My favorite artist so far

My favorite artist this semester is Salvadore Dali. On my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art I bought a book all about his works. The beginning of the book shows portraits that he has done and my favorite portrait is the one of Luis Bunuel, painted in 1924. I liked this piece so much because even though he uses dark colors everything is clearly shown. He used a lot of shading as the background and little actual painting strokes. Dali once said "Christ is like cheese, or, to be more precise, like mountains of cheese", it is said he based a decent amount of his paintings on this saying. Such as his most popular painting "The Persistence of Memory", he says the painting derived from a dream of runny Camembert and represents an image of time devouring itself and everything else around it. Another painting I really enjoyed was his "Portrait of Paul Eluard", it reminds me of the background of "The Persistence of Memory". The background is blurry with no detail, but the actual portrait of Paul Eluard is very vivid, including the lion and everything else painted into his body.