Life of Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí, better known as Salvador Dalí, was a painter, sculptor, designer, writer and filmmaker Spanish born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí he was best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His paint skills where influence of Renaissance masters like Picasso, Magritte, and Miro . His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also includes film, sculpture, and photography.
Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in the town of Figueres, a province of Gerona in the Empordà region close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí's older brother, also named Salvador, had died of gastroenteritis, nine months before he was born, on August 1, 1903. His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary. He was a strict disciplinarian; however, his wife Felipa Domenech Ferrés, encouraged their son's artistic talent. Dalí also had a sister, Anna María, who was three years younger. As time went by, both his parents strongly supported his artistic talent, they built him an art studio before he entered to school. Dalí's parents sent him to drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. He was not a serious student, he often got distracted in class and he would stand out as unconvention, wearing odd clothing and long hair. After that first year at art school during vacation he traveled to Cadaques and met Ramon Pichot a local artist who frequently visited Paris. There he discovered modern painting. 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 Theater in Figueres in 1919. When Dali was 16 years old his mother died of breast cancer in 1921. Dali was devastated. After her death, Dali’s father got married with his sister in law.
In 1922, Dalí moved into the
Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in the town of Figueres, a province of Gerona in the Empordà region close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí's older brother, also named Salvador, had died of gastroenteritis, nine months before he was born, on August 1, 1903. His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer and notary. He was a strict disciplinarian; however, his wife Felipa Domenech Ferrés, encouraged their son's artistic talent. Dalí also had a sister, Anna María, who was three years younger. As time went by, both his parents strongly supported his artistic talent, they built him an art studio before he entered to school. Dalí's parents sent him to drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain in 1916. He was not a serious student, he often got distracted in class and he would stand out as unconvention, wearing odd clothing and long hair. After that first year at art school during vacation he traveled to Cadaques and met Ramon Pichot a local artist who frequently visited Paris. There he discovered modern painting. 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 Theater in Figueres in 1919. When Dali was 16 years old his mother died of breast cancer in 1921. Dali was devastated. After her death, Dali’s father got married with his sister in law.
In 1922, Dalí moved into the