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Christine Antonio
Salvador Dali
The artistic history of Spain was determined through foreign influence like many other cultures before it. ... One of the great artists to emanate from Spain was master surrealist, Salvador Dali.
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born on May 11,1904, in Figueres, Spain. ... Dali had a very troubled youth. ... The one that had the greatest impact on Dali’s life was the death of the infant that left deep family scars. The baby was Dali’s namesake and it disturbed him terribly to visit a grave with his own name on it. ... Dali stood out for his wealthy attire and was bullied often. ...
Dali’s very first work was an untitled landscape done in 1910. ... Dali’s lack of social attainment had no impact on his artistic forte. At the age of fourteen, Dali had his first showing at an exhibition for local artists. ... According to Dali, he was one of the greatest.
By seventeen, Salvador Dali had enrolled in an art school in Madrid to study drawing, painting and sculpture. ... Dali eventually returned to the school and was arrested shortly thereafter for his insurgent disposition. ... A year later Dali did his first solo showing and peaked the interest of Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. ... The following year, at the age of twenty-two, Dali finally got to visit Paris with his sister and his aunt. He met Picasso who became quite impressed with the work Dali showed him. ... At the age of twenty-three Dali painted his first surrealist-inspired painting, Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood. ... Salvador Dali was finally becoming a recognized painter throughout Europe.
By the age of twenty-four, Dali collaborated on the Yellow Manifesto with several artists. In it Dali continued with his defiant nature and created an anti-artistic publication that criticized the avant-garde style. ... Later that same year the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh exhibited three of Dali’s paintings. Dali was now an international artist and about to delve into the film industry.
While working on a French film in Paris, Miro introduced Dali to the Surrealist group. Through several different connections with them Dali met the woman who would eventually become his wife. In 1930 some of Dali’s works were shown in the United States at what was considered the first Surrealist exhibition and a Surrealist publication printed one of Dali’s most important texts.
Approximate Word count = 1844
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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