Salvador dali biography information
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Salvador Dalí
Spanish surrealist artist (1904–1989)
"Dalí" redirects here. For other uses, see Salvador Dalí (disambiguation) and Dalí (disambiguation).
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| Born | Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí Doménech[a] (1904-05-11)11 May 1904 Figueres, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died | 23 January 1989(1989-01-23) (aged 84) Figueres, Catalonia, Spain |
| Resting place | Crypt at Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres |
| Education | San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, and jewelry |
| Notable work | |
| Movement | Cubism, Dada, Surrealism |
| Spouse | Gala Dalí (m. 1934; died 1982) |
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol[b][a]gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí (DA
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Salvador Dalí
(1904-1989)
Who Was Salvador Dalí?
From an early age, Salvador Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and he would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from painting.
Early Life
Dalí was born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain, located 16 miles from the French border in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle-class lawyer and notary. Dalí's father had a strict disciplinary approach to raising children—a style of child-rearing which contrasted shar
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Who is Salvador Dalí?
Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies.
Sounds weird right? Think about what your paintings would look like if you painted your dreams? I bet they would be pretty weird too!
Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an art movement where painters made dream-like scenes and showed situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life. Look at this painting above – does the lake look like a fish to you?
This sculpture above is by another famous surrealist artist called René Magritte. I wonder why he has painted a head full of clouds?
Surrealist artists were influenced by a famous psychoanalyst called Sigmund Freud. A psychoanalyst is a doctor who studies the human mind and tries to understand it. Freud believed our mind was divided into two parts: the conscious part and the unconscious part. The consci