Salvador Dali is a Spanish painter, sculptor, director, writer, and one of the founders of Surrealism. He was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain. From an early age, El Salvador was distinguished by his demeanor and character.
He painted his first picture at the age of ten. In 1921 he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando. The picture he submitted for admission is not accepted because it is small, but it is highly appreciated by experts. And they give Dali three days to present a new picture, but Salvador presents a smaller picture than the previous one. However, as an exception, Salvador is admitted to the academy for exceptional mastery. Studying in Madrid influenced the paintings he made in his early professional period, they were in a purely academic style. During this time he met Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buյուuel.
His first exhibition took place in November 1925 in Barcelona. In those years he painted only sea paintings. In 1926 he was expelled from the academy for misconduct. That year he went to Paris for the first time, where he met Picasso, Breton, and that acquaintance became the beginning of his surrealist path. From 1929 he was completely immersed in that style. It was during those years that Dali met and married Gala Eluard, who became the greatest inspiration of Dali’s later life.
Dali supported և participated in the development of surrealism, greatly promoted that style. The leaders of this style later accused him of being too selfish. Dali’s paintings of this period depict visual images and everyday objects in the form of unexpected structures, such as his famous soft watches in Stability of Memory (1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York).
In 1940, Dali left for the United States, where he lived until 1948. Dali included various sources in his art: Dutch realism, Italian Baroque, abstractionism, pop art. Dali’s later paintings, which often had a religious theme, are more classical in their style, such as the Corpus Hypercubus (1954, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and The Last Supper (1955, National Museum of Art, Washington).
Dali’s life and art became a magical fusion, which can also be considered one of Dali’s works. Salvador Dali is on display in museums in the United States and Europe in London, Basel, Glasgow, Paris, Chicago, New York, Washington, and Philadelphia.
The Dali Theater-Museum is located in Figueras, Spain. Salvador Dali is fulfilling his long-held dream by placing his unique works of art in the Old Theater building in his hometown. The official opening of the museum took place in 1974. It is noteworthy that the theater is renamed Torre Galatea in memory of Dali’s late wife Gala. The most attractive part of the structure, the transparent geodetic dome with a network structure, is a part of the outstanding architecture, which today is the symbol of both the theater and Figueras. The Dali Theater-Museum, designed by Emilio Pérez Pinero, catches everyone’s attention with a string of giant white eggs along the red walls. The body of the great artist Salvador Dali voluntarily rests in the main exhibition hall, under the floor, so that human contact with the master remains forever.
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