Salvador Dalí

SALVADOR DALÍ (full name Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol, Catalan Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquès de Dalí de Púbol, Spanish Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí y de Púbol) was a Spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, film director, and writer. He was one of the most famous representatives of Surrealism.

He worked on the films Un Chien Andalou, L'Âge d'Or, and Spellbound. He was the author of The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí, Told by Himself (1942), Diary of a Genius (1952–1963), Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution (1927–33), and the essay The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus.

He was born on 11 May 1904 in the city of Figueres, into the family of a prosperous notary. He began studying visual art at the municipal art school. From 1914 to 1918 he was educated at the Marist Brothers' Academy in Figueres. In 1916 he went on holiday to the town of Cadaqués, where he first became acquainted with modernist art. Dalí's first solo exhibition was held in 1919. In 1921 his father decided to send Salvador to Madrid to study at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, where he became acquainted with such figures of Spanish culture as Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, and Pedro Garfias.

His acquaintance with new trends in painting developed, and Dalí experimented with Cubism and Dadaism. In 1926 he was expelled from the Academy for his arrogant and disrespectful attitude toward the teachers. That same year he went to Paris for the first time, where he met Picasso. In an effort to find his own style, in the late 1920s he created