Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior, in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork.
A prolific and controversial Spanish artist, Salvador Dali's name is synonymous with the Surrealist art movement. His cutting edge, avant-garde style, which included prints, drawings, sculpture, book illustration, and theater set designs, puzzled and intrigued the art world. Along with fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Miro, he is considered one of the greatest masters of twentieth century art. A skilled draftsman, he was best known for the striking and bizarre images that were executed in a nearly photorealistic style. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Sometimes called Soft Watches or Melting Clocks, the painting suggests Albert Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed. It is Dalis personal use of the world of the unconscious, based on the theories of Freud that made him famous and recurring images of burning giraffes, melting watches and other dream-like images became the artists surrealist trademarks.
His artistic repertoire also included film, fashion, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, Man Ray, Brassaï, and Cecil Beaton, among others.
When World War II started in Europe, Dalí and his wife, Gala moved to the United States where he went on to become a success and a celebrity, using his attention seeking comments and eccentric appearance to attract media attention (and pave the way for media savvy artists like Pop Artist Andy Warhol). In 1948 he and Gala returned to his homeland where Dali spent his remaining years. Salvador Dali was a wealthy artist during his lifetime and his works continue to fetch increasingly high prices in art auction houses throughout the world today.
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So sexy at 0:15!
MySensualWorld 2 months ago
There are a lot of striking pics of Dali.
CaptainBluebear08 2 years ago