Salvador Dali was a great surrealist artist. His paintings were dream like and tended to have no perspective to them.
Check out this website to see his work and learn about him.
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
2006-08-17 11:43:53
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answered by Anonymous
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The info given by the one ahead of me plus:
Salvator Dali,is well known for his surrealistic images influenced by the Renaissance Masters.
His famous artwork is the Persistence of Memory. His eccentricity as most artists are well known for overshadow his works. He did a lot of paintings, sculpture and participated in a small cartoon with Walt Disney released in 2003 for which he received an Academy Award posthumously.
2006-08-17 11:34:57
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answered by rosieC 7
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Salvador Dali was an artist. Mostly paintings, I think he was considered an Expressionist. I think.
He has some really famous paintings, very surreal. Oh ahd he was most recognizeable by the black cane he always used and by his thin protruding bklack mustache that were styled to point outwards. Just type in his name in a search engine and you'll see him yourself!
2006-08-17 11:29:45
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answered by coletteraubal 1
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Salvador Felip Jacint Dalà Domènech (Catalan) (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), written in Spanish as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalà Domènech and known popularly as Salvador DalÃ, was a Spanish-Catalan artist who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century.
2006-08-17 11:24:54
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answered by Bog woppit. 7
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Salvatore Dali great Spanish painter born in 1904 died in 1989.
You will find lot of information on this site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_DalÃ
2006-08-17 11:28:56
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answered by Anonymous
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SALVADOR dali is an amazing painter. he painted the persistence of memory-a very famous surrealist painting of clocks that represent the passing of time, death, etc. you may have seen it before. i'm sure if you 'google' him, you'll find some great information. (note the sarcasm in the word 'google'..what has the world come to these days?)
2006-08-17 11:27:35
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answered by all the same eternity 2
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Do you mean Salvador Dali?
Yes, he was one of the most amazing surrealist painters.
You've been given a lot of good information, but I'd like to add tha name of his wife and inspiration : Gala.
You can find her in a lot of his paintings and if you can, look for their love story, because it's great !!!
2006-08-19 14:00:59
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answered by Susana C 3
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SalvaDOR Dali was one of the greatest surrealist painters ever to grace a canvas.
Do some google research.
Persistence of Memory is one of my fave works by him.
TFTP
2006-08-17 11:27:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Salvador Felip Jacint Dalà Domènech (Catalan) (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), written in Spanish as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalà Domènech and known popularly as Salvador DalÃ, was a Spanish-Catalan artist who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. A skilled draftsman, he is best known for his surrealist work identified by its striking, bizarre, dreamlike images. His painterly skills were influenced by the Renaissance masters. His best known work is The Persistence of Memory, completed in 1931. In addition to paintings, his artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and an Academy Award-winning short cartoon which he collaborated on with Walt Disney released posthumously by The Walt Disney Company in 2003.
An artist of great imagination, Dalà had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes overshadowed his artwork in public attention
Much more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
2006-08-17 11:25:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Eugenio Salvador Dalà was with out doubt, a genius. At the age of 14 exhibit his works to critics, often was (and is still some times), misunderstood. When 22 meet Picasso and also was fired from the art school. Few years latter begun to be part of Paris surrealist´s group and there, start the relationship with Gala, that will go on until 1982 when she died. At the age of 79 Dalà painted his last work and past away in 1989 at the age of 85.
DalÃ, Salvador (1904-89): Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting, he joined the Surrealists in 1929 and his talent for self-publicity rapidly made him the most famous representative of the movement. Throughout his life he cultivated eccentricity and exhibitionism (one of his most famous acts was appearing in a diving suit at the opening of the London Surrealist exhibition in 1936), claiming that this was the source of his creative energy. He took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia'. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually aware at the back of one's mind that the control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended. He claimed that this method should be used not only in artistic and poetical creation but also in the affairs of daily life. His paintings employed a meticulous academic technique that was contradicted by the unreal `dream' space he depicted and by the strangely hallucinatory characters of his imagery. He described his pictures as `hand-painted dream photographs' and had certain favorite and recurring images, such as the human figure with half-open drawers protruding from it, burning giraffes, and watches bent and flowing as if made from melting wax (The Persistence of Memory, MOMA, New York; 1931).
In 1937 Dalà visited Italy and adopted a more traditional style; this together with his political views (he was a supporter of General Franco) led Breton to expel him from the Surrealist ranks. He moved to the USA in 1940 and remained there until 1955. During this time he devoted himself largely to self-publicity; his paintings were often on religious themes (The Crucifixion of St John of the Cross, Glasgow Art Gallery, 1951), although sexual subjects and pictures centring on his wife Gala were also continuing preoccupations. In 1955 he returned to Spain and in old age became a recluse.
Apart from painting, DalÃ's output included sculpture, book illustration, jewellery design, and work for the theatre. In collaboration with the director Luis Buñuel he also made the first Surrealist films---Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930)---and he contributed a dream sequence to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945). He also wrote a novel, Hidden Faces (1944) and several volumes of flamboyant autobiography. Although he is undoubtedly one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, his status is controversial; many critics consider that he did little if anything of consequence after his classic Surrealist works of the 1930s. There are museums devoted to DalÃ's work in Figueras, his home town in Spain, and in St Petersburg in Florida.
2006-08-17 11:30:50
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answered by farolito 4
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