Dalí, our surrealist painter

By Núria Terés
 
Salvador Dalí i Domènech was born 11th May 1904  in Figueres, Girona. Salvador, along with his young sister Ana Maria and his parents, used to spent time at their summer home in Cadaques. That was the time where his artistic face started to grow up. Due to his immense talent, Dalí's parents sent him to different drawing schools but he wasn't a serious student at all.  By the 1919, the young artist had his first public exhibition, at the Municipal Theatre of his hometown.

The following years, the painter was influenced by several artistic styles and painters, including Metaphysics, Cubism, Impressionism and Futurism. He also met Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, apart from cheking the work from painters like Raphael, Bronzino and Diego Velázquez.

By 1930, Salvador Dalí had become a renowned figure of the Surrealist movement, he's paitings were associated with three general themes: man's universe, sexual symbolism and ideographic imagery. In 1931, the painter produced The Persistence of Memory, perhaps his best-known Surrealist work.

In 1980, Dalí was forced to retire from painting due to a motor disorder. Nine years later, on January 23rd, in his hometown, Salvador Dalí died of a heart failure. Nowadays if you want see the most outstanding representations of his work you can visit the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres.

Whatch the video for a virtual tour of the museum and to admire some of the artist's best-known works of art.