The 20th century has left a big mark on art. Surprisingly, against the backdrop of the newly invented cinematography, painting did not lose its position at that time, but, on the contrary, developed rapidly. Artists lived an active creative and social life, gathered in groups and circles, organized painting schools and opened the way for new trends in art.
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Perhaps the most famous "non-standard" artists of the 20th century were Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. Both were born in Spain at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and absorbed the spirit of change, which they embodied in unlimited creative freedom. Over the decades, their work is still full of undisclosed symbols and mysteries, which causes a controversial reaction from the public.
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The paintings of both Spanish geniuses are strikingly different from the canons of traditional painting, which allows uninitiated viewers to bring them closer to a conventional art form “out of this world”. However, the creative methods of Dali and Picasso characterize them as people with a unique view of the world, which is reflected in their famous canvases.
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Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso received a classical art education, but already during their studies they surprised teachers with a non-standard approach to painting. Both artists stood at the origins of modernist trends in art and, traveling around Europe, gained more and more supporters in bohemian circles. Experimenting with color, form, perspective, Picasso, together with Georges Braque, became the founder of Cubism, and Dali, not without reason, declared: "Surrealism is me."
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Pablo Picasso began his career as a portrait painter, working in the classical style, but he soon announced the senselessness of conveying the visible, real world in a painting. Hence his attempts to look at an object from different angles, depicting all its facets in the picture at the same time. This is the calling card of Cubism - many facets and angles of view of a still life and even a portrait, which is why it is not immediately possible to guess what is depicted behind bulky geometric figures. The artist seems to hint to the viewer that the inner essence is always hidden behind a pile of outer shells.
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Salvador Dali went even further from the traditional reality, highlighting his inner world. That is why his paintings are full of dreamy images and reflections of the artist's complexes and fears. Endowed with phenomenal erudition, Dali ciphered biblical and mythological motifs in his canvases, largely rethinking the traditional point of view on eternal subjects.
