Salvador+Dali

=Salvador Dali=

Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dali i Domenech, Marquis of Dali de Pubol, otherwise known as Salvador Dali, was born on May 11, 1906 in a small town called Figueres, Spain. He claims that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. His father was a middle-class lawyer. He was a Spanish painter in the early 1900's who started when he was only eight years old. He also was involved in drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, and film. //The Persistence of Memory// was his best known work and it was completed in 1931. Being highly imaginative made a lot of his work magnificent.

The Renaissance masters and their work were a huge influence on Dali, but his paintings weren't quite what people had seen before. A lot of his artwork is hard to understand, because it's done in a new style called surrealism. Surrealists created art - literature, theatre, paintings, and sculptures - that took elements from dreams, subconscious, and imagination to present the world with new ideas and ways at looking at things. Surrealists often work with lots of symbolism, like Dali's famous "soft watches," which he felt suggested Einstein's theory that time is relative and not fixed.

However, his eccentric manner and public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork did. He was full of wacky ideas and never failed to surprise - like showing up to movie premiers with a limousine full of cauliflowers, giving a talk about his artwork to the press while wearing a deep-sea diving suit, or, most interesting of all, claiming that his mustache was an antenna used to receive messages and talk to outer space aliens.

He died on January 23, 1989 ( 1989-01-23 ) at age 84, ending entertainment for the public and for the people who were interested in his work.