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In 1921, when he was 16, his mother died of a breast cancer. After her death, his father married his decesead wife’s sister.Dalí did not resent this marriage, because he had a great love and respect for his aunt.

When Dali moved to Madrid, in 1922, into the Residencia de Estudiantes (Student’s Residence) he studied at the Academia de San Fernando, a fine arts school. Dalí already drew attention as an eccentric and dandy man.

At the Residence, he became close friends with Pepín Bello, Luis Buñuel, and Federico García Lorca. The friendship with Lorca had a strong element of mutual passion, but Dalí rejected the poet's sexual advances.

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY

In The Persistance of Memory, Time is the theme, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. He said he painted this work "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality."

The Great Masturbator

He painted The Great Masturbator just before meeting Gala. His needs in Paris by that time became his grief. It’s a self-portrait where his sexual desires and fears are reflected. Among several symbols, the following ones stand out: the grasshopper, who terrified Salvador; the head of a lion alluding repressed desires; and a flower-vessel that near the chest of the woman, hopes to be filled.

The Desintegration of the Persistance of Memory

In The Desintegration of the Persistance of Memory, Dali broke the images of its famous painting “The Persistence of Memory”. He had been affected by the consequences of several wars, particularly by the destructive use of the nuclear energy.

"There's nothing this man doesn't do." Dali is hilarious, clever, adorable.

A leading painter in the surrealist movement, as we see him “The Master of Surrealism”. He was also a sculptor, a designer, worked on films (including one for Disney), experimented with photography. He was eccentric, flamboyant, exhibitionist, and wealthy.

We think that he was deeply in love with his wife Gala, he included her in most of his work, she was his adorable muse.

We had to read a lot to come to understand the meaning of the three pictures we chose for this work. At first sight we liked the colors , then we came to discover a deep level of thought, maybe too deep?

We had a great time doing this report. We have learnt quite a bit about Salvador Dali.

"Every morning when I wake up I experience exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dali”

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it"

"The difference between the Surrealists and myself is that I am a Surrealist"

Nicolás Donzis - Débora Tebovich

Salvador Dali

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New York

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Paris

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Figueres (Catalonia)

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Madrid

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Cadaqués

Love stories

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Important

Details

Historical events

Personal life

Biography

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Conclusion

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Englishblog.com

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Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, commonly known Salvador Dali, was a spanish painter who lived during the 20th century. He was born in Catalonia, Spain on May 11, 1904. He was born nine months after his older brother died of gastroenteritis. Coming from a middle-class family, his parents, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, a lawyer and notary, and Felipa Domenech Ferrés, who encouraged her son's artistic endeavors, took him, at the age of five, to his brother’s grave and told him that he was his reincarnation, a concept he became to believe.#

His sister, Ana María, was three years younger and, in 1949, published a book about his brother called “Dalí As Seen By His Sister”

His artlife started when he attended to a drawing schoolIn his young years, he attended a drawing school, and at the age of 12, he discovered modern painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaques. The next year, Dali’s father organized an exhibition in their family home. In 1919, he had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theater in Figueres.

However it was his paintings in which he experimented with Cubism that earned him the most attention from his fellow students. At the time of this early works, Dali, probably, couldn’t understand the Cubist movement. At that time, there were no Cubist artists in Madrid, so the only information he had came from magazine articles and a catalog given to him by Pichot. In 1924, although he was still unknown,Dali illustrated a book for the first time.

In 1980 Dali’s health turned very bad. Gala, his almost old wife, had been supplying him medicines which damaged his nervous system, causing the end of his artistic capacity. At the age of 76, Dali had the Parkinson-like syntomps.

In November 1988, Dalí entered the hospital with heart failure, and on December 5, 1988 was visited by King Juan Carlos, who confessed that he had always been a serious devotee of Dalí.

On January 23, 1989, while his favorite record of Tristan and Isolde played, he died of heart failure at Figueres at the age of 84, and, coming full circle, is buried in the crypt of his Teatro Museo in Figueres.

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