One of the most prominent representatives of surrealism - Salvador Dali was not only an outstanding painter and graphic artist, but also a sculptor, creating his creations exclusively from wax. His surrealism was always cramped within the framework of the canvas, and he resorted to three-dimensional depiction of complex images, which later formed the basis of his paintings.
Collector Isidr Klot, who once bought it from the artist wax figures, ordered bronze castings. Soon the collection of original bronze sculptures created a sensation in the world of art. Many of Dali’s sculptures were subsequently increased many times in size and became decorations not only in museum halls, but also in the squares of many cities around the world.
Salvador Dali Museum in Paris
In Paris in Montmartre there is a whole museum dedicated to this brilliant Spanish artist. Greatest Works art created in the last century arouses genuine interest among the public and cannot leave any viewer indifferent: they awaken either delight or indignation.
Dance of Time I.
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Exquisite objects and forms inspired the artist to create many unique surreal images. In this sculpture, the master replaced the wooden legs of a piano with dancing, graceful female legs. In this way, he revived the instrument and turned it into an object of pleasure for both music and dance. On the lid of the piano we see a surreal image of the Muse trying to soar above reality.
Space elephant.
Salvador Dali turned to the image of an elephant both in painting, as evidenced by the painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony”, and repeatedly in sculpture - “Cosmic Elephant”, “Rejoicing Elephant”. This bronze sculpture depicts an elephant walking on thin long legs through outer space, carrying an obelisk symbolizing technological progress. A powerful body on thin legs, according to the author’s idea, is nothing more than “the contrast between the inviolability of the Past and the fragility of the Present.”
Surreal Newton
In his work, the great Spaniard repeatedly turned to the personality of Newton, who discovered the law of universal gravitation, thereby paying tribute to the great physicist. In all the sculptures of Newton created by Dali, the apple is a constant detail, which led to the great discovery. Two large through niches in the sculpture symbolize oblivion, since in the perception of many people Newton is only a great name that is devoid of soul and heart.
Bird Man
a person is half-bird, or a bird is half-man." It is difficult to determine which part of these two dominates, because a person is not always who he appears to be. The author wants to leave us in doubt - this is his game.
Vision of an angel
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The obsession of two ideas: the flame of passion and female body with secret drawers in which the secrets of every woman are kept, Salvador Dali clearly manifested himself in the surreal sculpture “Woman on Fire”. By flame, the artist meant the subconscious passionate desire and vices of all women - current, past and future, and the drawers symbolize the conscious secret life each of them.
Snail and angel
Surreal warrior.
Surreal warrior.
Dali's surreal warrior symbolizes all victories: real and metaphysical, spiritual and physical.
Tribute to Terpsichore
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This sculpture is also called “beauty without head and limbs.” In this work, the artist glorifies a woman whose beauty is temporary, fleeting and perishable. Venus's body is divided into two parts by an egg, which creates a fantastic impression of weightlessness in the sculpture. The egg itself is a symbol of the fact that inside a woman there is a whole unknown world.
Horse under the saddle of time
The image is filled with expression, eternal non-stop movement, original freedom and insubordination to man.".!}
Space Rhino
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Spain. Night Marbella. Sculptures of Salvador Dali
Ten bronze sculptures, based on wax models of Salvador Dali sculptures, are located directly below open air on the promenade of Marbella in Spain.
High in the Pyrenees Mountains lies the dwarf state of the Principality of Andorra. Here on main street capital of Andorra la Vella you can see the original sculptural composition entitled “The Nobility of Time”, authored by Salvador Dali.
The area of the dwarf state of Andorra is only 468 sq. km. These are picturesque mountains and valleys with beautiful nature and the best ski slopes, attracting a constant flow of tourists from different countries. The capital of the Principality of Andorra la Vella is located at an altitude of 1029 meters and is the highest capital of the state in all of Europe.
The bronze sculpture of Salvador Dali was donated to the dwarf state of Andorra in 2010 by Enric Sabater, assistant famous artist, who worked with him from 1968 to 1982. Unique sculpture from a series of soft watches installed in historical center capital on Meritsel Street (Passatge Meritxell).
The five-meter sculpture “The Nobility of Time” belongs to the famous series of melting clocks by Salvador Dali, which personify the passage of time. It depicts a melted clock hanging on a tree - one of the favorite symbols in the artist’s work. Upper part The dial is topped with a crown and symbolizes the power that time has over a person. Magnificent work by one of the most bright artists In the 20th century, Salvador Dali became a popular attraction in the city of Andorra la Vella and the entire dwarf state of Andorra.
Fears and fetish of a genius - symbolism of Dali
Having created his own, surreal world, Dali filled it with phantasmagorical creatures and mystical symbols. These symbols, reflecting the master’s obsessions, fears and fetish objects, “move” from one of his works to another throughout his creative life.
Dali’s symbolism is not accidental (just as everything in life is not accidental, according to the maestro): being interested in Freud’s ideas, the surrealist came up with and used symbols in order to emphasize hidden meaning their works. Most often - to indicate the conflict between the “hard” bodily shell of a person and his soft “fluid” emotional and mental filling.
Symbolism of Salvador Dali in sculpture
The ability of these creatures to communicate with God worried Dali. Angels for him are a symbol of a mystical, sublime union. Most often in the master’s paintings they appear next to Gala, who for Dali was the embodiment of nobility, purity and connection given by heaven.
ANGEL
the only painting in the world in which there is a motionless presence, long-awaited meeting two creatures against the backdrop of a deserted, gloomy, dead landscape
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts (Ralph Emerson)
Salvador Dali "Fallen Angel" 1951
ANTS
Dali's fear of the perishability of life arose in his childhood, when he watched with a mixture of horror and disgust as ants devoured the remains of dead small animals. From then on, and throughout his life, ants became a symbol of decomposition and rot for the artist. Although some researchers associate the ants in Dali's works with a strong expression of sexual desire.
Salvador Dali “in the language of allusions and symbols, he designated the conscious and active memory in the form of a mechanical watch and ants scurrying around in it, and the unconscious memory in the form of a soft clock that shows an indefinite time. PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY thus depicts the oscillations between the ups and downs of the waking and sleeping states.” His statement that “the soft clock becomes a metaphor for the flexibility of time” is filled with uncertainty and a lack of intrigue. Time can move in different ways: either flow smoothly or be corroded by corruption, which, according to Dali, meant decay, symbolized here by the bustle of insatiable ants.”
BREAD
Perhaps the fact that Salvador Dali depicted bread in many of his works and used it to create surreal objects testified to his fear of poverty and hunger.
Dali was always a big “fan” of bread. It is no coincidence that he used buns to decorate the walls of the theater-museum in Figueres. Bread combines several symbols at once. The appearance of the loaf reminds Salvador of a hard phallic object, opposed to the “soft” time and mind.
"Retrospective Bust of a Woman" 
In 1933, S. Dali created a bronze bust with a loaf of bread on his head, ants on his face and ears of corn as a necklace. It was sold for 300,000 euros.
Basket with bread
In 1926, Dali painted “Bread Basket” - a modest still life, filled with reverent respect for the little Dutch, Vermeer and Velazquez. On a black background there is a white crumpled napkin, a wicker straw basket, a couple of pieces of bread. Written with a thin brush, no innovations, fierce school wisdom mixed with manic diligence.
CRUTCHES
One day little Salvador found old crutches in the attic, and their purpose impressed him. young genius strong impression. For a long time, crutches became for him the embodiment of confidence and hitherto unprecedented arrogance. By participating in the creation of " Brief dictionary surrealism" in 1938, Salvador Dali wrote that crutches are a symbol of support, without which certain soft structures are unable to maintain their shape or vertical position.
One of Dali's outright mockeries of the communist love of Andre Breton and his leftist views. Main character according to Dali himself, this is Lenin in a cap with a huge visor. In The Diary of a Genius, Salvador writes that the baby is himself, screaming “He wants to eat me!” There are also crutches here - an indispensable attribute of Dali’s work, which retained its relevance throughout the artist’s life. With these two crutches the artist props up the visor and one of the leader’s thighs. This is not the only one famous work on this topic. Back in 1931, Dali wrote “Partial Hallucination. Six apparitions of Lenin on the piano."
DRAWERS
Human bodies in many of Salvador Dali's paintings and objects have drawers that open, symbolizing memory, as well as thoughts that one often wants to hide. “The recesses of thought” is a concept borrowed from Freud and means the secret of hidden desires.
SALVADOR DALI
VENUS De MILO WITH DRAWERS 
Venus de Milo with boxes
,1936 Venus de Milo with Drawers Gypsum. Height: 98 cm Private collection
EGG
Dali “found” this symbol from Christians and “modified it” a little. In Dali’s understanding, the egg does not so much symbolize purity and perfection (as Christianity teaches), but rather gives a hint of a former life and rebirth, symbolizing intrauterine development.
“Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man”
Metamorphoses of Narcissus 1937 
You know, Gala (but of course you know) it’s me. Yes, Narcissus is me.
The essence of metamorphosis is the transformation of the daffodil's figure into a huge stone hand, and its head into an egg (or onion). Dali uses the Spanish proverb “The onion has sprouted in the head,” which denoted obsessions and complexes. The narcissism of a young man is such a complex. Narcissus’s golden skin is a reference to Ovid’s saying (whose poem “Metamorphoses,” which also talked about Narcissus, inspired the idea for the painting): “golden wax slowly melts and flows away from the fire... so love melts and flows away.”
ELEPHANTS
Huge and majestic elephants, symbolizing dominance and power, are always supported by Dali on long thin legs with a large number of kneecaps. This is how the artist shows the instability and unreliability of what seems unshakable.
IN "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"(1946) Dali placed the saint in the bottom corner. A chain of elephants, led by a horse, floats above him. Elephants carry temples with naked bodies on their backs. The artist wants to say that temptations are between heaven and earth. For Dali, sex was akin to mysticism.
Another key to understanding the painting lies in the decorous appearance on the cloud of the Spanish El Escorial, a building that for Dali symbolized law and order achieved through the fusion of the spiritual and secular.
Swans reflected as elephants
LANDSCAPES
Most often, Dali's landscapes are made in a realistic manner, and their subjects are reminiscent of Renaissance paintings. The artist uses landscapes as a backdrop for his surreal collages. This is one of Dali’s “trademark” traits - the ability to combine real and surreal objects on one canvas.
SOFT MELTED WATCH
Dali said that liquid is a material reflection of the indivisibility of space and the flexibility of time. One day after eating, while examining a piece of soft Camembert cheese, the artist found perfect way express variable perception man of time - soft watch. This symbol combines a psychological aspect with extraordinary semantic expressiveness.
The Persistence of Memory (soft clock) 1931 
One of the most famous paintings artist. Gala quite correctly predicted that no one, once they saw “The Persistence of Memory,” would forget it. The painting was painted as a result of the associations that Dali had with the sight of processed cheese.
SEA URCHIN
According to Dali, the sea urchin symbolizes the contrast that can be observed in human communication and behavior, when after the first unpleasant contact (similar to contact with the prickly surface of a hedgehog), people begin to recognize pleasant traits in each other. In the sea urchin this corresponds to a soft body with tender meat, which Dali loved to feast on so much.
Snail
Like sea urchin, the snail symbolizes the contrast between external harshness and rigidity and soft internal contents. But in addition to this, Dali was delighted with the outlines of the snail and the exquisite geometry of its shell. During one of his bike rides from home, Dali saw a snail on the trunk of his bicycle and remembered the charm of this sight for a long time. Convinced that it was no accident that the snail ended up on the bike, the artist made it one of the key symbols of his work.
The article presents the sculptures of Salvador Dali, their photos, the history of their occurrence and impressions of what they saw.
Salvador Dali is not only a painter and a PR master. It turns out that Salvador Dali has wonderful surreal sculptures. Perhaps, if it weren’t for a member of my Facebook group who spoke well about the exhibition of these sculptures, I would not have paid attention to these creations. To be honest, I have never been attracted to surrealism as an art style in anything other than painting.
With all due respect to Breton, surrealist literature is similar to the delirium of a schizophasic patient. And the sculpture does not shine in this regard, although, for example, they managed to very organically introduce surrealism into sculpture.
However, Dali was able to surprise me here too - his works look elegant and original. The sculptures of Salvador Dali display the same images as in his paintings. At first, Dali simply molded his creations from wax, and then the Spanish art connoisseur Isidro Clot purchased these wax figures from El Salvador and made bronze castings from them. Subsequently, the sculptures were mostly scattered among collections and museums, but the first series remained with the Spaniard.
Sculptures of Salvador Dali, photo
Vaguely reminiscent of the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom and time - Thoth. 
A very elegant and light sculpture. Not a very typical image for Salvador Dali with his extravagant flow of the subconscious. I would call it “Ode to the Piano”. :)
And this is the image and paintings of “The Burning Giraffe”. 
Soft watches - where would we be without them? 
This is obviously the unapproachable Gala and the lover Dali. 
More, even more soft watches. 
Looks like Cupid on a snail. :)
Dali, of course, in to a greater extent an artist rather than a sculptor, however, as they say, a talented person is talented in everything. It remains to say thank you to Isidro Clot, thanks to whom these wonderful creations saw the light of day. Salvador himself would hardly have ever gone beyond his wax prototypes, which is why art would have lost a lot. I must say that I liked these sculptures even more than Dali’s paintings. The sculptures of Salvador Dali are devoid of the schizophrenic tension that is present in his canvases; they are lighter and brighter.
The fact is that Dali himself did not cast sculptures at all: there is information that in 1969 - 1972 he embodied surreal images in volume... in wax. In his house in Port Ligat (as Dali's biographer Robert Descharnes wrote), the artist sometimes went out to the pool and devoted several hours to sculpting. Well, then begins a story as old as the world about Dali’s thirst for money and promiscuity: initially, in 1973, Dali entered into an agreement with the Spanish collector Isidro Clot, who bought wax figures and made four series of bronze castings. Actually, these are the most “authentic Dali sculptures.” The collector kept the first series for himself, the rest went to travel around the world, along the way... multiplying. Already in his old age, Dali sold the rights to reproduce sculptures; they were cast many times, sometimes in an enlarged size, and that is why sometimes a “Dali sculpture” appears on the market at a relatively affordable price. Auctions Sotheby’s and Christie’s generally refused to accept “Dali sculptures” for sale for two whole years. What can we say about exhibitions of Dali’s sculptures - the images, of course, are genuine, but all of them are copies of copies. That’s why the robbers miscalculated in 2013, who, perhaps, thought to gain millions for the work stolen from the Paris exhibition - the famous “flowing clock”!
More or less originals can be considered, for example, such objects as “Venus de Milo with boxes” (1936), from which the artist Marcel Duchamp, at the request of Dali, made a casting. The plaster Venus is real. But her twin sisters of the same shape - again, “went into circulation.”
The “Retrospective Bust of a Woman”, created by Salvador Dali in 1933 for the Surrealist exhibition at Pierre Colle Gallery (Paris), is also original. On the porcelain bust of a woman is placed a loaf of bread (hat - sur!) and a bronze inkwell - an image of the painting “Angelus” by Jean-François Millet. Plus ants on the face, a paper “scarf”, ears of corn on the shoulders. Just a parody of fashion! The original of which was ruined... by Picasso's dog. The artist visited the exhibition with his pet, and the dog ate the loaf! The whole plan, literally, went down the drain... Now the “reconstruction” of the work, but with a “fake” loaf, is in the Salvador Dali Theater-Museum in Figueres.