History of Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali is known as one of the most well known artist of all time. Through thick or thin he never let anyone stand in the way of himself and his art. His artwork expressed his imagination, creativity, and life like events that took place that affected his emotions. These attributes of his paintings is what made him the worlds best known surrealist artist. Salvador Dali also had a strong political opinion which affected his paintings during certain time periods. So Dali did not just paint things off spur of the moment, he took experiences and opinions and added a very different but fascinating twist to them. Some of Dali's friends would even say that he had a very flamboyant personality, but also had a very mischievous behavior.

Biography

Salvador Dali was born on May 11th, 1904. He was born in a small town in Figueres, Spain. When he was old enough his father enrolled him in a state primary school, but his father soon figured out that Salvador was not fit for public school. His father then enrolled him in a Hispano-French School of Immaculate, where he learned the language of French which was soon to become his cultural background. Salvador then began to go to the outskirts of his town and do group exhibitions and take different lessons with different art teachers. He soon began to figure out the style best fit for his imagination and culture. In the year of 1920 Salvador's father told him that he needed to go to Madrid to study Fine Arts. Salvador agreed to go. In 1922 Salvador received his first award in Barcelona for his piece of artwork called Market. But then things went down hill for a couple of years. In 1923 Salvador was expelled from art school for starting a protest against one of the other painters in the class. But at the end of 1924 he was granted to come back to the school and he was also granted another year of education. Then in 1925 Salvador presented his first individual artwork. After he rejected the vanguard, he did not return to the school where he was studying art from until 1926. Through his journeys to different art exhibitions, he ran into other famous artist such as Pablo Picasso. Salvador then began to realize what he was interested in, so toward the end of 1926 Salvador returned to art school to specifically focus on painting.

Accomplishments

Salvador began to be awarded and received awards pretty much as soon as he started into art school. In the year of 1922, only a couple of months after he started art school, he received his first award. His artwork called Market won the University Vice-Chancellor's prize. Although Salvador was expelled from art school for a year, he still continued to make art and go to exhibitions. Salvador even rejected the vanguard because he was determined on questing for a pictorial tradition, only an Italian one though. To do this Dali was making artwork such as Yellow Manifesto which people said was a fierce attack on conventional art. Salvador didn't only do artwork. In 1937 Dali worked on a script for a film entitled Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Although this film was never actually produced, he still showed interest in making a film. Also Salvador would design things such as the Dream of Venus pavilion, which was presented in the world fair of New York. So even when he wasn't going to exhibitions and fairs, his artwork was still being recognized all over the world at a variety of events.

More Facts about Salvador Dali

At the start of World War II Salvador and his girlfriend Gala moved to the United States to get away from the war. In New York there would be plays and shows, although Salvador did not participate in the actual play, he designed all of the sets and costumes for the play.

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