Salvador Dali was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter. He was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. The Salvador Dali Paintings are best known for their striking, but bizarre images.
Salvador Dali was a skilled draftsman whose painting skills are attributed to the influence of the Renaissance masters. The Persistence of Memory, which Salvador completed in 1931, is best known among the Salvador Dali paintings.
This realism was enamoured with a Symbolist influence by 1897 as shown in Picasso paintings of a series of landscapes in non-naturalistic violet and green tones. Among his well renowned works are The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, which were already in the museum's collection and The Sacrament of the Last Supper which was in the National Gallery collection in Washington, D.C.
The Modernist period of the Picasso paintings was in 1899-1900 while his Blue period was in 1901-1904. The Picasso paintings during this Blue period were characterized by sombre depictions rendered in shades of blue and blue green, with an occasional resonance by other colours.
During World War II, Dali and Gala escaped from Europe to the United States where they spend eight years from 1940 to 1948.
His major retrospective exhibit took place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941 which was followed with the publication of The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, his autobiography in 1942. Salvador Dali posters range from scientific to historical to religious themes as he moved away from Surrealism into his classic period.
In Figueres, Spain, Dali opened a Teatro Museo in 1974 which was followed by Paris' and London's retrospectives at the end of the decade. In 1982, after the death of his wife Gala, his health also started to take a downfall. His condition deteriorated further when he was burned in a fire at his very own home in Pubol on 1984. He died in the 23rd of January, 1989 from a cardiac failure with respiratory complications in Figueres.
Salvador Dali was a skilled draftsman whose painting skills are attributed to the influence of the Renaissance masters. The Persistence of Memory, which Salvador completed in 1931, is best known among the Salvador Dali paintings.
This realism was enamoured with a Symbolist influence by 1897 as shown in Picasso paintings of a series of landscapes in non-naturalistic violet and green tones. Among his well renowned works are The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, which were already in the museum's collection and The Sacrament of the Last Supper which was in the National Gallery collection in Washington, D.C.
The Modernist period of the Picasso paintings was in 1899-1900 while his Blue period was in 1901-1904. The Picasso paintings during this Blue period were characterized by sombre depictions rendered in shades of blue and blue green, with an occasional resonance by other colours.
During World War II, Dali and Gala escaped from Europe to the United States where they spend eight years from 1940 to 1948.
His major retrospective exhibit took place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941 which was followed with the publication of The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, his autobiography in 1942. Salvador Dali posters range from scientific to historical to religious themes as he moved away from Surrealism into his classic period.
In Figueres, Spain, Dali opened a Teatro Museo in 1974 which was followed by Paris' and London's retrospectives at the end of the decade. In 1982, after the death of his wife Gala, his health also started to take a downfall. His condition deteriorated further when he was burned in a fire at his very own home in Pubol on 1984. He died in the 23rd of January, 1989 from a cardiac failure with respiratory complications in Figueres.
