Salvador Dali
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Salvador Dali
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The second son of a middle class lawyer and notary, Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dali had an older brother and months before Dali’s birth, his older brother was a victim of gastroenteritis causing his death. Dali believed that he was his brother’s reincarnation as a result of his father’s constant faith. Salvador Dali discovered his fascination for modern painting while he attended drawing school. With the help of his father, he had his first exhibition of his charcoal drawings in his family. Three years later, his mother, who encouraged her son artistic endeavors, was a victim of breast cancer causing her death. This encouraged Salvador Dali to leave Catalonia and move to Madrid and studied at a school of fine arts called Academia de San Fernando. Dali Started to get attention as an eccentric and dandy because of the way his physical appearance looked. He became good friends with poet Federico Garcia Lorca that developed something special between them. Carles Fages de Climent, gave Dali the opportunity for his first book illustration, this included his schoolmate poem "Les bruixes de Llers”. While attending school, Dali believed that no one was good enough examine him causing his expulsion from the school of arts. He developed his painting skills and were shown on the Basket of Bread, which was one of his first paintings and made him travel to Paris for the first time to meet with artist Pablo Picasso, who Dali admired, and had favorable recommendations from Joan Miro. Many of Dali’s works are influenced by these two artists.
Dali was easily identified by his long mustache that became his iconic trademark of his physical appearance and it was inspired by Diego Velazquez’s seventeenth century master piece. In 1929, Dali became part of the surrealism group in the Montparnasse in Paris, making his first collaboration on Luis Buñuel’s short film Un Chien Andalo. Dali was...
(Artist)
The second son of a middle class lawyer and notary, Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dali had an older brother and months before Dali’s birth, his older brother was a victim of gastroenteritis causing his death. Dali believed that he was his brother’s reincarnation as a result of his father’s constant faith. Salvador Dali discovered his fascination for modern painting while he attended drawing school. With the help of his father, he had his first exhibition of his charcoal drawings in his family. Three years later, his mother, who encouraged her son artistic endeavors, was a victim of breast cancer causing her death. This encouraged Salvador Dali to leave Catalonia and move to Madrid and studied at a school of fine arts called Academia de San Fernando. Dali Started to get attention as an eccentric and dandy because of the way his physical appearance looked. He became good friends with poet Federico Garcia Lorca that developed something special between them. Carles Fages de Climent, gave Dali the opportunity for his first book illustration, this included his schoolmate poem "Les bruixes de Llers”. While attending school, Dali believed that no one was good enough examine him causing his expulsion from the school of arts. He developed his painting skills and were shown on the Basket of Bread, which was one of his first paintings and made him travel to Paris for the first time to meet with artist Pablo Picasso, who Dali admired, and had favorable recommendations from Joan Miro. Many of Dali’s works are influenced by these two artists.
Dali was easily identified by his long mustache that became his iconic trademark of his physical appearance and it was inspired by Diego Velazquez’s seventeenth century master piece. In 1929, Dali became part of the surrealism group in the Montparnasse in Paris, making his first collaboration on Luis Buñuel’s short film Un Chien Andalo. Dali was...