What is Salvador Dali's painting style?

It was surreal, dreamlike, surprising, experimental and had occasional sexual themes.

Dali was influenced by the subconscious, dreams and fantasy. He used different objects, persons or animals to symbolize themes that were central to him. Themes in his paintings were physics, sexuality, fetishes, women, his mother or wife, childhood, time, war, life, death among others.

His paintings would often contain something surprising as his art isn't bound by the boundries of rationality.