Identity in SuRrEaLiSm . . .

I have decided that my final project is going to be in the style of surrealism as I find it is an interesting way of portraying identity and provoking controversy.

My final piece will be influenced by surrealist Salvador Dali who leaves people in awe after they see his paintings as they are eyes into another dimension, Dali's eyes were able to depict the impossible.

This is one of Dali's self portraits, in this portrait Dali displays himself as a piece of "fried bacon" which could be symbolic of indulgence and greed.

When he spoke about his painting he said "As the most generous of all painters I continuously offer myself as food and thus give our era the most delicious delicacies." Which clarifies that this painting is an expression of Dali's vanity and attempt to flatter himself, which says alot about his identity.

Here is one of Dali's landscape paintings, Persistence Of Memory, which is apparently inspired by time and the fact that time can run out and time can somehow be manipulated.

 And although the the painting is surreal it seams that it is trying to portray something real, as if time is a statement or wasted too often which is symbolised by clocks being located at random places within the painting.

After my research I have decided make a portrait within a landscape like Dali's apparition of face and fruit dish on a beach, but in the form of a self portrait and I will include items in the landscape that represent me.