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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 Miró, from 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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The Atomic Era, Salvador Dali

The Atomic Era

Salvador Dali

Print - 29.5 x 21.3 x 0 inch

$2,924

Profil du temps, Salvador Dali

Profil du temps

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 20.1 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch

$39,673

Que Font Ces Gens, Salvador Dali

Que Font Ces Gens

Salvador Dali

Fine Art Drawings - 6.1 x 3.7 x 0.1 inch

$89,472

Fecundity - Bas Relief Silver Sculpture, Salvador Dali

Fecundity - Bas Relief Silver Sculpture

Salvador Dali

Design - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0 inch

$3,252

L'ange de Port Lligat (The Angel of Port Lligat), Salvador Dali

L'ange de Port Lligat (The Angel of Port Lligat)

Salvador Dali

Print - 21.3 x 29.1 x 0 inch

$2,488

The Music, Salvador Dali

The Music

Salvador Dali

Print - 28.9 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch

$1,200

The Coach and the Flies, Salvador Dali

The Coach and the Flies

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.2 x 31.1 x 0 inch

$1,418 $1,277

The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag, Salvador Dali

The Horse that Wanted Revenge on the Stag

Salvador Dali

Print - 23.2 x 31.1 x 0 inch

$1,473

Principio de Incertidumbre de Heisenberg, Salvador Dali

Principio de Incertidumbre de Heisenberg

Salvador Dali

Print - 16.9 x 12.6 x 0 inch

$1,418

Tauromachie aux papillons (1), Salvador Dali

Tauromachie aux papillons (1)

Salvador Dali

Print - 29.9 x 21.5 x 0 inch

$1,309

Rembrandt - Portrait du peintre par lui-même, Salvador Dali

Rembrandt - Portrait du peintre par lui-même

Salvador Dali

Print - 33.1 x 24.8 x 0 inch

$4,561

The Dance, Salvador Dali

The Dance

Salvador Dali

Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch

$1,309

Velasquez The Surrender Of Breda, Salvador Dali

Velasquez The Surrender Of Breda

Salvador Dali

Print - 28.7 x 29.9 x 0 inch

$4,561

Velasquez, Les Ménines, Salvador Dali

Velasquez, Les Ménines

Salvador Dali

Print - 35 x 24.8 x 0 inch

$4,561

Raphael - Le Mariage de la Vierge, Salvador Dali

Raphael - Le Mariage de la Vierge

Salvador Dali

Print - 35 x 24.8 x 0 inch

$4,561

La Lettre from Vermeer, Salvador Dali

La Lettre from Vermeer

Salvador Dali

Print - 35 x 24.8 x 0 inch

$4,561

L'Ouraboros, Salvador Dali

L'Ouraboros

Salvador Dali

Print - 30 x 22 x 0.2 inch

$9,500

L'Ange de l'Alchimie, Salvador Dali

L'Ange de l'Alchimie

Salvador Dali

Print - 30 x 22 x 0.2 inch

$9,500

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 - 30 x 22 x 0.2 inch

$9,500

The Kiss, Salvador Dali

The Kiss

Salvador Dali

Print - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch

$1,637

Le Buste, Salvador Dali

Le Buste

Salvador Dali

Print - 15.3 x 11.1 x 0.1 inch

$1,571

Oxigeno en Marte, Salvador Dali

Oxigeno en Marte

Salvador Dali

Print - 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.1 inch

$1,309

Dali Martien Muni d'un Double Microscope, Salvador Dali

Dali Martien Muni d'un Double Microscope

Salvador Dali

Print - 39.2 x 27.4 x 0.1 inch

$3,164

The Woman Taken in Adultery, Salvador Dali

The Woman Taken in Adultery

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.7 x 12.2 x 0 inch

$1,091 $982

Pirueta de Plátano, Salvador Dali

Pirueta de Plátano

Salvador Dali

Print - 9.3 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch

$1,309

El Arcabuz Produce Monsters, Salvador Dali

El Arcabuz Produce Monsters

Salvador Dali

Print - 9.3 x 6.8 x 0.1 inch

$1,309

Aquellos armarios tinosos, Salvador Dali

Aquellos armarios tinosos

Salvador Dali

Print - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch

$1,255

The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey, Salvador Dali

The Elephant and Jupiter's Monkey

Salvador Dali

Print - 22.8 x 30.5 x 0 inch

$1,528

Capricho de Goya n°63, Salvador Dali

Capricho de Goya n°63

Salvador Dali

Print - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch

$1,964

Capricho de Goya n°7, Salvador Dali

Capricho de Goya n°7

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.5 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch

$1,964

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Tristan's Testament, Salvador Dali

Plate from 'Tristan and Isolde': Tristan's Testament

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.3 x 12.6 x 0 inch

$1,800

The Face in the Windmill, Salvador Dali

The Face in the Windmill

Salvador Dali

Print - 25.25 x 38.25 inch

$12,000

Ten of Staves, Salvador Dali

Ten of Staves

Salvador Dali

Print - 30 x 19 inch

$3,000

Vieux Faust (Old Faust), Salvador Dali

Vieux Faust (Old Faust)

Salvador Dali

Print - 15 x 11 inch

$3,000

Eléphant de Triomphe, Salvador Dali

Eléphant de Triomphe

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 20.9 x 9.8 x 5.7 inch

$46,351

Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare, Salvador Dali

Henry V, from Much Ado about Shakespeare

Salvador Dali

Print - 6.75 x 5 inch

$3,000

Pastorale, Salvador Dali

Pastorale

Salvador Dali

Print - 28.5 x 25 inch

$4,200

Surrealist King, Salvador Dali

Surrealist King

Salvador Dali

Print - 29.6 x 21.2 inch

$3,500

Faust - Marguerite Gretchen, Salvador Dali

Faust - Marguerite Gretchen

Salvador Dali

Print - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch

$3,273

Jeremiah from Our Historical Heritage, Salvador Dali

Jeremiah from Our Historical Heritage

Salvador Dali

Print - 26 x 19.88 inch

$4,500

Danseuse dalinienne, Salvador Dali

Danseuse dalinienne

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 17.5 x 8.9 x 8.1 inch

$37,971

La Quête du Saint Graal -L- Lancelot, compagnon de la Table Ronde, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Saint Graal -L- Lancelot, compagnon de la Table Ronde

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.9 x 12.9 inch

$3,666

La Quête du Saint Graal -G- Le tournoi de Galore, Salvador Dali

La Quête du Saint Graal -G- Le tournoi de Galore

Salvador Dali

Print - 17.9 x 12.9 inch

$3,273

Faust - Vieux Faust, Salvador Dali

Faust - Vieux Faust

Salvador Dali

Print - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch

$3,273

Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau, Salvador Dali

Le Bestiaire de la Fontaine - Le Cerf se voyant dans l'eau

Salvador Dali

Print - 29.9 x 22.8 inch

$3,492

Le Tricorne - Conclusion, moralité et épilogue (b), Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Conclusion, moralité et épilogue (b)

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$2,553

Le Tricorne - Le doute et la réalité (b), Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Le doute et la réalité (b)

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$3,142

Le Tricorne - Talents des deux conjoints, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Talents des deux conjoints

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$2,553

Le Tricorne - Hue Bourrique !, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Hue Bourrique !

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$2,553

Le Tricorne - Le fond du bonheur, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Le fond du bonheur

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$2,357

Le Tricorne - Une femme vue de dehors, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Une femme vue de dehors

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$3,142

Le Tricorne - Comment vivaient alors les gens, Salvador Dali

Le Tricorne - Comment vivaient alors les gens

Salvador Dali

Print - 12.7 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch

$2,357

Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques, Salvador Dali

Les spoutniks astiques elasticots statistiques

Salvador Dali

Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch

$2,500

Les Entre-plats Sodamises, Salvador Dali

Les Entre-plats Sodamises

Salvador Dali

Print - 22 x 29 x 0.2 inch

$2,500

Coeur de Fraises, Salvador Dali

Coeur de Fraises

Salvador Dali

Print - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch

$4,910

La Licorne, Salvador Dali

La Licorne

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 22.4 x 18.9 x 13.2 inch

$42,946

La femme du temps, Salvador Dali

La femme du temps

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 25.8 x 8.5 x 6.9 inch

$37,971

Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos, Salvador Dali

Le cercle visceral du Cosmos from La Conquete du Cosmos

Salvador Dali

Print - 38.5 x 27.5 inch

$4,500

Eléphant spatial, Salvador Dali

Eléphant spatial

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 37 x 16.9 x 5.5 inch

$61,277

Danse du temps II, Salvador Dali

Danse du temps II

Salvador Dali

Sculpture - 12 x 8.1 x 7.5 inch

$34,698

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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 Miró, from 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. 

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