From the real to the surreal, Salvador Dali embodied it all.

Once he was satisfied with his abilities to mimic what he

saw in the world, he began to play with objects and space.

He comprehended, perfected and finally transcended

realism and his work became much more than paint on

canvas.



In a forward that transpersonal psychologist Ken Wilber

did for Alex Grey's book Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary

Art of Alex Grey, he stresses that "all of us possess the eye

of flesh, the eye of mind and the eye of spirit. We can

classify art in terms of which eye it mostly relies on. . . Each

of these eyes sees a different world – the world of material

objects, of mental ideas, of spiritual realities (respectively).

And each eye can paint what it sees. The higher the eye,

the deeper the art." Dali's work seems to parallel this

theory.



He began as a child genius of art. At the youthful age of 14,

his charcoal drawings patterned techniques that Claude

Monet is so renown for......

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