Biography of Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dali that his full name was Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech born in Figueras province of Gaona Spain in 1904 and Figueras Spain died in the same place in 1989.

He was a Spanish painter and artist, who stood out for his symbolic works and for being one of the greatest representatives of the surrealism, his works were famous worldwide in addition to having ventured into different arts:

• Painting
• Scenographer
• Writer
• Sculpture
• Recorded

Even being one of the best representatives of surrealism, he dabbled in modern art, cubism and Dadaism.

Salvador Dalí, was the second child of three from the marriage of Salvador Dalí Cusi and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. His father was a bourgeois lawyer and his mother a fairly traditional housewife.

Salvador Dalí was born nine months after the death of his older brother, who also bore the name Salvador Dalí, and at one point Given, when he was five years old, according to him on occasion, his parents told him that he was the reincarnation of his brother passed away.

In his childhood, Salvador Dalí had great emotional conflicts before this information, even saying that his brother and he were like two drops of water, but with different reflections.

His approach to art was due to Ramón Pichot, who also convinced his father to enter him into the painting school, so between the ages of 12 and 13 he was already entering school learning from Professor Juan Nunez.

At Salvador Dalí School, he stood out for being a very self-centered and even vain person, highlighting always from among the other companions, both because of the way he dresses and because of his daily attitude and way of think.

His mother died when Salvador Dalí was just 14 years old due to cervical cancer, an aspect that directly altered his personality, because he had been very close to his mother.

When Salvador Dalí studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, he had other famous people of the time as his housemates, such as Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca.

Later the nuptials of his father with his aunt, (his mother's sister) produced a seism with his father, which would later increase when in 1929 he knew and wanted to marry Gala, (Elena Ivanovna Diakonova), a woman eleven years older, and who was previously the wife of the painter Paul Éluard.

In this same year, with only 25 years old, Salvador Dalí already ventured as a professional performing exhibitions, at this time Salvador Dalí joined the surrealist group, which was based in Montparnasse.

It is here precisely where the one who was coined as his particular method arose "the paranoid-critical method”

Year 1929, the break with his father.

This was an event that greatly revealed the character of Salvador Dalí, the conflict began in the press, where a comment in which it was said that in a portrait exhibited by him of the sacred heart of Jesus, there was an inscription that said:

"Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait to entertain myself"

This fact made his father ask for a public excuse, to which Salvador Dalí flatly refused.

It is said that he was violently driven from his house and disinherited by his father. And Salvador Dalí in response (according to what is told) gave him a condom containing his semen, which had attached a note that said:

"With this I no longer owe you anything"

Later his fame grew mainly by venturing into other branches of painting and other arts, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, Salvador Dalí and his and his wife Gala, with whom he had contracted civil marriage, put his residence in New York, where he held parties, events, and presentations in addition to having created museums.

Exhibitions

Salvadaor Dalí made multiple exhibitions, both in France, Spain and the United States, something that greatly increased his fame, interviews and exhibitions rained down. Already in 1948 Dalí and Gala returned to Spain.

Nuptials

On August 8, 1958, Gala and Salvador Dalí were married for the church in the sanctuary of the angels near Girona, in Sant Martí Vell.

In 1982 King Juan Carlos 1st of Spain granted him the rank and title of Marquis of Púbol y Figueras, and in this same year his wife Gala died, an aspect that totally affected, she Gala, died on June 17, 1982, it is said that this caused a great depression in Salvador Dalí, a depression that produced apparent attempts to suicide.

First.- In the year of 1982, almost when Gala died, and provoked dehydration occurred, claiming that it was a way of entering a state of suspended animation.

Thesecond.- This happened in 1984 when, for apparently accidental causes, a fire broke out from which he escaped unharmed, and he is finally transferred to his residence in Figueras.

His last works were questioned, precisely because of the presumption that his patron made him sign canvases to create works in his name.

He finally passed away in 1989, and almost a month before his death he was visited in hospital by King Juan Carlos I, who congratulated him and revealed her appreciation for his subgenre art, finally on January 23, 1989, at 84 years old he passed away.

Alternate data:

1.- Salvador Dalí's sister wrote a book titled Dalí Seen by Her Sister in 1949, which apparently was the only book she wrote.

2.-Salador Dalí, boasts his great influence in the short film the Andalusian horse by Luis Buñuel, (known from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), where his influence argues that it is evident.

3.- He ventured into television with interviews, where he confessed that if he were to marry again, he would be with his wife, his Gala. In addition to having been interviewed by television greats such as:

• Jacobo Zabludowsky (renowned and prominent Mexican reporter)
• Joaquín Soler Serrano (renowned and prominent Spanish reporter)
• Paloma Chamorro (Renowned Spanish reporter dedicated to art)

4.- Salador Dalí, boasts his great influence in the short film the Andalusian horse by Luis Buñuel, (known from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), where his influence argues that it is evident.

5.- Salvador Dalí gave all his belongings and art to the Spanish state, creating his museums and galleries.