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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.
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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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2026· 32 entries
El Periódico: Cuando Walt Disney fue a buscar a Salvador Dalí a Cadaqués
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Mutual Art: Salvador Dalí | Vision of Venice (Gondola) (1976)
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Mutual Art: Salvador Dalí | Le ciel se Mercure (1960)
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Artsy: Mythology: Pegasus (1964) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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ArchDaily: Galería de En Construcción: Museo Salvador Dalí / HOK + Beck Group - 2
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Clarin.com: Dumbo, la película que salvó a Walt Disney: la extraña colaboración de Salvador Dalí y el homenaje de Spielberg
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Artsy: Fleurs Surréaliste Gala's Bouquet (1980) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Yahoo: Quote of the day by Salvador Dalí: "Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it"
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Artsy: Les Songes Drôlatiques de Pantagruel, Planche XXIII (1973) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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OkDiario: Salvador Dalí, pintor y escultor del siglo XX: «La única diferencia entre un loco y yo es que yo no estoy l...
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Artsy: "Space Elephant" (1971) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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BroadwayWorld: REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALÍ MAKE ME HOT to Open Sound Theatre Company Season
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EL PAÍS: La nueva vida del Bus Palladium, la sala parisina que frecuentaban Salvador Dalí y Mick Jagger
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Artsy: Les Pios Nonoches from the Les Diners de Gala portfo… (1971) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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El Cierre Digital: Los grandes amores de Federico García Lorca a los 90 años de su muerte: De Salvador Dalí a su último y trágico romance
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Collater.al Magazine: When Alice fell down Dalí’s surrealist rabbit hole
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Artsy: Aphrodite (1965) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Artsy: Love's Labour's Lost (1970) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Artsy: L'unicorne laser désintégre les cornes de rhinoceros… (1974) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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Artsy: La Botte violette (The Violet Boot) (1969) by Salvador Dalí - For Sale
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NDTV Food: Harsh Goenka Shares How Salvador Dali Used Art To Avoid Paying Restaurant Bills
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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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The Guardian: Lamine Yamal a genius ‘like Dalí or Michelangelo’, says Spain’s De la Fuente
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2017· 1 entry
Career landmark: exhumation.
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2003· 1 entry
By Baker Bloodworth and Walt Disney's nephew Roy E
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1989· 17 entries
Died 1989-01-23.
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“I will be so brief I have already finished”
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“Opis: po spotkaniu z Salvadorem Dalím.”
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“Opis: w liście do Luisa Buñuela, gdy poprosił go o pomoc (50 dol. na czynsz za mieszkanie).”
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“Proszono mnie czasem, abym wyjaśnił, czym jest metoda paranoiczno-krytyczna… Przyznaję jednak, że wtedy sam jeszcze nie wiedziałem dokładnie, na czym polega ta słynna, odkryta przeze mnie metoda. „Przerosła” ona „moje zdolności pojmowania” i, jak wszystkie ważne rzeczy, które „popełniłem”, dopiero kilka lat po tym, jak stworzyłem jej podstawy, zacząłem ją rozumieć.”
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“Piękno jest tylko sumą świadomości naszych zboczeń.”
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“Nie obawiaj się doskonałości. Nigdy jej nie osiągniesz!”
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“Opis: odmowa skierowana do agenta ubezpieczeniowego.”
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“Jestem katalońskim chłopem, zespolonym z duszą mojego kraju. Nigdy się nie zdarzyło, żebym po miesięcznym tutaj pobycie nie odzyskał tellurycznej siły, która pozwala mi trwać jak skała i jak ona opierać się wszystkim burzom i wszystkim pokusom…”
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“Dali nigdy niczego nie czyta! On wrzuca je na wagę i jeśli ważą dużo, Dali jest szczęśliwy.”
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“Często śniłem o Hitlerze, podobnie jak inni mężczyźni śnią o kobietach.”
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“Sardele, które przeżuwam, mają w sobie coś z ognia, jakim płonę. W moim ciele mieszka geniusz. Zmusza mnie to do zwracania bacznej uwagi na rozkosze stołu; poddaję się więc przymusowi i jestem posłuszny tej „Świętej Inkwizycji”… Wszystko zaczyna się w ustach i poprzez nerwy szuka drogi do ciała.”
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“Malując ten obraz [Widmo libido], miałem na celu znalezienie synonimu [malarskiego] dla Freudowskiej ikonografii. Obraz przedstawia mnie w wieku sześciu lat, trzymającego skamieniały seks i obserwującego niezwykle zastraszający i halucynacyjny kataklizm, lepki i biologiczny, wiecznej kobiecości.”
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“Jedyną rzeczą, jakiej świat nigdy nie ma dość, jest przesada.”
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“Kocham Galę bardziej niż matkę, bardziej niż ojca, bardziej niż Picassa, a nawet bardziej niż pieniądze.”
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“Opis: Madonna na obrazie Dalíego miała twarz jego żony.”
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“Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.”
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1986· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1986).
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1982· 1 entry
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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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
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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1979· 1 entry
One of his fellow academicians stated that he hoped Dalí would now abandon his "clowneries"
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1974· 1 entry
With Dalí in the role of the protagonist
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1972· 1 entry
Dalí began to write the scenario for an opera-poem called Être Dieu (To Be God)
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1971· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1971).
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1968· 2 entries
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 stated that on Franco's death there should be no return to democracy and Spain should become an absolute monarchy
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1965· 1 entry
Dalí met Amanda Lear, a fashion model then known as Peki Oslo
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1964).
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1960· 2 entries
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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1958· 3 entries
Dalí completed Crisalida, a temporary installation promoting a drug, which was exhibited at a medical convention in San Francisco
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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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1955· 2 entries
Dalí met Nanita Kalaschnikoff, who was to become a close friend, muse, and model
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Delivered a lecture at the Sorbonne, arriving in a Rolls-Royce full of cauliflowers
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1950· 1 entry
Dalí created a special "costume for the year 2045" with Christian Dior
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1949· 2 entries
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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1948· 3 entries
Dalí and Gala moved back into their house in Port Lligat, on the coast near Cadaqués
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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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1946· 1 entry
Dalí worked with Walt Disney and animator John Hench on an unfinished animated film Destino
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1945· 2 entries
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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1944· 1 entry
With less critical and commercial success
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1943· 2 entries
Under pressure from the State Department
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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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1941· 1 entry
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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1939· 2 entries
Dalí praised Catholicism and the Falange and was expelled from the Surrealist group
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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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1936· 4 entries
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 avoided taking a public stand for or against the Republic
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1935· 1 entry
Dalí wrote a letter to Breton suggesting that non-white races should be enslaved
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1934· 2 entries
André Breton accused him of being sympathetic to Hitler and Dalí narrowly avoided being expelled from the group
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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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1931· 2 entries
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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Became involved in the Workers' and Peasants' Front, delivering lectures at meetings and contributing to their party journal
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1929· 3 entries
Dalí collaborated with Surrealist film director Luis Buñuel on the short film Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
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His political activism initially intensified
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Soon becoming one of its leading exponents
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1926· 1 entry
Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (1922–1926).
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1924· 1 entry
Was briefly imprisoned by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship as a person "intensely liable to cause public disorder"
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1922· 2 entries
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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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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1916· 1 entry
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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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-05-11.
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