Salvador Dali: The Drug

            A wise and crazy artist once said, “I am not on drugs, I am drugs” That artist is no other than the great Salvador Dali.

The surrealist, Salvador Dali is a Spanish artist who changed the face of art in a huge scale. He is one of the greatest components of surreal art.  To be clear this is not a biography, this is how Dali inspired millions of people, I included.

Dali’s art is one of a kind, just like all other artist’s out there. It had created a colossal impact, because of the way he portrays life in his art. Being a surrealist, he is one unique and creative monkey. Surreal art in its movement is really hard to understand when seen through the eyes of an untrained eye, but when you look at Dali’s works of unimaginable art, you can really feel the emotion and devotion he has really put in to it.

            Being an artist myself, I have grown fond and am biased to Salvador Dali. To me he is the definition of an artist; he is a free spirited individual; he is open-minded; he is uniquely bizarre; and most of all he is weird out of context.

He is free spirited because he is able to express what he feels freely in his art. A lot of artists struggle with this. Rather than putting themselves in their art, which by the way is what matters most. Art is about trying to satisfy your feelings, not about if others might not like your art.

He is open-minded, because he accepts new concepts. He incorporates these new concepts in to his art. This only makes him an even better artist. From this, he is able to improve over time. (Though not anymore, since he is already deceased.)

He is uniquely bizarre, because again he is one of a kind. He is a person with a different view of life. He is able to read between the lines and see the grey in every black and white picture.

Lastly, he is weird. A lot of you might ask why, he is weird because he is an artist. He constructs his own world in his head. And when an artist can do this, then he has accomplished a great goal.

               By these traits, Dali reminds us all that there is an artist within us. All we need to do is give it a kick start. Let’s be weird all together.