The work of Salvador Dali is inseparably connected with Paris and its creative soul - Montmartre. The genius of Surrealism lived, loved, and created in Paris, so it is quite logical that the largest collection of Dali's works in Europe is housed in the Salvador Dali Museum on Montmartre hill. The museum's permanent exhibition consists of more than 300 masterpieces by the famous Surrealist.
Some visitors are surprised to discover Dali as a sculptor who created unusual and futuristic sculptures. But there is nothing strange about that: the artist simply lacked a two-dimensional canvas to express all his ideas through painting. The famous soft clocks depicted in Salvador's most popular paintings look even more impressive in the three-dimensional forms of sculptures.
No less interesting is the collection of engravings by the eccentric Catalan, in which Don Quixote and Alice in Wonderland appear before us in completely new images born from Dali's unique imagination.
In the best traditions of Surrealism, of which Salvador was an icon, he created in strange and non-canonical ways. For example, he painted with a piece of bread soaked in ink, a rhinoceros horn, or dipped snails into paint and let them crawl across the canvas. The results of these experiments can be seen in the Salvador Dali Museum, in whose halls the voice of the great maestro and background music can be heard - as chaotic, yet as harmonious, as his art.
