The world's largest surrealist object

I can easily say that The Teatre-Museu Dali is one of the most interesting and inspiring museums I have ever been to. It is located in Dali's hometown Figures and contains the broadest range of works spanning his artistic career, from his earliest artistic experiences and his surrealist creations down to the works of the last years of his life. The Museum itself could be seen as a great work of Dali, everything in it was conceived and designed by the artist himself in order to offer visitors a real experience of getting inside his unique world. When entering the museum there are so many weird things about it, and nothing makes sense. You'd still appreciate the beauty of it all, but it just seems so bizarre. Later on you'd find out everything in the place is significant, and it all makes perfect sense. I was moving from one room to another being more and more convinced of how much of a genius Dali is.
After visiting his museum, I am now completely amazed by Salvador Dali. His works of art reflect an enormous diversity of techniques, materials and media: paintings, drawings, sculptures, engravings, installations, jewellery, holograms, photography and more. He has explored so many artistic styles at his time, from cubism, to renaissance and religious paintings. And finally has his own bizarre style that is so distinctive that I don't think there can be anything like it.


This is just one of the works in the museum. The story behind it is that Dali wanted to prove in front of an audience what a genius he is, and that he painted spontaneously and from insight (talk about modesty). What he did was he placed a live squid on canvas flat down on the ground. As the squid spilled its ink on the canvas, Dali moved it around with his feet and produced a painting of Beethoven.


This was the ceiling painted by Dali in one of the rooms in the museum. The main part of it is supposed to be his wife Gala and himself going up to heaven, representing that both of them will remain immortal through his paintings and works of art.