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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in the town of Figueres, Spain. He was the son of a prosperous attorney, and spent his childhood in Figueres and at the family's summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques. At an early age, he showed a talent and love for drawing. His father encouraged him by giving him imitations of classical art. His first studio was built for him by his parents and was located in Cadaques. Before he was ten, he had already completed two impressive oil paintings. After his elementary training at the College of “los Hermanos de la Doctrina Cristiana” (in Figueres) he attended the College of “los Hermanos Maristas” for six years, and then attended another institute in the same town for his bachelor degree. He received instructions from Juan Nunez at the Figueres municipal school of drawing. His work had showed a great amount of potential that his father finally agreed for him to take painting as his career.

Dali’s painting career had just begun to prosper and was developed into many different types of art. He had won several prizes in the school of national fine arts of San Fernando in Madrid. At this time, he did not draw with bright colors, but rather he was under the


In the followings years, he painted with his different styles combined in one. His art was exhibited in a lot of museums. The last major exhibitions in Dali’s lifetime were at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1979. This show displayed at least sixty of his magnificent works of art. Then something tragic happened in his life, which made him stop paintings, his beautiful images.

The same year that Dali had joined the Paris Surrealist group, he met a woman that inspired many of his paintings. Her name was Gala Eluard. She visited him in Cadaques with her husband, the French poet, Paul Eluard. She became Dali’s lover, business manager, and the source of inspiration for many of Dali’s greatest works. They got married in 1934 and made their first trip to America together.

In 1927, his fame spread across Figueres, Spain. In 1928, he visited Paris where the Spanish painter, Joan Miro, introduced him to various members of the surrealist group. Andre Breton found this group; his movement was basically the “exploration of hidden imagination.” Dali had gradually lost all his interest in his other paintings and moved to Paris. He was appointed an official surrealist by Breton and had his first one-man show that November. Dali gave another meaning to Surrealism. According to James Thrall Soby, he b

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