Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was a skilled artist who integrated several forms of art styles together to make his own form. His form of art was made up of surrealism, where an artist brings things from their life and paints them, and the renaissance style in which the art was more traditional.

Salvador Dali was born in the small town Figures, Spain, on May 11, 1994. Dali lived in a farming area even though his father was a lawyer. Dali had a close bond with his mother because of the support she gave him, and the way she encouraged him to continue. As a child, Salvador Dali attended art classes which improved his drawing. At the age of five, his family took him to the grave of his deceased older brother, and told him he was the reincarnation, causing his strange style of art to begin. That year his father set up a showing of Dali's art, which consisted of several paintings.

Dali lived here until he became a young adult and moved to Madrid, Spain. Here he attended college, the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in which he spent his time developing his artistic skills. Salvador Dali became famous when he had his first one-man show with several of his early paintings such as The Basket of Bread.

During this time he followed surrealism in which he drew what was in his subconscious. After college Dali met Gala Euard, with whom he worked with, and later on fell in love with, though she was married. She began to influence much of his artwork causing his paintings to become much more extreme. He became a leader of the Surrealist movement because his famous painting, The Persistence of Memory. In addition to being inspired by Euard, Dali began to bring his Spanish culture into his work, influenced by the work of Picasso and Raphael.

When War World 2 came about Dali began to challenge the Surrealist movement, and in exchange was expelled. He escaped to America right before the Civil War with his wife Gala Euard. Here he was rewarded with an exhibition of his artwork in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to his exhibit Dali produced his own autobiography and titled it, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali's paintings began to have scientific, historical, and religious themes. Some of his famous paintings from this period are The Hallucinogenic Toreador, and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Here he was rewarded with an exhibition of his artwork in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the National Gallery, in Washington D.C.

After WW2 Dali came back to Spain and opened up his own museum in his birthplace, of Figures, Spain. Soon after, his wife, Gala Euard passed away, resulting in health problems for Salvador Dali. After five years of seclusion and sickness Dali passed away, on January 23, 1989.

Dali will always be remembered for his art, especially his painting, The Persistence of Memory. This