AI Imagines A Salvador Dali-Designed Hotel

7 JULY, 2023

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Hotel booking website Hotel posted some interesting AI-generated images on Instagram, of a hotel with surreal-looking rooms and facades.

surreal spaces

These AI-generated images tried to recreate the bizarre and dream-like feel of Salvador Dali's paintings.

dream-like atmosphere

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AI showed objects and decoration that seem to be floating into space or jutting out of walls, reminiscent of Salvador Dali's work.  

floating melting decor

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A few striking clocks were also seen as part of the decor. Clocks are an important motif in Salvador Dali's paintings and the subject of his most famous work, "Persistence of Memory".

clocks

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Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist artist born in 1904, known for painting highly skilled and strikingly bizarre images.

salvador dali

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Surrealism was a 20th century movement in art and literature in which unrelated images and events were put together in a strange and impossible way, like in a dream.

surrealism

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Salvador Dali is one of the most popular artists to ever exist. He was a part of several TV commercials for all sorts of products like chocolate, cars, liquor, medicines.

dali's popularity

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Dali is known not only for his work but also for his eccentric ways, for his iconic moustache, his weird answers in interviews and for posing with his eyes popped open for the paparazzi. 

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dali's designs

Apart from painting, Dali also ventured into sculpture and design, out of which his Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips Sofa are the most famous.