Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
Salvador Dali was the 20th century's most famous surrealist artist.
He was born as a son of a prestigious notary in a small town of Figueras in Northern Spain.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
In the 1920s and 1930s Dali made his reputation in Europe and the USA, influenced by the cubism of Picasso and psychological theories of Freud.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
In 1929 he met Gala. She was eleven years older than he and was a Russian immigrant, and moreover, she was married.But inspite of that Dali and Gala began living together. Dali used to call her his muse.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
In 1931 Dali wrote his best-known picture- The Persistence of Memory- a crazy landscape with strange clocks.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
``The Fase Of War``
(1940)‏
In 1940, as World War II started in Europe, Dalí and Gala moved to the United States, where they lived for eight years. During this period, Dalí never stopped painting.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
In 1969 he designed Chupa Chups logo. Also in 1969, he was responsible for designing the publicity material for the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 and created a large metal sculpture that stood on the stage at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Salvador Dali
(May 11, 1904-January 23, 1989)‏
After Gala's death in 1982 he moved to Pubol, a castle, that he had bought and decorated for Gala, where he died on January 23, 1989 from heart failure.