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Biography of Salvador DaliName: Salvador DaliBirth Date: May 11, 1904 Death Date: January 23, 1989 Place of Birth: Barcelona, Spain Nationality: Spanish Gender: Male Occupations: painter, artist Salvador Dali The Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the best-known and most flamboyant surrealist artists. Possessed with an enormous facility for drawing, he painted his dreams and bizarre moods in a precise illusionistic fashion.Salvador Dali was born May 11, 1904, near Barcelona, Spain. According to his autobiography, his childhood was characterized by fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates and resultant acts of cruelty. He was a precocious child, producing highly sophisticated drawings at an early age. He studied painting in Madrid, responding to various influences, especially the metaphysical school of painting founded by Giorgio de Chirico, and at the same time dabbling in cubism.Gradually, Dali began to evolve his own style, which was to execute in an extremely precise manner the strange subjects of his fantasy world. Each object was drawn with painstaking exactness, yet it existed in weird juxtaposition with other objects and was engulfed in an …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…around the world. After 1984, Dali was confined to a wheel chair after suffering injuries as the result of a house fire.Dali died on January 23, 1989, at Figueras Hospital in Figueras, Spain. Dali was remembered as the subject of controversy and substance, although in his last years, the controversy had more to do with his associates and their dealings then with Dali. Further Reading Dali presents a fascinating though exaggerated vision of himself in his autobiographical writings, the best of which is The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942; rev. ed. 1961). A sober but admiring study is James Thrall Soby, Salvador Dali (1941; 2d rev. ed. 1946). Robert Descharnes, The World of Salvador Dali (trans. 1962), is lavishly illustrated. More recently is Ian Gibson, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali (1998). Biographical information on Dali is available in the 1940 and 1951 issues of Current Biography. Dali's obituary appears in the January 24, 1989, issue of the New York Times. |