
The first was the work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud that explored the erotic significance of dreams and subconscious imagery. In the late 1920s, two chief influences emerged that shaped his mature artistic style. Born in 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, Dalí studied art in Madrid and Barcelona, where he demonstrated masterful painting skills and experimented with several artistic styles. 23, 1989.An author, artist and provocateur, Salvador Dalí was one of the most notable figures of the Surrealist movement. In this part of his life, Dalí withdrew first in Pubol and later in his apartment near the Teatro Museo. Two years later, a pacemaker is implanted. Following the House fire in 1984, he was burned and therefore his health deteriorates. After the death of his wife Gala in 1982, Dalí's health begins to decline. This event was followed by retrospectives in Paris and London until the end of the decade. In 1974, Dalí inaugurates Teatro Museo in Figueras, Spain. In 1942 Dalí published his autobiography, The Secret Life.ĭalí is still more prolific: he writes and illustrates books, designing sets and costumes for opera, turning films, developing new theories, sculpts, draws, creates jewelry and furniture, mixing artistic techniques, his genius has no limits in the art. The Museum of Modern Art in New York gave Dali his first retrospective exhibition in 1941. Dalí exhibited in Paris for the first time (11 paintings).ĭuring World War II, Dalí and Gala settled in the United States. It will be his "surrealist muse", the inspiration of his life and his work. It was love at first sight between Dalí and this woman. During the Summer of 1929, the poet Paul Eluard and his wife Elena (Gala) visit the painter in his home in Cadaqués. He officially joined the Surrealist group.


In Paris, Dalí met Breton, Eluard, Magritte and Ernst. It's at this time that Lorca and Buñuel encounter, while during his first trip to Paris in 1926 he made the acquaintance of Picasso. He will be excluded in 1922 for inciting rebellion of the school's students. Violently disputing the ability of its professors, Dalí is expelled from the Fine Arts in Madrid. There, he perfected his knowledge of sculpture, drawing and painting. While in Paris Dadaism is at its peak, Dalí was admitted to the San Fernando Institute, the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. "All my eccentricities, all my inconsistencies are the tragic constant in my life I want to prove I'm not dead brother, but the living," he wrote. The young Salvador is also deeply troubled when he saw his name on the grave. His parents never recovered from the death of their first son, he was a genius mother confided to his son. The overprotective love they gratified their second child has encouraged the development of an unstable and selfish character.

His parents had lost their first son also named Salvador. Early on, he showed an attraction to figurative art and painting already revealing its original and inspired personality. The region of his childhood will always have a special place in his work as in his life. Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech born in Figueras, north of Catalonia. Everyone seems to know the soft watches that appear in his paintings although often the title of Persistence of Memory, escapes them - A. But everyone does not know the same way: valued as "showman" and as one of the greatest artists of this century, Dalí will be praised for his technical ability by those who know his work the most popular and appreciate its lush imagination. No one can doubt the general esteem given to Dalí: ask the man in the street to tell you a modern artist, and you can be sure that include his name.
