salvadore Domingo Felipe Jacinto Lilly
Dominic commonly known as just Salvador
Dali was a Spanish painter sculptor
engraver set designer and writer
considered one of the top
representatives of surrealism he was
born on May 11 1904 in Figure is the
province of Girona very close to the
French border raised in the middle of a
bourgeois family his father a lawyer had
a very strict personality unlike his
wife Filipa who encouraged young
Salvador's artistic interests Dali had
an older brother also named Salvador who
died when he was only seven years old
nine months before Daly's birth this
event really marked the artist who saw
himself as his brother's reincarnation
delhi also had a sister anna maria four
years younger than him always active and
artistic since he was a child he would
get it started in the world of painting
when he was just 12 years old with the
help of his father's friends the beach
shot family thanks to this family of
artists and especially thanks to rahman
peachoid delhi discovered Impressionism
following bachata advice Kelly's father
enrolled him in painting classes in 1919
only 14 years old Italy participated in
a collective art exhibition with many
local artists and when he was in twelfth
grade he edited the monthly magazine
studium with some friends in February
1921 Daly's mother Philippa passed away
due to cancer a terrible blow for him
after her death his father got married
with Philebus sister something Delhi
never approved off when he turned 18
Dilip moved to Madrid student residence
to study at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts of San Fernando there he met other
future celebrities of Spanish art such
as Federico Garcia Lorca in Lisbon well
very soon the Li caught everyone's
attention not only because of his
paintings but also because of his quirky
and dandy works he would flaunt long
hair with sideburns as well as coats
socks and gaiters which made him look
like a Victorian era
in 1923 he was expelled from the Academy
after being accused of leading a student
protest he would then return to Figueres
where he received his classes with Huang
Union who taught him the art of
engraving in autumn he would return to
the Academy where he would be forced to
repeat a year this is a time when
delivery tected avant-garde art and
started looking for a pictorial
tradition primarily Italian the year
after he didn't go back to the san
fernando academy in a spend his vacation
with Federico Garcia Lorca in Caracas
Dali was expelled from the Academy once
again in 1926
shortly before taking his final exams
after declaring that nobody in the
Academy was suitable to examine him he
then travelled to Paris for the first
time where he would meet one of his
idols Pablo Picasso moreover this city
would witness how de leeuw surrealism
flourished as well as his signature
mustache inspired by Velasquez something
that would stay with him for the rest of
his life
virgin meadow he was introduced to the
group of surrealist headed by and
revered on in the film an Andalusian dog
collaboration with rich women was shown
in the French capital in August 1929 he
met his muse and future wife gala named
Elena
Ivanova Nadia Canova when she was born
she was a Russian immigrant 11 years
older than him and at the time she was
with the French poet Pole and Locke his
relationship with gala was a finalist
draw that ended permanently the lease
relationship with his father which was
pretty deteriorated already 30 aire de
lis continued exhibit in his art
regularly as a professional and
officially joined the surrealist group
established in the Parisian neighborhood
of Montparnasse for the next two years
his work pralines learned the direction
of surrealism the Golden Age the second
movie created in collaboration with
women premiered at a Studio 28 in Paris
they also published the book the visible
woman which collected several texts
previously published in different
magazines at the beginning of the
thirties Dahle finds his very own art
style a combination of avant-garde and
traditional art
dollie is completely immersed in
surrealism and becomes entirely devoted
to be a painter in 1931 he created one
of his most famous paintings the
persistence of memory also known as the
melting watches in 1934 he takes part in
the exposition d cinquantenaire at paris
great palace without taking into account
the opinion of the other surrealist who
decided not to participate doing this
almost made the Lea be expelled from the
group that year he arrived to the United
States thanks to the art dealer Julian
Levy and the exhibition of some of his
work raised a huge stare in all of New
York in December 1936 the Time magazine
dedicated a cover to him with a photo
taken by Man Ray Dalio
also participated in the fantastic art
Dada surrealism exhibition of the moment
in New York in February of the next year
he met the Marx Brothers in Hollywood
and I started to work on the script of a
new movie first called giraffes on
horseback salad and then changed to the
surrealist woman
unfortunately this movie was never
produced dalian gala later returned to
Europe an in London Stefan his wife
introduced him to Sigmund Freud in 1939
in the Metropolitan Opera House of New
York The Ballad bacchanal premieres with
scraped wardrobe and props by Salvador
Dali
that same year Britain published the
article the most recent trends in
surrealist paintings which meant the
lease expulsion from the surrealist
group within coercion of German troops
in Bordeaux Delian gala moved to the
United States where they lived until
1948 that's when his interest in jeweled
design would start and continued
throughout his career he would move to
Hollywood in 1945 to work with Alfred
Hitchcock and the dreamlike sequences of
the movie spellbound and in 1945 Walt
Disney hired him to help in with the
production of the movie Testino back in
Catalonia
Delia starts a mystical Plus nuclear
time in his life characterised by him
treating religious subjects as well as
subjects related to scientific
breakthroughs at the time
show in a special interest tours
breakthroughs related to nuclear fusion
and efficient a Dean of his career Delhi
didn't just paint as he developed new
projects that made his popularity as an
eccentric and crazy even more he curated
a newsletter and became one of the
pioneers in artistic holography in 1965
deontological exhibition Salvador Valley
1910 1965 opened at the MoMA in 1968
Dali filmed a TV ad for the chocolate
brand Lanvin and in 1969 he designed a
logo for Chupa Chups that same year he
worked as the creative director for your
visions promotional campaign and created
a huge metallica sculpture which was
installed in the states of material
theater moreover on April 1st 1970 he
announced the creation of a museum in
figueres which opened its doors four
years later in 1982 Wonka blew the first
granted him the title of Marquis of the
Liverpool after galas death tally was
devastated he died in figueres on
January 23rd 1989 at 84 years of age to
you to a heart attack after enduring a
drawn-out agony tally a genius and a
renown figure extravagant and fascinated
both in his work as in his life is the
most popular representative of
surrealism in the world and one of
Spain's most universal artists
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