Art 2: Salvador Dali
The Salvador painting was created in Spain in 1931 during the surrealist art movement. Four watches melt at a deserted seaside. One of the watches is swarmed with ants while the other watches have a fly on them. Dali’s painting has an odd background, broken, dried out tree that has a watch hanged on one of its branches. Dali used artistic elements such as proportion, lines, texture, unity, variety, shapes, repetition, texture, color, harmony, and balance. From the painting, Dali uses the body of water to meet the horizon line. On the right side of the paintings, Dali uses an organic form that has no geometric lines.
The lines and form elements in the paintings are horizontal lines and a three-dimensional form. The paintings can be viewed from more than one side. In the art, the water body meets the horizontal line, and the organic form on the right has no geometric lines. The horizontal lines suggest a feeling of rest since the objects that are parallel to the earth are at rest. Besides, the horizontal lines give a sense of space. The lines imply a continuation of the landscape beyond the pictures. He uses both dark and light colors in his paintings. There is a light color at the horizons and the dark color on the middle watch. There are rectangular shapes painted grey, and the horizon has a blue color. From the paintings, there is an excellent balance on the negative and positive space. Dali has used dark and light colors to give a balance and proportion of his paintings. The paintings are in organic form as there are irregular or asymmetrical shapes of the watches and the tree. The texture that has been used in the arts is rough and bumpy. The artist has used the actual textures to add a tactile quality in his work.