance, his depictions of the human body?

MUTABLE v. For artistic purposes, Dali certainly found the human body mutable: He freely changed its basic form in a number of paintings.

INDESTRUCTIBLE v Dali’s view in the painting Soft Construction with Boiled Beans: Premonition of Civil War seems to be not only that humanity is not indestructible, but that it is capable of its own destruction.

INNATE v The painting clearly illustrates Dali’s ability to defy reality on canvas. Such an ability can’t, I think, be learned: It must be inborn, or innate.

COMPLIANCE v. In that disturbing painting, Dali shows compliance, or agreement, with the surrealist belief that feelings and ideas must be expressed.

AXIOM v Don’t you think Dali’s painting prove the old axiom “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”?

INANIMATE v. Of course, Dali's paintings are inanimate objects, yet they are hardly lifeless or spiritless.

PREVALENT v Although surrealism was a popular movement in its day, the surrealist style never became prevalent in the art world. It was confined to a small group of artists.

COMPATIBLE v. Frankly, I have never been compatible with anyone who likes surrealist art, but maybe we can learn to get along.

RECOURSE v. Perhaps you are my last recourse for help in learning to appreciate surrealist art.

Vocabulary Lesson 9 I hope you found the context clues! ~Mrs. Hinton Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech Marquis of Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), popularly known as Salvador Dalí, he was born in Figueras, Spain and became one of the more influential painters of the 20 th Century.