Salvador Dali, A Surrealist

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Salvador Dali was a well rounded and versatile artist who began studying in the early 1920's. After meeting artists with a strength in Surrealism his work matured rapidly and he became one of the world's best known Surrealists. His life strongly influenced his paintings and other artists past and present. Not only artists, but civilians discuss and appreciate Dali's controversial, imaginative and attention seeking creations. Blessed with an enormous talent for drawing, he painted his dreams and moods in a bizarre and precise way. He was a creative genius who worked with his feelings and emotions to compose inspiring pieces. Born in 1904, he was the son of Salvador and Felipa Domenech Dali. By 1921 he was studying in Spain. Dali won many awards and became very successful. Dali's personal life showed through his work, as did the many influences throughout his life. During his childhood, his family life was difficult. His relationship with his parents was horrible and this had an extensive influence on Salvador and his artwork. His father was opposed to his chosen occupation and by the time Salvador was twenty, his father had already disowned him. Both his mother and his father were embarrassed and disappointed by their son and his vocation (Descharnes 11-12). Not only did Dali have a traumatic childhood, he also found school boring and monotonous. He began at a small Christian school, but excelled and was sent to a larger middle class school (Descharnes 10-11). Even after disowning his son, Dali's father decided to pay for his son to attend the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts. Dali was quickly disappointed with the teaching at the Academy. He found his teachers were just discovering novelties like Impressionism, which Dali had been reading about and practicing since 1920. While at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dali was expelled, arrested and imprisoned for inciting

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