Essay about Salvador Dali and Alice In Wonderland

In 1969, Salvador Dali, a surrealist painter and admirer of Sigmund Freud, appropriated John Tenniel’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Often expressing the capacity of dreams and imagination, Dali and Carroll become linked together as the center of surrealist concerns. Both men create a world where logic and reality get twisted creating an alternative universe. Dali’s expression of Alice, in a realm of unconscious, brings forward the idea of Freudian understanding. Dali’s strong use of color and symbolism in his works, while understanding Freudian Principles, represent Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland just as well as if not better than Tenniel’s illustrations. Dali’s works bring forth the idea of automatism, which†¦show more content†¦In all twelve illustrations, those provided by Dali, Alice is a simulacrum. The simulacrum, â€Å"an insubstantial form or semblance of something†, of Alice is a black silhouette jumping a rope which symbolizes the idea of paranoia and madness in wonderland (Encyclopedia Britannica). Dali’s repetitive us of Alice in each illustration further pushes the idea of paranoia. This gives a sense of being followed and creates hostility just as Alice had created between her and the other characters. Dali’s simulacrum of Alice is important because of its ability to represent wonderlands madness, as the Cheshire cat states, â€Å"we’re all mad here. I’m Mad. Your Mad†(Carroll, 58). In comparison Tenniel’s illustrations of Alice change slightly in appearance and each new appearance brings new expression. When looking at figures one and two we can see how each appearance of Alice changes in meaning. Figure one is the queen of hearts yelling at Alice and the illustration displays Alice standing upright, almost in a thinking pose curious to whom this queen is. This figure expresses Alice’s curiosity and her willingness to talk to those she doesn’t know. In figure two, cards attacking Alice, there is a complete change of expression. This figure shows Alice being courageous and standing up to her fears. The image shows the maturity of Alice over time throughout the twisted universe of wonderland. Although Tenniel’sShow MoreRelatedLewis Carroll: A Brief Biography785 Words   |  3 Pageseffecting Carroll both personal and professional. (Lewis Carroll Timeline. Shmoop. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013.) Lewis Carroll’s influences were influenced by children, but more specifically Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Oxford. Wrote the Alice stories for her and hence the name Alice. Interested in children, not specifically boys, influenced his writing. His mathematical background may have influenced his writing. Logical deposition, abnormal eating, dual personality, sleepingRead MoreThe Dada Art Movement During World War I1272 Words   |  6 Pagesrepresented feelings in a dreamlike reality to free the mind from limitations of nationalism corresponding to the things we see when we shut our eyes and drift to further unknown places. Many essential Dadaist (Max Ernst) became surrealist artist but Salvador Dali was largely well-known Their artwork was notorious for being bizarre, conjuring the idea of dream analysis by combining diverse entities within the same framework which produced illogical surreal art. This new manner of expression calledRead MoreEssay about Summary of History of Graphic Design by Meggs14945 Words   |  60 Pagesfilippo marinetti (1876-1944) when he published the Manifesto of Futurism in 1909 * broke free of the use of horizontal and vertical planes for typography * omitting capital letters, punctuation, and the use of varied word spacing * ex. Alice in Wonderland used descending type sizes and pictoral shape to construct a mouses tail Gillaume Apollinaire - Il Pleut MANIFESTO OF THE FUTURIST PAINTERS umberto boccioni (1882-1916) carlo carrà   (1881-1966) luigi russolo (1885-1947) giacomo balla