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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter born in 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia. He showed an early talent for art and was sent to drawing school at age 12. Dali's mother died when he was 16, which had a profound impact on him. In the 1920s, he moved to Madrid to study art and became influenced by styles like Cubism, though he was eventually expelled. Dali later visited Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and other surrealists who influenced his emerging style. In 1929 he met his wife and muse Gala, who inspired much of his work and managed his career. Dali had declining health in his later years and died in 1989 after Gala's

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter born in 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia. He showed an early talent for art and was sent to drawing school at age 12. Dali's mother died when he was 16, which had a profound impact on him. In the 1920s, he moved to Madrid to study art and became influenced by styles like Cubism, though he was eventually expelled. Dali later visited Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and other surrealists who influenced his emerging style. In 1929 he met his wife and muse Gala, who inspired much of his work and managed his career. Dali had declining health in his later years and died in 1989 after Gala's

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Salvador Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, on

11 May 1904.

At an early age, Salvador Dali's parents encouraged him to produce highly


sophisticated drawings and was sent to drawing school in Figueres, Spain, in
1916.

In February 1921, Dalí's mother died of breast cancer. Dalí was 16 years old; he
later said his mother's death was the greatest blow he had experienced in his
life. After her death, Dalí's father married his deceased wife's sister. Dalí did
not resent this marriage, because he had a great love and respect for his aunt.

In 1922, Dalí moved to Madrid and studied at the Real Academia de Bellas
Artes de San Fernando where he already drew attention as an eccentric and
dandy. He was influenced by several different artistic styles, including
Metaphysics and Cubism. Dalí was expelled from the Academy in 1926, shortly
before his final exams when he was accused of starting an unrest.

Later, Dali visited Paris where he met Pablo Picasso whom he revered. Picasso
had already heard favorable reports about Dalí from Joan Miró, a fellow
Catalan who introduced him to many Surrealist friends. As he developed his
own style over the next few years, Dalí made a number of works heavily
influenced by Picasso and Miró.

In August 1929, Dalí met his lifelong and primary muse, inspiration, and future
wife Gala. She was a Russian immigrant ten years his senior. They married in
1934. In addition to inspiring many artworks throughout her life, Gala would
act as Dalí's business manager.

In 1980 at age 76, Dalí's health took a catastrophic turn. His right hand
trembled terribly, with Parkinson-like symptoms. His near-senile wife allegedly
had been dosing him with a dangerous cocktail of unprescribed medicine that
damaged his nervous system, thus causing an untimely end to his artistic
capacity.

His wife Gala died on 10 June 1982, at the age of 87. After Gala's death, Dalí
lost much of his will to live. On the morning of 23 January 1989, while his
favorite record of Tristan and Isoldeplayed, Dalí died of heart failure at
Figueres at the age of 84.

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