Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, or with the known Salvador Dalí.

He was a surrealist artist. As the name surrealist, he knew the pictures beyond. Also, he draws attention with his strange mustache shape.

Who is Salvador Dalí?

He was born on May 11, 1904, in Spain and he died on January 23, 1989, in Spain. He was interested in Sculpture, Photographing, and Filming at the same time throughout his life. His best-known work is The Persistence of Memory. The work was completed in August 1931.

He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays, and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science, and his closest personal relationships.

Biography

Salvador Dalí was born on 11 May 1904 on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol, 20 in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí's older brother, who had also been named Salvador (born 12 October 1901), had died of gastroenteritis nine months earlier, on 1 August 1903. His father, Salvador Luca Rafael Aniceto Dalí Cusí (1872–1950) was a middle-class lawyer and notary, an anti-clerical atheist and Catalan federalist, whose strict disciplinary approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domènech Ferrés (1874–1921), who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors. In the summer of 1912, the family moved to the top floor of Carrer Monturiol 24 (presently 10). Dalí later attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descendants of the Moors.

Dalí was haunted by the idea of his dead brother throughout his life, mythologizing him in his writings and art. Dalí said of him, "[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections." He "was probably the first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute". Images of his brother would reappear in his later works, including Portrait of My Dead Brother (1963).

Dalí also had a sister, Anna Maria, who was three years younger. In 1949, she published a book about her brother, Dalí as Seen by His Sister.

His childhood friends included future FC Barcelona footballers Emili Sagi-Barba and Josep Samitier. During holidays at the Catalan resort town of Cadaqués, the trio played football together.

Dalí attended the Municipal Drawing School at Figueres in 1916 and also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaqués with the family of Ramon Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris. The next year, Dalí's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theatre in Figueres in 1918, a site he would return to decades later. In early 1921 the Pichot family introduced Dalí to Futurism. That same year, Dalí's uncle Anselm Domènech, who owned a bookshop in Barcelona, supplied him with books and magazines on Cubism and contemporary art.

On 6 February 1921, Dalí's mother died of uterine cancer. Dalí was 16 years old and later said his mother's death "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul." After his wife's death, Dalí's father married her sister. Dalí did not resent this marriage, because he had great love and respect for his aunt.

12 Surreal Facts about Salvador Dalí

1. Salvador Dalí started Painting in his childless.
2. Salvador Dalí wasn't a good student.
3. Salvador Dalí was trying to see hallucination.
4. Salvador Dalí was a fan of Sigmund Freud.
5. Salvador Dalí was excluded from the surrealist group.
6. Salvador Dalí worked with Walt Disney.
7. Salvador Dalí was eating cauliflower fondly.
8. Salvador Dalí got married but it was so weird.
9. Salvador Dalí joined the TV show.
10. Salvador Dalí was looking his care.
11. There is a book about the mustache of Salvador Dalí
12. Salvador Dalí was dealing with advertising, he had her own cookery book, he has his own museum and he has his own swimwear collection.

Some Works Of Salvador Dalí