... One artist who used art to express his feelings was Salvador Dalí. Dalí referred to his work as "hand-painted dream photographs" and claiming that the majority of his imagery came directly from his own dreams. This proves he just painted his feelings and dreams, not trying to show the actual world in any way. Although he did like to promote his work, by taking part in many of the Major Surrealist Group Shows, including the International Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936 (where he performed his most well known stunt of giving a lecture in a divers suit, but the helmet got stuck and he nearly suffocated). Salvador Dalí was altogether a surrealist, although he did experiment painting in a cubist style. He also made a film with Luis Buñuel, who was a very famous film director at the time. The double images in his paintings, and the different interpretations that ...

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