The 20th century left a big mark on art. Surprisingly, against the background of the cinema just invented, 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 directions 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. After decades, their work is still full of unsolved characters 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 the conventional art form "out of this world." However, the creative methods of Dali and Picasso characterize them as people who have a unique view of the world, which is reflected in the famous canvases.
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Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso received a classical art education, but already in the years of study surprised teachers with a non-standard approach to painting. Both artists stood at the origins of the 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 ancestor 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 declared the senselessness of the transmission of a visible, real world in a picture. Hence his attempts to look at the object from different angles, depicting all its faces in the picture at the same time. This is the calling card of Cubism - a lot of faces and angles of view on a still life and even a portrait, which is why it is not immediately possible to guess the image behind the bulky geometric shapes. The artist as if hints to the viewer that the inner essence is always hidden behind the piling up of the outer shells.
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Salvador Dali went even further from traditional reality, highlighting his inner world. That’s why his paintings are full of dream images and reflections of the artist’s complexes and fears. Endowed with a phenomenal erudition, Dali encrypted biblical and mythological motifs in his canvases, largely rethinking the traditional point of view on eternal stories.
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The works of both artists found their place not only in museums. Interestingly, the author of the well-known drawing of the dove of the world is Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali helped Enrique Bernat, the creator of Chupa Chups, to come up with the name and design of the caramel packaging.
