Everything is not as it seems,from Salvador Dal’s canvas art,people can feel like joining to the other surrealist dreamlike world.

The leader of creating the painting of surrealism movement, Salvador Dali’s oil painting can be found everywhere, he often used his dreams and visions as the source of inspiration for his artistic creations,his arts was said to be directly influenced by the Renaissance leaders themselves.Dali produced 1500 paintings in his lifetime, his most prized art is kept original by the museums in Spain.

Hand-painted oil painting,” the apotheosis of homer” reduces Homer to a broken bit of statuary, a relic, while the solid temple of the muse itself melts”… The “ethereal horse,” which may be Pegasus, casting off riders attempting to reach the stars again signals myth’s cessation as a legitimate method of contemplating humanity’s existence and signals the changing state of not only art, but also thought and reasoning as well (Platzner).

One of Salvador Dali’s great masterpiece ,”The Ecumenical Council”,it was inspired by he 1958 election of Pope John XXIII, as the pope had extended communication to Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury; the first such invitation in more than four centuries. The painting expresses Dalí’s renewed hope in religious leadership following the devastation of World War II.

Oil painting reproduction Art, “The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus” was inspired by a painting titled The Surrender of Breda by the great 17th century Spanish painter, Velazquez. Dalí repeated the image of spears from that painting on the right hand side of his work. Within these spears, Dalí painted the image of a crucified Christ, based on a drawing by the Spanish mystic Saint John. The banner that Columbus is holding bears the likeness of Dali’s wife, Gala. The gadflies and the bishop at the bottom left are a reference to a Catalan folk legend about Saint Narciso. Dali used this myth to underline the Catalan people’s strength against foreign influence and to express his patriotic devotion to his homeland’s independence. The most enigmatic element of all in this painting is a celestial sea urchin in the foreground. It was painted in the 1950s, and Dalí told the Morses that the sea urchin’s meaning would only be apparent later. In the summer of 1971, Eleanor Morse remarked that Dalí had meant the urchin to symbolize the moon and Neil Armstrong’s future first footstep on the moon. Through this symbolism, Dalí paralleled Armstrong’s moon walk with Columbus’s discovery of America, so that there was a clear continuity between the discovery of the “new world” in 1492 and the discovery of another “new world” in 1969. Now the painting is painted detailed by detailed,color by color, this masterpiece is also the great decorative art and special gift to the people who loved surrealism paintings.