Road to Dalí

1. Are you ready to guess?
OK, let’s go then …
Observe patiently and then, answer?
This is ...
These are ...

2. What is this?
This is a grasshopper?

3. Are you ready?

4. Describe the picture
In this picture there is / are
It is …
We can see …
They are doing …
The characters are in …

5. What does a grasshopper bring
to your mind?
They make us think of life in nature.
They are not dangerous.
They don’t sting.
Sometimes they scare us because
they jump up in front of us

6. What did the painter want to
represent with it?
He / She wanted to represent …

7. From his early childhood, in
Figueres, he was terrified of
grasshoppers
In his paintings they represent
FEAR

8. What is this?
This is a soft clock

9. Describe the picture In this picture
there is / are
It is …
We can see …
They are
doing …
The characters
are in …

10. What does a clock make you
think of?
They make us think of time
Is it early or late?
We see them in places like bell towers
or stations

11. What did the painter want to
represent with soft clocks?
He / She wanted to represent …

12. One day he saw a piece of
camembert cheese melting and he
imagined soft clocks
For him, a melting clock represents
they are not eternal, time is relative,
is not important.

13. What are these?
These are elephants?

14. Describe the picture
In this picture
there is / are
It is …
We can see …
They are
doing …
The characters
are in …

15. What do elephants make you
think of?
They are beautiful and
strong animals
In India they symbolise
STRENGHT ans WISDOM

16. What did the painter want to
represent with insect legs
elephants?
He / She wanted to represent …

17. He expressed big contrast.
They are half way between
the sky and the earth: they
fly and they are heavy at
the same time.

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21. Where was he from?
He was from Catalonia.
When was he born?
He was born in 1904
Where did he live?
He lived in Catalonia, France and in
the USA

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23. What was he?
He was a famous painter, but he was
also a sculptor, filmmaker, writes,
jewelllery designer and book illustrator.
What is the name of his painting style?
It is SURREALISM

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25. HE SAID
“The only difference between a mad
man and me, is that I am not mad”

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30. Who am I?

31. Yes, it’s
me?
Salvador
Dalí