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Salvador Dali was born on 11 May 1904 and is a Catalan painter, sculptor, engraver, screenwriter and writer. He is considered one of the main representatives of surrealism. The Catalonia of his childhood will always have a privileged place in his work as in his life. From a very early age, he showed an attraction for figurative art and painting, already revealing his original and inspired personality. He took private drawing lessons.

His parents had lost their first son, also named Salvador. The young Salvador was deeply disturbed when he saw his name on the grave. “All my eccentricities, all my inconsistencies are the tragic constant of my life. I want to prove that I am not the dead brother, but the living one”, he wrote. While Dadaism was at its height in Paris, Dalí was admitted to the San Fernando Institute, the Madrid School of Fine Arts.

In Paris, Dalí met Breton, Eluard, Magritte and Ernst. He officially joined the Surrealist group. In the summer of 1929, the poet Paul Eluard and his wife Elena (Gala) visited the painter in his house in Cadaqués. It was lov

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BIOGRAPHY

YOUTHFUL YEARS

1904 – Born in Figueres, Spain, on May 11; his first painting, a landscape, bears the date 1910.

1914 – Began high school studies at the Marist Brothers’ school in Figueres, where he began to take an interest in painting and was particularly influenced by Ramon Pixtox (1872-1925). For the most part, Dalí’s early works consist of landscapes and genre scenes depicting peasants and fishermen.

1921 – Dalí enrolled at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid; here he met Lorca, Buñel and Montes and was influenced by the Italian Futurists, Bonnard and Eugène Carrière.

1922 – Exhibits at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona. In Paris André Breton, together with Picasso, Max Ernst and Man Ray, founded the first Surrealist group.

1923 – Arrested for anarchist tendencies and held in jail for 35 days; developed interest in Cubism and the Italian metaphysical school (Carrà and de Chirico).

1925 – First solo exhibition in Barcelona; both Picasso and Miró show inte

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Who is Salvador Dalí?

Salvador Dalí made paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he had. He painted melting clocks and floating eyes, clouds that look like faces and rocks that look like bodies.

Sounds weird right? Think about what your paintings would look like if you painted your dreams? I bet they would be pretty weird too!

Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an art movement where painters made dream-like scenes and showed situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life. Look at this painting above – does the lake look like a fish to you?

This sculpture above is by another famous surrealist artist called René Magritte. I wonder why he has painted a head full of clouds?

Surrealist artists were influenced by a famous psychoanalyst called Sigmund Freud. A psychoanalyst is a doctor who studies the human mind and tries to understand it. Freud believed our mind was divided into two parts: the conscious part and the unconscious part. The conscious mind is what we use to make decisions every day, like whether we walk or ride a bike to school.