Salvador Dalí

Dali was born in 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia, and studied art in Madrid and Barcelona, where he displayed masterful painting skills and experimented with many artistic styles.

In 1929, Salvador Dali burst onto the art scene and remained prominent until his death six decades later.

Dali produced some of the most famous surrealist paintings between 1929 and 1973, including “The Persistence of Memory” (1931). A dream-like landscape is depicted in the painting in which common objects are deformed and displayed bizarrely and irrationally. Watches and hard objects seem limp and melting in the desolate landscape. He seamlessly combines reality and imagination in the painting in order “to systemize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Dali’s paintings emphasized religious themes reflecting his fascination with the supernatural.

Throughout his late career, the artist continued to produce paintings, sculptures, and objects, while working on a variety of projects. In addition to publicity stunts, he was known for attracting a lot of attention with his outrageous behavior for decades. Dali died because of heart failure on January 23, 1989, in Figueres, Spain.