Biography of my favourite artist

My favourite artist is Salvador Dali (with an accent on the i). He was a spanish surrealist artist but also a sculptor and a screenwriter. He was born on May 11, in 1904, in Catalonia, Spain.

When Dali got his bachelor he went in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, but even if he was very gifted, he was expelled from there because he stated that no one in there was smart enough to examine him.

In 1926, he made his first trip to Paris where he met with Pablo Picasso. This one had already heard favorable reports about Dali from Joan Miro.

Three years later he came back to Paris for the shooting of "Un chien andalou" and met with the Surrealists : Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard and his wife, Gala. He had dreamed and drawed her before they met, they'll never leave eachother.

1929 had been a decisive year for him because he integrated officially the surrealist movement.

One year later, his has been considered as crazy because he wanted to kill himself.

In 1932, he went to the States for participate to his first surrealist exposition and had a triumphal sucess. Then, it's the beginning of the methode paranoid-critic which wants to cretinized the world.

After his exile to New York between 1939 and 1948, his came back to his beloved Catalonia were he drew criticism. He'll practise it until the end of his life. Late in his career, he integrated in his paintings the gigantism, the pointillism, the tachism... Well, all the possible words ended by -ism.

Dali was also interested in other arts like cinema, photography, mode or publicity. He was passioned by science and in particular by the "relativity theory" of Albert Einstein that he showed in the painting "The Persistence of Memory", most known as the "melting clocks".

In 1982, Dali became Marquis of Pùbol and lived in the castle that he offered to his wife ; unfortunnetly, she died the same year, destroying the artist. In 1984, a fire broke out in his bedroom, in unclear circumstances.

On January 23, 1989, he died of an heart failure, at the age of 84, and was burried in the crypt of his Teatre Museu in Figueres.

Some of Dali's most known paintings :

-The Dream

-The Persistence of Memory

-Metamorphosis of Narcissus

-The Hallucinogenic Toraedor...

Some of Dali's most know creations :

-The Chupa Chups logo

-Rinoceronte vestido con puntillas

-The Mae West room...