Salvador Dali Essay

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Salvador Dali Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born on May, 11th 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain. Dali had an older brother who was also named Salvador, who died of gastroenteritis at the age of two, one year before Dali was born. Dali’s father was a lawyer and notary. Dali’s mother was a strong supporter in his art. Dali thought of himself as the reincarnation of his dead brother. Dali said, “[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections. [He] was probably a first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute." Dali also had a sister that published a book about Salvador himself. She titled it As Seen By His Sister. In 1917 he started to visit the School of Art and created his first paintings. In 1921 his mother died of breast cancer. Dali said in response to her death, "was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul." His father remarried to the sister of his first wife. Dali loved his aunt and was not upset with the union. Dali became known as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. Dali went through fazes of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting. He eventually found his niche within the Surrealists movement in 1929. Dali was very good at publicizing himself, which made him the most famous of the Surrealist. Dali married a women name Gala. After World War II he turned away from surrealism. Most of his work was closing related to his renewed faith in the Catholic Church. He also became fascinated with the atomic physics and that showed in his work as well. Later in life he became a recluse living out the rest of his year in Paris France. His wife died in 1982 and he died in 1989. The Salvador Dali image chosen for the exhibit is The Madonna of Port

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