Salvador Dalí

Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) known as Salvador

Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain.

painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaqués with the

family of Ramon Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris. The next year, Dalí's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theater in Figueres in 1919.

and uncontrollable child. He achieved his whims and simulation, always

wanted to stand out and attract attention. - Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. - Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork.

1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and

writings. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement.

"Self-Portrait as Mona Lisa."

Christ on the unfolding of the hypercube. At the bottom

left of Dali's wife Gala. In the background, bay Portligat. Is at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

His paintings themselves are simplified, and they long dominated by

the motive of sorrow (variations on "Pieta"). Parkinson's disease also interferes Dali painting. His most recent work ("Cockfights") are simple squiggles in which veiled body of characters - the last attempt of expression poor sick person.

heart attack. The only legible phrase he uttered during the

years of the disease, was "My friend Lorca": artist remembered the years of happy, healthy youth, when he was friends with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Dali walled body on the floor in one room of the theater, the Dalí Museum in Figueres. Artist bury it so that on the grave of people could walk.