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Salvador
Dali
(May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a surrealist painter born at
Figueras (Catalonia). He was the son of a prosperous notary and spent
his youth in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques where his parents
built a studio for him. He showed talent for painting as a young man
and attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. |
 Salvador Dali |
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| Dali
influenced the scene with his personal flavor of surrealism. The
basis of Dali’s Work was a personally inspired system which
he called the ‘Paranoiac Critical’ method. This method
which Dali explained in the first issue of Le Surréalisme
au service de la Révolution (1930) is, he wrote, ‘a
spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the interpretative-critical
association of delirious phenomena.’ This method was really
an extension of Dali’s own fevered personality, the nature
of which he summed up when he said, at an opening on an exhibition
of his in work in 1934, ‘The only difference between me and
a madman is that I am not mad.’ Dali’s painting, Persistence of Memory (1931) is one of the best known surrealist works. He did not maintain a relationship with the Paris Surrealists for long due to personality clashes and differences in politics. In 1934 he was officially expelled from the Paris Surrealist group, but he continued to exhibit works in international surrealist exhibitions throughout the decade. In 1939 he moved to Del Monte, California. From 1949 to 1950 Dali’s art went through a MysticalInPeriod which was followed by a Nuclear Period. He called this period his “classical” style in which he was preoccupied with science, history, and religion. The Museum of Modern Art in New York gave Dali a major exhibition in 1941. He made The Sacrament of the Last Supper which is now in the collection of the National Gallery in Washington D.C. In 1974 Dali opened the Teatro Museo Dali in Figures, Spain. This was followed by retrospectives in Paris and London at the end of the decade. After the death of his wife, Gala, in 1982, Dali’s health began to fail. He lived as an invalid near his Teatro Museo and died in 1989. |
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