Salvador Dali’s surrealist works mark significant changes in thought as well as in visual concepts and perception. In many ways changes in visual perception can either lead to or indicate changes in thought. Dali’s use of optical illusions and purposefully abstract principles create paintings with an intellectual interest in their ability to suggest concepts or ideas.
Galatea of Spheres, painted by Dali in 1952 and was surprisingly ahead of its time in its use of repeated overlapping shapes to create form and shape to display one image. Although this could be said of a mosaic, Dali’s work stands out because in many ways it appears and draws on modern ideas of computer graphics and a more advanced understanding of shape and form in sketching and painting as a visual technique. In this way Dali captivates his viewer visually while at the same time playing with new, innovative ideas that overcome the pure photographic depictions of realism, or the complete spontaneity of free form art work that can often leave something to be desired in terms of realistic depiction of human form or the natural environment. In conclusion, thought + realistic depiction = Dali and Surrealism.(Chap. 31 Art)
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