Works by artist Salvador Dali are now for exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn about this important painter, filmmaker, and sculptor from art historian Jeff Mishur. REGISTER
Art historian Jeff Mishur discusses Dali masterpieces as "The Persistence of Memory," "Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (A Premonition of Civil War)," and "Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach." Mishur also discuss Dali's role within the 20th-century Surrealist art movement and especially the relationship between dream imagery and the artist's best known works.