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Salvador Dali Was Born
Salvador Dali, a trouble-maker and a to-be artist, was born in Figueras, Spain. -
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Salvador Dali's Lifespan
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Landscape Near Figueras
Dali painted his very first painting, Landscape Near Figueras, when he was only six. As a child, Dali always had a gift for art and was therefore encouraged to become an artist. -
Education
Dali attends the National School of Fine Arts where he eventually gets himself expelled twice. The first time he was expelled was because he encouraged other students to riot. The second time he got expelled was for refusing to take an exam because he believed his teacher didn't have the right to grade him. -
Salvador Became Famous
More and more people have begun to hear of Dali after he first travelled to Paris and contacted the famous painters: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and Andre Breton. He took on the idea of surrealist painting and returned home to start painting some new and now famous art pieces. -
Time Magazine
Dali gets featured on TIME Magazine after appearing in a diving suit in an International Surrealist Exhibition in London. In his time period, Dali well-known aide in the Surrealist Movement. -
Dream of Venus
Dali creates a funhouse for the World's Fair called "Dream of Venus". In the funhouse there are two tanks: one wet and one dry. In each tank Dali creats statues and uses real people to create a surrealist image. In the tanks, the things that are depicted seem real but yet not real, like a twisted view on reality. -
Morse Collection
Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art dedicates an exhibit to Dali's Morse Collection. The paintings depict things that are melting in a desert. One of those pieces is the famous painting called Clocks that depicts melting clocks on trees and tables. -
The Teatre-Museu Dali
Salvador Dali opens up a museum called the Teatre-Museu Dali. The building is the largest surrealist object in the world. The museum was created on the ruins of the Municipal Theatre that was destroyed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. -
Salvador Dali Died
Salvador Dali dies of cardiac arrest, leaving the world with one less crazy and amazing artist. -
Why Salvador Dali is Inspiring
He may not be as inspiring to me as he is to others, but i do believe he is very inspiring. You can always feel emotions in his artwork. In a way they move you. As a person he is also very creative and different. He is abnormal which is what makes his artwork so great. Looking at how creative and different he is, inspires me to be myself and not hold back. It inspires me to be crazy and creative.
