Because of his extravagant personality, Salvador Dalí was, and continues to be considered the quintessential ’character’ of Surrealism since he joined it in 1929.
Because of his extravagant personality, Salvador Dalí was, and continues to be considered the quintessential ’character’ of Surrealism since he joined it in 1929. Dalí’s painted pictures aroused great interest in the French capital, as he also executed interesting objects of symbolic functioning and wrote poems and critical texts aimed at clarifying his paranoid-critical method, based on combining Freudian psychoanalysis with the pictorial examples of some of his colleagues. The evolution toward an “objective materialization of delirium” that characterizes Surrealism had in him one of its greatest protagonists.