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Salvador Dali was one of the greatest surrealist artists of all time. It is well known for its ability to translate dreams into art on canvas. He called these parts, hand-painted image of a dream. “In addition, Dali was a famous film director, writer and sculptor.
His birth name was Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech I, along with his brother who died before his birth. Dali used a pseudonym, Avida Dollars, which is an anagram of the name, and literally means “desirous of dollars.” Born May 11, 1904 in a small farming community called Spanish a rich family of Figueres, Dali spent much time there, home for a family holiday on the coast. This area was in Cadaques, where he had his first studio, where he made his home nearby after his marriage with his wife Gala.
Dali went to Madrid as a young man to participate in the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts His talent was recognized early, and his first solo exhibition was held in Barcelona in 1925. In 1928 he became an international star after three paintings were shown in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie International Exhibition.
In 1929, Dalí held an exhibition in Paris and joined the Surrealists. He also met Gala Eluard and her husband, a poet, the same year and became the lover and business manager of Gala Dalí, Paul Eluard and finally leaving to marry Dali.
His painting, The Persistence of Memory with the melting watches is one of the best known surrealist works, Dali and leader in the movement. Since the second world war was inevitable, apolitical Dali clashed with the Surrealists and the other was put on “trial” in 1934 and launched by the group. This does not prevent him from exhibiting in international exhibitions throughout the decade, but the time has come around 1940, it has evolved and has been painted with a new issue of religion and science.
During the Second World War, the couple left the violence in Europe and the United States spent $ 1940 -48. In 1941, Dali had his first major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the following year he published his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Also during this period, he moved into his classical period and painted 19 canvases big plus, with historic religious, scientific, or. Three of them are well known, the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and the hallucinogenic Toreador, both remain at the Museum of Modern Art, and the Sacrament of the Last Supper that hangs in the National Gallery in Washington.
Dali opened his theater and the museum that bears his name in his hometown of Figueres in 1974 and had major exhibitions in London and Paris soon after. Unfortunately, Gala died in 1982, Dalí’s health began to falter. After a fire in his house was burned and his health deteriorated further, and two years later had a pacemaker implanted. He spent most of this part of his life in solitude, and died January 23, 1989 of heart failure and respiratory complications.
It was not limited to a certain style or medium term, to Dali worked in oils, drawings, graphics, watercolors, film, photography, jewelry and objects of all kinds, and left all these things for posterity. To see the largest collection of his works, a trip to St. Petersburg, Florida, is in order. The recent opening of Salvador Dali Museum is a collection that exceeds even that of the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres.
