Asher Ross, Cole Zucker, Chris Kim, Adam Mullinax Salvador Dali was born in Figures, Spain on May 11, 1904. Figueres is located in the northwestern part of Spain in an area also known as Catalonia. His parents first son, also named Salvador, died 9 months before Salvador was born. His parents were so distressed about Salvadors death that they named Salvador after their first son. This greatly affected Salvadors mental development. From the beginning of Salvadors social life he was a strange child and was always craving attention. Many things scared him such as grasshoppers, which were a subject for future paintings such as The First days of Spring. Then, after he was out of school he still did strange things to attract attention.
One time for instance, he showed up in a limousine full of cauliflowers, and another time he lectured a class on art while wearing a deep-sea diving suit. Dali attended the San Fernando academy of Fine Arts in Madrid as a young man. With his first one-man show, held in Barcelona in 1925, Dali became initially recognized. After the third Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928 Dali gained international fame. After his success in Pittsburgh, Dali joined the Paris Surrealist Group. In 1928 Dali also met his muse, lover and future wife: Gala Eluard.
Dali met Gala when she and her husband visited him in Cadaques. Gala became the inspiration for many paintings and later in 1928 they were married and went to America. Dali became one of the leaders of the surrealistic movement after he finished his most famous work The Persistence of Memory in 1931. At this time many of Dalis eccentricities came out into the open. For instance, Dali believed that aliens fro outer space sent him ideas through his mustache. Dali also had many other strange eccentricities.
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During WWII Dali and his wife fled to America and there Dali painted the work enigma of Hitler. After WWII the Dalis returned to Spain and then supported Generalissimo Franco. From 1950 until 1982 when Gala died Dali lived happily with her painting and sculpting. After Gala died however, Dalis health started to deteriorate. He was severely burned in 1984 when Galas Castle caught on fire. Then two years later he had a pacemaker installed.
Most of the years from 1982 until his death in 1989 were spent in seclusion. Today Salvador Dali is buried under the Dali Museum in Figueres. During his life Dali sculpted, painted, wrote and even produced two films: An Andalusian Dog and The Golden Age. Salvador Dali was the most renowned surrealist of the 20th century until his death in 1989.
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