Saturday, 28 January 2012

Surrealism---Salvador Dali Biography

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech is one of the famous members of the surrealism artists and he has enjoyed enduring public popularity. He was born in small town of Figueres, Spain.The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Early recognition of Dali's talent came with his first one-man show in Barcelona in 1925. He became internationally known when three of his paintings, including The Basket of Bread (now in the Museum's collection), were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928.



 The following year, Dali held his first one-man show in Paris. That year, Dali met Gala Eluard. She became Dali's lover, muse, business manager, and chief inspiration



He joined the surrealists, led by former Dadaist Andre Breton. Dali soon became a leader of the Surrealist Movement. His painting, The Persistance of Memory, with the soft or melting watches is still one of the best-known surrealist works.
As an artist, Salvador Dali was not limited to a particular style or media. The body of his work, from early impressionist paintings through his transitional surrealist works, and into his classical period, reveals a constantly growing and evolving artist. Dali worked in all media, leaving behind a wealth of oils, watercolors, drawings, graphics, and sculptures, films, photographs, performance pieces, jewels and objects of all descriptions.Dali expressed surrealism in everything he said and did. He was not just unconventional and dramatic; he was fantastic, shocking, and outrageous. Salvador Dali remains one of the great artistic innovators of all time, like Picasso, Matisse, Miro and Chagall, his place at the pinnacle of modern art history is assured.

 As important, he left for posterity the permission to explore all aspects of one’s own life and to give them artistic expression. His excellence as a creative artist will always set a standard for the art of the twentieth century.His artwork and influences can be seen almost everywhere around the world.



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