I do however really really like his work! I studied him a lot over my two years in A-Level art and influences from him were extremely common in a lot of my projects. As I said with MC Escher, I think it is amazing that he was able to put these impossibly strange structures down on canvas, as most people would have trouble even conjuring up something like this let alone being able to perfectly visualise it.
The complete lack of recognisable structure makes Dalis work perfect for our project. It's got its link back to reality and a dream like state of creation that makes his work the perfect example of Surrealism and a strong contrast to the interior structure of the museum. When I ran this by the group they had also taken a really strong liking to Dalis work, and together we looked throgh a really comprehensive collection of his paintings online called VirtualDali.com and we decided on the painting below:
"Atavistic Vestiges After The Rain". We decided on this because it has the best features of a lot of Dalis paintings in it, and ones that are very appropriate to the project. For starters it is set in a strange, unfamiliar open landscape, with the low horizon complimenting the height of the giant, water-like statue being held up by a stick and a rock. The statue is a really unconventional shape and the whole painting has got a really strong dream-like feel to it, which everyone thought was a really strong feature.
So it's finally decided! Time to finalise the storyboard, get modelling, and get animating!
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