Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Spanish artist, was born in Catalonia. His paintings, depicting Freudian dream symbols with brilliant draftsmanship and imagination, express “surrealism” more exactly than any other art form. These works, along with his personal showmanship, have made him world-famous, and have made “Daliesque” a well-known adjective.
Salvador Dali studied at the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts, where his experiments were too extreme for the faculty. He exhibited first at Barcelona in 1925, and became a sensation. He went to Paris, where he became a friend of Picasso and Miro, and began his consummate interest in Freudian psychology.
Dali has lived mainly in the United States since 1940. his most famous paintings are “The Persistence of Memory”, which shows melted watches in an eerie beach setting, and a portrait of his wife. He has designed memorable ballet scenery and costumes.
~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1779.
You can visit the memorial page for Salvador Dali.
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