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Salvadore Dali's Life And Accomplishments

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Salvadore Dali was a very famous Spanish surrealist and artist during the 12th century and was one of the most recognized artist in the world. Salvadore Dali was also a successful artist in fashion, printmaking, sculpture, advertising, writing a film making. He was well known for his unique personality and his great artworks. Salvadore Dali had started doing art at a very young age. He then went to study at the academy of Madrid where he studied fine arts. Around the 1920s in Paris Salvadore Dali interacted with other famous artist such as Picasso, Magritte and Miro which then lead Salvadore Dali to his first surrealist painting. One of his most famous paintings was a surrealist painting of melting clocks with the background of a landscape in 1931. The …show more content…

Salvadore Dali had very strict parents, in his early years his mother indulged him to do art. Salvadore Dali also had a brother which was also named Salvadore Dali, he was also nine months older than Salvadore Dali. Unfortunately Salvadore Dali’s brother died of gastroenteritis when young Salvadore Dali was only 5 years old. Salvadore Dali’s younger sister was named Anna Maria.
Salvadore Dali’s art skills was strongly supported by his parents. His parents had also built an art studio for Salvadore Dali before he went to art school. In art school Salvadore Dali was rather a “weird” student as he prefers to sit and daydream, he also wore unusual clothing and had long hair. After a year Salvadore Dali discovered modern art painting in Cadaques which at that time Salvadore Dali’s family was on vacation.

Salvadore Dali was very interested in cubism, metaphyses. Salvadore Dali also started researching about classic painters such as Rapheal, Bronzino and Diego Valazquez. This was also then when Salvadore Dali was inspired to do his signature mustache. Salvadore Dali had also studied Dada.

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