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 Dalí, photo by Carl Van Vechten, November 29, 1939 | |
| Education | San Fernando School of Fine Arts, Madrid |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Photography, Sculpture |
| Movement | Cubism, Dada, Surrealism |
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech on wheels or Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech on wheels (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known popularly as Salvador Dalí on wheels, was a Catalan-Spanish artist who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. A skilled draftsman, he is best known for his surrealist work identified by its striking, bizarre, dreamlike images. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. In addition to painting, his artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, photography, and an Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Destino," on which he collaborated with Walt Disney; it was released posthumously in 2003.
An artist of great imagination, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things 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.
Early life
Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, at 8:47 a.m. local time in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Concerning his birth, Dalí "was born at his domicile at forty five minutes after eight o'clock on the eleventh day of the present month of May." Dalí's older brother, also named Salvador, had died of meningitis three years earlier at the age of 7. His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary whose strict disciplinarian approach was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferres, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors. When he was five, Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, which
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