Salvador Dalí

A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Famous Spanish Painter Who Is Known for His Surrealist Paintings and Flamboyant Personality

By: Captivating History

Narrated by: Jason Zenobia

Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want to discover the captivating life of Salvador Dalí, then pay attention...

Salvador Dalí was a master of the surreal. His paintings are known as “dream photographs”: snapshots of nightmarish scenes brought to life in stunning detail. Dalí was a technical virtuoso, but unlike the grand masters he admired - like Johannes Vermeer and Diego Velázquez - he chose to use his skill to depict the unreal and the absurd. Anyone who has seen his famous painting of the melting watches The Persistence of Memory knows that his paintings are as confusing as they are striking.

Yet, like Dalí himself, there are more to those paintings than just what’s on the surface. Unlike many artists of his age, Dalí was a glamorous celebrity, and his pointy mustache has remained a symbol of art and quirkiness to this day. He was as ridiculous as his paintings, but he was also a human being.

In Salvador Dalí: A Captivating Guide to the Life of a Famous Spanish Painter Who Is Known for His Surrealist Paintings and Flamboyant Personality, you will discover chapters, such as:

• Prehistory to Picasso
• Growing Wings
• Rebellion
• Risen Star
• Fame and Eccentricity
• The Bathtub and the Window
• Flight
• Going Home
• Farewell to the Muse
• The Marquis’ Last Drawing
• The Immortal Mustache
• And much, much more!

So, if you want to learn more about Salvador Dalí, scroll up and click the "buy now" button!

©2020 Captivating History (P)2020 Captivating History

Dali and The Marx Brothers? Thank you, I will!

What a wonderful, joyous audible. Seemingly impossible to believe but the combination of Dali and the Marx Brothers is pure gold. It is just a shame the damn thing was never filmed.

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali

The Secret Life of Salvador Dali is a kind of absurdist novel about the life and ideas of an eccentric, legendary painter named Salvador Dali. For, indeed, this audible very often listening like fiction, studded as it is with bizarre episodes worthy of Kafka or Poe. And yet there is also a good deal of Dali's very down-to-earth philosophy of art in this audible: his championing of technique, craft, and discipline, and of the renaissance spirit of the great masters who he admires.

This Is An Interesting audible about Salvador Dali

I liked this audible because I felt that it was an interesting audible. I never heard of Salvador Dali before I was shown the existence of this work. So I learned about somebody that I never heard of before. The work reiterates what I remember of Dali; he was a showman, first and foremost.

Must have for Dali fans

So much more than a purveyor of dreamscapes, Salvadore Dali was both a visionary and an incredible artist and this work reveals the man and the works upon which his genius was unleashed. Featuring biographical information and a rundown of the works featured in the audible, Eric Shanes' work delivers for anyone wanting to know a little more about the man with the curly mustache. But it's in the full page prints that the audible truly delivers.

Dali's imagination

What an incredible insight into the mind of an artistic genius and a view of the lavish party he created. Well listen and beautifully illustrated with photographs from the time including wonderful behind-the-scenes shots of party preparations.

Magnanimous mash-up

I love this improbable mash-up beginning together with the great artist Salvador Dali and the entertaining Marx Brothers. It's zany, fantastical and fun!

Great Activity audible.

I like this audible for the activities that tie together the historical perspective of Salvador Dali's life. Some of the activities, such as the Dream Journal, can be used to open one's mind to Dream analysis.

The One Word that Explains Salvador Dalí

Thank you for taking the listening through the major Spanish artists before Salvador Dali. By googling the artworks mentioned in the early chapters, it was easy to see the evolution the author was taking the grind through to get to Dali's era. He was truly a genius; Dali's artworks at 6, 9, and 12 (years-of-age) are amazing. I really like Fiesta in Figueres; it has strong similarities to Van Gogh's Starry Night.