DALI PERMANENT EXHIBITION

I personally love Salvador Dali as an artist so when I picked up a leaflet about the exhibition in Berlin, I was thrilled, as I've only seen a couple of his works in galleries, not a load in one place. It was quite expensive but I thought it'd be worth it, and it definitely was. It has a lot of artwork the public doesn't normally see, so was extraordinary looking at all these paintings, sculptures, films, illustrations etc of his all in one place. Because I've already written an essay about him, I knew all about his crazy character and the kind of things he creates. I loved looking deeply into each wonderful piece of his art and looking at the intricate detail and wondering how the hell he transfers it from mind to paper.. I would perhaps go as far as saying in my mind he is a pure genius, purely for his wide range of talent. I couldn't stop thinking how much I want to get into illustration again. For my newish project I have been drawing a fair bit, but I can't help but find it a bit more difficult this time round. I used to do it a lot, but creating big monsters from my mind isn't as easy because I'm used to observational drawing- which also I haven't done in a while. Dali makes it look so easy; especially his use of brush/pen strokes, even simple things like cross-hatching. But hey, it's all testing and trying, with time I can only get better. Doesn't stop me idolising Dali as an artist though. Shame we couldn't take any photos though as that way I would remember everything that was in there. Still, memory doesn't hurt.