Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. Salvador Dalí died on January 23, 1989 from heart failure, also in Figueres. Dalí had an older brother also named Salvador. He was born October 12, 1901 and died nine months before his brother was born from gastroenteritis. When Dalí was five years old he was taken to his dead brother's grave and his parents told him that he was his brother's reincarnation. Dalí believed he was a reincarnation himself. Salvador Dalí put pictures of his dead brother in some of his works, including Portrait of My Dead Brother (1963). Dalí is famous for his bizarre surrealist images in his art. His painting style developed from 1929 to 1937, which produced the paintings that made him the world’s best-known Surrealist artist even though he was …show more content…
He was influenced by many Renaissance artists and is best-known for the limp melting clocks in his piece, The Persistence of Memory. In his paintings he portrayed a dream world in which common objects are bizarre and deformed. Dalí portrayed realistic objects placed in dim landscapes that were similar to his homeland of Catalonian. Dalí had many contributions besides paintings including films, sculptures, and photography. One of his important film contributions was an animated film named Destino made with Walt Disney. Also, The Spanish director named Luis Buñuel and Dalí made two Surrealistic films, Un Chien andalou and L’Âge d’or, that are both filled with grotesque images. Dalí also endorsed a host of products for French and American television commercials. He even designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo. Dalí was famous for being a painter and was in the Surrealist movement in 1939. His art style is surrealism but was part of modernism, futurism, and cubism. Salvador Dali produced more than 1500 paintings in his lifetime. Dalí's paintings became associated with the themes of man's universe and sensations, sexual symbolism, and ideographic imagery. Dalí had many symbols in his