Biography Of Salvador Dali, One Of The Most Influential Artists Of All Time
Dali was one of the greatest artist to enter this world, as well as being on the leading artist of the Surrealist movement. Salvador Dali was born May 11, 1904 to an Atheist father, Salvador Dali Cusi, and a catholic mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres, in Spain. From a young age it was very clear Dali had a very strong artistic abilities. Given his intelligence and artistic superiority, Dali was enrolled in the Hispano-French School of the Immaculate Conception where he then painted his earliest piece, Landscape. It was there that he learned French, which he would use a lot later in life.
In the early 1920s, Dali was accepted and attended San Fernando Academy but was expelled after just 4 years for a disagreement with professors and judges. After his expulsion he experimented with different art forms and techniques. In this exploration for art, he was introduced to surrealism through a fellow artist, Andre Breton, in Paris. Using surrealism in his art, Dali’s first solo art exhibit was put on display in Barcelona in 1925. Things take a turn when in 1934, Andre Breton and Salvador Dali began feuding , resulting in a public expulsion of Dali from surrealism by Breton in 1939, but this did not stop Dali. After the Spanish Civil War and during WW2, Dali spent majority of his time fleeing to the Americas. In New York, Dali teamed up with Alfred Hitchcock to create pieces and would later be hired by Walt Disney to do art for Destino, a disney film.
In the late 1940s, Dali returns to his homeland of Catalonia to shift his artwork from surrealism to classical. He created a 19 classical pieces of art, named Nuclear Mysticism, composed of science, history, and religion. Throughout the rest of his life he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and began working on the Teatro-Museo Dali museum in Figueres. Towards the end of his life, the rate at which Dali produced artworks slowed significantly, especially after the death of his wife, Gala. in 1984 Dali was restricted to a wheelchair after a house fire and later died January 23, 1989 from heart failure. Dali is continued to be known as one of the most influential artists of all time specifically of the Surrealism Era.
