Inventive, enigmatic, ingenious, self-promotional, deviant; Salvador Dalí since his early feuds with Surrealist founder André Breton has been accused of many things. But, although the Spanish artist may be most widely known for his public personae, pet anteaters, and perfectly groomed mustache, it is his varied output over nearly seven decades that has led to his rightful consideration as one of his generations greatest artists.

One of the earliest visual artists involved with Surrealism, Dalí quickly dreamt up his own method for tapping into the subconscious plane of existence, the paranoid critical method. The method he would use to paint for the duration of his career, under a self-induced paranoid state Dalí would later paint the images conjured in his head. Materializing this symbolic language of the subconscious through his brilliant technical skills as a painter, the artists utilized optical illusions to juxtapose multiple conflicting images. Effectively grounding the truth of a picture in individual perspective, the Surrealist subverts the imperialism’s logic of timeless truth and beauty in classical art by subverting it with the timelessness of man’s temporal psychological states.

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech (b 1904 Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, d 1989 Figueres) was one of those most celebrated artists of his generation ahs been the subject of enumerous solo and group exhibitions. Dalí has museums in his hometown of Figueres and St. Petersburg, Florida dedicated to the continuous exhibition, education, and interaction with the artist’s oeuvre.