Art and Music - Modern Masters: Salvador Dali

Salvador Domenec Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech, Marquis de Pubol (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dali was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dali­ was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dali­s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dali­ attributed his love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes to a self-styled Arab lineage, claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Dali­ was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.