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Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
entertainment · Spanish surrealist artist (1904–1989) · painter · sculptor · writer · actor · film director · screenwriter · photographer · film actor · scenographer · illustrator · also Salvador Dalí, Dalí
Born 11 May 1904 · Died 23 January 1989 · Q5577
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Un Chien Andalou (1929)
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El Economista: El paseo marítimo que convierte la costa en un museo al aire libre: diez esculturas de Salvador Dalí frente al Mediterráneo
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Artsy: Grenade et l’ange (Pomegranate and Angel) (1969) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Nueva Alcarria.com: Los bomberos extinguen un incendio en un local junto al parque Salvador Dalí
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Artsy: Leda (1965) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Artsy: Hypnos (1963) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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CatalunyaPress: El derrumbe de la Escuela Salvador Dalí obligará a reubicar a todos los alumnos al inicio del curso
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APD Noticies: Las pruebas técnicas obligan a evacuar a toda la escuela Salvador Dalí de Figueres tras hundirse solo el gimnasio
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MutualArt: Salvador Dalí | Adam and Eve hide from God (Genesis 3:8) (1985)
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Artsy: Le Singe et le Léopard (The Monkey and the Leopard) (1974) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Career landmark: exhumation.
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By Baker Bloodworth and Walt Disney's nephew Roy E
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Died 1989-01-23.
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“Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.”
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“I will be so brief I have already finished”
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19861 item
Won Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1986).
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King Juan Carlos bestowed on Dalí the title of Marqués de Dalí de Púbol (Marquess of Dalí de Púbol) in the nobility of Spain, Púbol being where Dalí then lived
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (1981).
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At age 76, Dalí's health deteriorated sharply and he was treated for depression, drug addiction, and Parkinson-like symptoms, including a severe tremor in his right arm
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One of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries"
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With Dalí in the role of the protagonist
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Dalí began to write the scenario for an opera-poem called Être Dieu (To Be God)
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Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1971).
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Dalí stated that on Franco's death there should be no return to democracy and Spain should become an absolute monarchy
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Dalí bought the Castle of Púbol for Gala, and from 1971 she would retreat there for weeks at a time, Dalí having agreed not to visit without her written permission
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Dalí met Amanda Lear, a fashion model then known as Peki Oslo
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1964).
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19602 items
André Breton unsuccessfully fought against the inclusion of Dalí's Sistine Madonna in the Surrealist Intrusion in the Enchanter's Domain exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp in New York
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Dalí began work on his Theatre-Museum in his home town of Figueres
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When he gave a lecture in Paris using a 12-meter-long baguette an illustrative prop
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Wrote in his Anti-Matter Manifesto: "In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud
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Dalí completed Crisalida, a temporary installation promoting a drug, which was exhibited at a medical convention in San Francisco
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Delivered a lecture at the Sorbonne, arriving in a Rolls-Royce full of cauliflowers
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Dalí met Nanita Kalaschnikoff, who was to become a close friend, muse, and model
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Dalí created a special "costume for the year 2045" with Christian Dior
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Breton coined the derogatory nickname "Avida Dollars" (avid for dollars), an anagram for "Salvador Dalí"
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Painted a study for The Madonna of Port Lligat (first version, 1949) and showed it to Pope Pius XII during an audience arranged to discuss Dalí's marriage to Gala
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Publicly supported Franco's regime and announced his return to the Catholic faith
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Where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments
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Dalí and Gala moved back into their house in Port Lligat, on the coast near Cadaqués
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Dalí worked with Walt Disney and animator John Hench on an unfinished animated film Destino
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Dalí created the dream sequence in Hitchcock's Spellbound, but neither Dalí nor the director was satisfied with the result
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Created the dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's film Spellbound
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With less critical and commercial success
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Dalí continued his attack on the Surrealist movement, writing: "Surrealism will at least have served to give experimental proof that total sterility and attempts at automatizations have gone too far and have led to a tot
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Under pressure from the State Department
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The Director of Exhibitions and Publications at MoMA wrote: "The fame of Salvador Dalí has been an issue of particular controversy for more than a decade
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After creating a window display for Bonwit Teller, he became so enraged by unauthorized changes to his work that he pushed a display bathtub through a plate glass window
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Dalí praised Catholicism and the Falange and was expelled from the Surrealist group
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Dalí avoided taking a public stand for or against the Republic
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At the premiere screening of Joseph Cornell's film Rose Hobart at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City, Dalí knocked over the projector in a rage
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At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War
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Dalí took part in the London International Surrealist Exhibition
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Dalí wrote a letter to Breton suggesting that non-white races should be enslaved
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Dalí was subjected to a "trial", in which he narrowly avoided being expelled from the Surrealist group
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André Breton accused him of being sympathetic to Hitler and Dalí narrowly avoided being expelled from the group
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Became involved in the Workers' and Peasants' Front, delivering lectures at meetings and contributing to their party journal
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Dalí painted one of his most famous works, The Persistence of Memory, which developed a surrealistic image of soft, melting pocket watches
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His political activism initially intensified
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Soon becoming one of its leading exponents
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Dalí collaborated with Surrealist film director Luis Buñuel on the short film Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
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Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (1922–1926).
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Was briefly imprisoned by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship as a person "intensely liable to cause public disorder"
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Dalí moved into the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students' Residence) in Madrid and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts)
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Began what would become a lifelong relationship with the Prado Museum, which he felt was, 'incontestably the best museum of old paintings in the world
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And also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation trip to Cadaqués with the family of Ramon Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris
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Born 1904-05-11.
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Won Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia.
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Career landmark: Participated in De Calder à Koons, Bijoux d'Artistes, La Collection Idéale de Diane Venet (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in Scultura Aurea (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in Documenta III (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in dOCUMENTA (13) (tournament / event).
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