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Salvador Dalí, in full Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, was born May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, and died on January 23, 1989. This Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker was known for his explorations of subconscious imagery.


As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí absorbed a number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical dexterity as a painter. It was not until the late 1920s that two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style. First, his discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery. Second, his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish a “greater reality" of the human subconscious over reason. To evoke images from his subconscious mind, Dalí partook in self-induced hallucinatory states, a process he described as “paranoiac-critical". 


Upon Dalí establishing this method, his painting style matured at an extraordinary rate. Thanks to Rene Magritte and Joan Mirófrom 1929 to 1937, Dalí had produced the artworks that had earned him the title of the world's best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational manner.


The famous artist dabbled in other media as well. Alongside Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí made two Surrealist films—Un Chien Andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog) and L'Âge d'Or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images. Dalí also wrote books; perhaps the most interesting and revealing being The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942-44).


By the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of the Renaissance painter Raphael. By doing so, he was consequently expelled from the Surrealist movement. Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, fashionable shop interiors, jewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.


From 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, although he continued to explore erotic subjects, childhood memories, and themes surrounding his wife, Gala. Despite their technical accomplishments, Dalí's later paintings are not as highly regarded as his earlier works. 


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Print, Louis XVI, Salvador Dali

Louis XVI

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Adam et Eve from the Homage a Albrecht Durer Suite, Salvador Dali

Adam et Eve from the Homage a Albrecht Durer Suite

Salvador Dali

Print - 74.9 x 55.9 cm

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Print, Tancred's Choice from Marquis de Sade, Salvador Dali

Tancred's Choice from Marquis de Sade

Salvador Dali

Print - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Panorama: the Siege of Jerusalem from The Marquis de Sade, Salvador Dali

Panorama: the Siege of Jerusalem from The Marquis de Sade

Salvador Dali

Print - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Flower Magician, Salvador Dali

Flower Magician

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 55.9 cm

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Print, Le Songe d’un Alchmiste ou l’Arbre de Vie, Salvador Dali

Le Songe d’un Alchmiste ou l’Arbre de Vie

Salvador Dali

Print - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.5 cm

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Print, Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - C- Heaume de la naissance et de la mort, Salvador Dali

Les songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel - C- Heaume de la naissance et de la mort

Salvador Dali

Print - 76 x 54 cm

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Print, Don Quichotte - Don Quichotte, Salvador Dali

Don Quichotte - Don Quichotte

Salvador Dali

Print - 41 x 33 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Path to Wisdom from the Retrospective Suite, Salvador Dali

Path to Wisdom from the Retrospective Suite

Salvador Dali

Print - 57.2 x 43.2 cm

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Print, The Face in the Windmill, Salvador Dali

The Face in the Windmill

Salvador Dali

Print - 64.1 x 97.2 x 0.5 cm

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Print, Chevaux dalinéens - Cheval de labeur, Salvador Dali

Chevaux dalinéens - Cheval de labeur

Salvador Dali

Print - 68 x 50 cm

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Print, All's Well That Ens Well, Salvador Dali

All's Well That Ens Well

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.5 x 12.5 x 0.05 cm

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Print, Come Back, Sulamite, Salvador Dali

Come Back, Sulamite

Salvador Dali

Print - 40 x 25 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Venus Au Bain, Salvador Dali

Venus Au Bain

Salvador Dali

Print - 58 x 78 cm

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Print, L’exaltation mythique, Salvador Dali

L’exaltation mythique

Salvador Dali

Print - 65 x 47 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Hommage à Mercure, Salvador Dali

Hommage à Mercure

Salvador Dali

Print - 76 x 56 cm

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Print, Fontaine Fantastique (du portfolio Aranela), Salvador Dali

Fontaine Fantastique (du portfolio Aranela)

Salvador Dali

Print - 65 x 51 cm

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Print, Dionysos, Salvador Dali

Dionysos

Salvador Dali

Print - 57 x 76 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Victoire de l'homme primitif, Salvador Dali

Victoire de l'homme primitif

Salvador Dali

Print - 48 x 65 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Les Simoniaques, Salvador Dali

Les Simoniaques

Salvador Dali

Print - 34 x 26 x 0.2 cm

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Print, The Dance, Salvador Dali

The Dance

Salvador Dali

Print - 74 x 54 x 0.2 cm

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Print, The Betrothed of the King of Algarve, Salvador Dali

The Betrothed of the King of Algarve

Salvador Dali

Print - 45 x 31 x 0.1 cm

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Print, The Music, Salvador Dali

The Music

Salvador Dali

Print - 73.5 x 54 x 0.2 cm

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Print, The Dance from the series The Arts, Salvador Dali

The Dance from the series The Arts

Salvador Dali

Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm

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Print, The Shepherd, Salvador Dali

The Shepherd

Salvador Dali

Print - 57 x 38 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 11, Salvador Dali

Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 11

Salvador Dali

Print - 47 x 32.2 x 0.3 cm

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Print, Dernier Combat de Tristan, Salvador Dali

Dernier Combat de Tristan

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 31.6 x 0.1 cm

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Print, The Beloved Feeds between the Lilies, Salvador Dali

The Beloved Feeds between the Lilies

Salvador Dali

Print - 56.5 x 37.5 x 0.1 cm

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Print, The Shepherd, Salvador Dali

The Shepherd

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 38 x 0.1 cm

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Print, La Resussuscité, Salvador Dali

La Resussuscité

Salvador Dali

Print - 45.5 x 31.5 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Compère Pierre's Mare, Salvador Dali

Compère Pierre's Mare

Salvador Dali

Print - 47.5 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm

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Print, The Search for Golden Fleece, Salvador Dali

The Search for Golden Fleece

Salvador Dali

Print - 76 x 56.5 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Les Negresses, Salvador Dali

Les Negresses

Salvador Dali

Print - 38.5 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Eden, Salvador Dali

Eden

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 38 x 0.2 cm

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Print, Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 13, Salvador Dali

Dali Illustrates Casanova - Plate 13

Salvador Dali

Print - 47 x 32.2 x 0.3 cm

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Print, Le Géant Beliagog, Salvador Dali

Le Géant Beliagog

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 31.6 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Le geant Beliagog (The Giant Beliagog), Salvador Dali

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Le geant Beliagog (The Giant Beliagog)

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Isolde of the White Hands, Salvador Dali

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Isolde of the White Hands

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': The Three Bad Barons, Salvador Dali

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': The Three Bad Barons

Salvador Dali

Print - 44 x 32 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Mort de Cleopatre, Salvador Dali

Mort de Cleopatre

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm

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Print, L'Immortalitè Tetraedrique du cube, Salvador Dali

L'Immortalitè Tetraedrique du cube

Salvador Dali

Print - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm

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Print, A la Plage from the Nudes Suite, Salvador Dali

A la Plage from the Nudes Suite

Salvador Dali

Print - 55.9 x 76.2 cm

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Print, Plate IV - Dalì Illustrates Casanova, Salvador Dali

Plate IV - Dalì Illustrates Casanova

Salvador Dali

Print - 47 x 32 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Diane de Poitiers, Salvador Dali

Diane de Poitiers

Salvador Dali

Print - 57.5 x 77 x 1 cm

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Print, La mort de Cleopatra, Salvador Dali

La mort de Cleopatra

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 76 x 1 cm

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Print, Paradis perdu, Salvador Dali

Paradis perdu

Salvador Dali

Print - 64.5 x 47.7 x 0.1 cm

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Sculpture, Le Minotaure, Salvador Dali

Le Minotaure

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 45 x 25 x 15 cm

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Print, L'énigme sans fin, Salvador Dali

L'énigme sans fin

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 76 x 0.3 cm

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Print, Le grand masturbateur, Salvador Dali

Le grand masturbateur

Salvador Dali

Print - 56 x 76 x 0.3 cm

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Print, Leda and the Swan, Salvador Dali

Leda and the Swan

Salvador Dali

Print - 68 x 56.5 cm

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Print, Démon ailé (Winged Demon), Salvador Dali

Démon ailé (Winged Demon)

Salvador Dali

Print - 38.5 x 28.5 cm

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Sculpture, Venus à la Girafe, Salvador Dali

Venus à la Girafe

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 91 x 56.6 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Oedipe, Salvador Dali

Oedipe

Salvador Dali

Print - 76 x 56 x 1 cm

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Print, The Three Graces of Hawaii - Tarot: Three of Cups, Salvador Dali

The Three Graces of Hawaii - Tarot: Three of Cups

Salvador Dali

Print - 74.9 x 54.6 cm

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Print, Il y a Des Soldats (There are Some Soldiers), Salvador Dali

Il y a Des Soldats (There are Some Soldiers)

Salvador Dali

Print - 62 x 44 x 0.2 cm

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Sculpture, Lincoln In Dalivision, Salvador Dali

Lincoln In Dalivision

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 21.6 x 16.5 x 0.1 cm

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Print, Adam et Eve from the Homage a Albrecht Durer Suite, Salvador Dali

Adam et Eve from the Homage a Albrecht Durer Suite

Salvador Dali

Print - 74.9 x 55.9 x 0.5 cm

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Who is the artist?

Salvador Dalí, in full Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech, was born May 11, 1904, in Figueras, Spain, and died on January 23, 1989. This Spanish surrealist painter and printmaker was known for his explorations of subconscious imagery.


As an art student in Madrid and Barcelona, Dalí absorbed a number of artistic styles and displayed unusual technical dexterity as a painter. It was not until the late 1920s that two events brought about the development of his mature artistic style. First, his discovery of Sigmund Freud's writings on the erotic significance of subconscious imagery. Second, his affiliation with the Paris Surrealists, a group of artists and writers who sought to establish a “greater reality" of the human subconscious over reason. To evoke images from his subconscious mind, Dalí partook in self-induced hallucinatory states, a process he described as “paranoiac-critical". 


Upon Dalí establishing this method, his painting style matured at an extraordinary rate. Thanks to Rene Magritte and Joan Mirófrom 1929 to 1937, Dalí had produced the artworks that had earned him the title of the world's best-known Surrealist artist. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational manner.


The famous artist dabbled in other media as well. Alongside Spanish director Luis Buñuel, Dalí made two Surrealist films—Un Chien Andalou (1928; An Andalusian Dog) and L'Âge d'Or (1930; The Golden Age)—that are similarly filled with grotesque but highly suggestive images. Dalí also wrote books; perhaps the most interesting and revealing being The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942-44).


By the late 1930s, Dalí switched to painting in a more academic style under the influence of the Renaissance painter Raphael. By doing so, he was consequently expelled from the Surrealist movement. Thereafter, he spent much of his time designing theatre sets, fashionable shop interiors, jewelry, as well as exhibiting his genius for flamboyant self-promotional stunts in the United States, where he lived from 1940 to 1955.


From 1950 to 1970, Dalí painted many works with religious themes, although he continued to explore erotic subjects, childhood memories, and themes surrounding his wife, Gala. Despite their technical accomplishments, Dalí's later paintings are not as highly regarded as his earlier works. 

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What is Salvador Dali’s artistic movement?

The artistic movements of the artists are: Surrealist Artists, Provocative Artists, Magic Realism, Avant-garde artists, Appropriation

When was Salvador Dali born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1904