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 **SALVADOR DALÍ**

1. THE ARTIST'S NAME IS SALVADOR DALÍ

2. HE WAS BORN IN 1904 IN A SMALL CATALONIAN TOWN, AND DIED IN 1989. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN SPAIN.

3. DALÍ IS FAMOUS FOR HIS PARTICIPATION/ CREATION OF THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT.

4. DALÍ WAS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY OTHER SURREALISTS OF HIS TIME, ESPECIALLY MIRÓ AND TANGUY. BEFORE, HE BECAME A FAMOUS ARTIST, HE STUDIED THE TECHNIQUES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS. SALVADOR'S MOTHER ALSO MOTIVATED HIM AND GAVE HIM HIS CONFIDENCE.

5. SURREALISM CHARACTERIZES THE ARTISTS WORK. THE SURREALIST MOVEMENT WAS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EMPHASIS ON DREAMS AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS. HOWEVER, HE WAS MOST STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY PICASSO, ANOTHER FAMOUS SPANIARD ARTIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY.

6. DALÍ USUALLY MADE NUMEROUS PAINTINGS AND ALSO MADE MOVIES IN A SMALLER QUANTITY.

7. THE ARTIST WAS TOLD BY A TEACHER AT THE FIGUERES COLLEGE THAT NOT GOING OVER THE LINES WAS A KEY COMPONENT OF PAINTING WELL. WHEN DALÍ'S MOTHER PASSED AWAY, HE WAS TRAUMATIZED. THE PAIN THAT HE EXPERIENCED FROM LOSING HER NEVER FADED. WHEN DALÍ MOVED TO MADRID TO STUDY IN THE SAN FERNANDO SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, HE FOUND THAT THE CITY OFFERED A LIBERAL ENVIRONMENT AND NOURISHED HIS INCLINATION TOWARD DREAMY WORKS OF ART. HE ALSO MET BUNUEL HERE. ON A TRIP TO PARIS HE AND PICASSO, HIS ARTISTIC FATHER-FIGURE, ARRANGED A MEETING AND PICASSO EXPRESSED HIS INTEREST IN SALVADOR'S STYLE OF ART. DALÍ MET GALA, A WOMAN 10 YEARS HIS SENIOR, AS WELL AS THE UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE OF HIS LIFE. SHE INFLUENCED HIS WORK, SHOWING UP IN MYRIAD OF HIS WORKS, HIS LIFE, AND HIS FINANCES--SHE WAS HIS WIFE, MUSE, AND MANAGER.

8. THE MOST FAMOUS WORK CREATED BY THIS ARTIST IS //T////HE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY//.

9. WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT DALÍ IS THAT HIS WORK IS REALISTICALLY PAINTED ALTHOUGH THE SUBJECT AND THEMES ARE SURREAL. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CLOCKS MELTING IN THE //PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY// ARE VERY LIFELIKE ALTHOUGH THE EVENT IS UNLIKELY. HIS WORK ALSO HAS A VERY DREAMLIKE FEEL TO IT AS IF ONE IS CATCHING A GLIMPSE OF HIS DREAMS OR ONE'S OWN SUBCONSCIOUS.

10. WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS THAT SALVADOR PAINTS REALISTICALLY, DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE IS A SURREALIST. IT ACTUALLY BECOMES ADVANTAGEOUS FOR HIM, BECAUSE TH SURREAL EVENTS DEPICTED IN HIS WORK ARE MORE BELIEVABLE BECAUSE HE MAKES IT SEEM SO REALISTIC AND TANGIBLE. I ALSO FIND HIS OBSESSION WITH GALA INTERESTING.


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Works Cited

Nerét, Gilles. __Salvador Dalí__. Los Angeles: Taschen, 2007.

The Salvador Dalí Society. 2008. The Salvador Dalí Society. 25 May 2009. .

COURTENEY KIM