he has created a Freudian world which may be partly disentangled by pathological research, but which offers at face value a striking phenomenon in contemporary painting." Have You Been Wondering?How does Salvador Dali make us more human? We learn of Dali's humanity and self ambition when he tells us, "At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing ever since." Like all of us Dali dreams of being something and like many of us, he achieves his greastest ambitions of being human. As Andre Breton, known as the founder of the surrealist movement, comments, "Dali's great originality has shown how he is strong enough to participate in events as an actor and spectator simultaneously, has succeeded in establishing himself both as judge of and party to the action instituted by pleasure against reality." How does the work of Salvador Dali contribute to the individual and society? "His work contributed a new direction to the surrealist movement," says a critic and champion of modern day art, James Thrall Soby. Some examples of Dali contrubuting to the surrealist movement are: "Un chien andalou", a short, silent film and "L'^age d' or ", a full length film with sound. These two films are the two most successful films of the surrealist movement as history notes. Dali collaborated on these films with Luis Buneul. ...
