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[[File:Dali_Atomicus.jpg|thumb|200px|Dali Atomicus, photo by Philippe Halsman, 1948]]
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as '''Salvador Dalí''' was a Catalan surrealist painter. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
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|birth_place = Figueres, Catalonia, [[Spain]]
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'''Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol''' (1904–1989), known as '''Salvador Dalí''' was a Catalan surrealist painter. Dalí's artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
 
His best-known work, ''The Persistence of Memory'', was completed in August 1931.
 
His best-known work, ''The Persistence of Memory'', was completed in August 1931.
  
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==Biography==
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==Publications==
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(''from  dali.com'')
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* ''[http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3581081 Babaouo, c'est un film surrealiste]'', Paris: Cahiers libres, 1932, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=e7c399e88a8aae945de4775e7d2bc2d8-0 ARG]. {{fr}}
  
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The Spanish artist, Salvador Dali, is considered one of the most impressive artists of the 20th century, not only because of his paintings but also because of his eccentric character. Dali was born in 1904 in Figures, Spain, and nine months after the death of his older brother, who was also named Salvador. At the young age of 10, Dali first began painting. It was at the age of 12 that he vacationed with an artistic family, the Pichots. Ramon Pichots was probably Dali's first role model as a painter and influenced much of his early development and interest in art. He later attended Municipal Drawing School, where he first received formal art training, learned draftsmanship, painting, and engraving from Senor Nunez. In 1917, Dali's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in their family home. A year later, in 1918, one of his drawings was published in a Catalan magazine, Patufet. Dali was also recognized in local newspapers and the magazine Stadium. In 1921, Dali's mother passed away. Quickly after her death, his father married her sister.
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* ''Les cocus du vieil art moderne'', Bernard Grasset & Fasquelle, 1956. {{fr}}
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** [[Media:Dali_Los_Cornudos_Del_Viejo_Arte_Moderno_2002.pdf|''Los Cornudos Del Viejo Arte Moderno'']], trans. Carmen Artal, Barcelona: Tusquets, 2002, [http://aaaaarg.fail/static/reader.htm?0=415f8a5d8332b5ff92e283c0bb5ee293-0 ARG]. {{es}}
  
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Having been already exposed to the artist movement and styles of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Futurism, he was accepted to the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, only to be expelled in 1926 for refusing to take the examination in "Fine Art Theory." He stated that the faculty was not competent enough to examine him. During this time he explored Cubism, Neo-Classicism, and Realism in his paintings. The year 1929 proved to be an important year for Dali: he made his first Surrealist Film, ''Un Chien Andalou'' (''An Adualusian Dog'') with former classmate Luis Bunuel, joined the Surrealist group, and in June, he met Gala Eluard, the wife of [[Paul Eluard]], a Surrealist poet. She eventually became hi wife, his muse, and influence behind many of his paintings. Other inspirational people for Dali were Picasso, Miro, the architect Gaudi, and especially the landscape of Catalonia.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9913 El mito trágico de ‘El Ángelus’ de Millet]'', 1963.  {{es}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=9913 The Tragic Myth of Miller’s L’Ángelus]'', trans. Haim Finkelstein, 1998. {{en}}
  
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The Surrealist's ideology was based on Freudian psychology, which systematized the analysis of dreams as revealed in images from the subconscious. Many of Dali's work during the 1930's were intaglio prints that accompanied Surrealist books and periodicals; these prints included "L'Immaculee Conception," and "La Femme Visible."
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* ''Journal d'un genie'', intro and notes Michel Déon, La Table Ronde, 1964. {{fr}}
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** [[Media:Dali_Salvador_Jurnalul_unui_geniu_2001.Pdf|''Jurnalul unui geniu'']], trans. Tania Radu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 1993, 1994; 2nd ed., 2001, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=d1e9a1b1d15df39e777fbe0e6e317247 PDF], [https://archive.org/details/DaliSalvadorJurnalulUnuiGeniu2001_201906 IA]; 2011. {{ro}}
  
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The works leaned toward provocative, and the "paranoiac-critical method," which Dali' defined as a spontaneous mode of irrational understanding based on interpretative critical association of delirious phenomena. The Oxford Companion to Art refers to it as "an attempt to make systemic use of the organizational force of hallucinatory and obsessive experience with special emphasis on multiple figuration." Even the Surrealist group thought of these works as risque and controversial. Eventually, in 1934 Dali separated from the Surrealist group, because of his conflicting view toward their commitment to Marxist politics and development of rituals, and dogmas. He demanded absolute freedom, and he felt their censorship and political motivations were constricting his ingenuity.
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* ''The Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí'', ed. & trans. Haim Findelstein, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 496 pp. {{en}}
  
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Dali and Gala fled the German invasion of France in 1940 and headed toward the United States, where they stayed until 1948. During much of this time Dali gained international fame by capitalizing on self-advertisement through television, advertisements, and publications. As one of the most diverse artists of the twentieth century, Dali worked in many mediums, designing state settings, jewelry, clothing, and perfume; he also worked on animation for Walt Disney movies, which were never finished. He refers to this period as the time he desired to become "classic."
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==Interviews==
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* Alain Bosquet, ''Conversations with Dalí'', New York: E.P. Dutton, 1969. [http://www.ubu.com/historical/Dalí/Dalí_conversations.pdf] {{en}}
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The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima made quite an impression on Dali, he entered what is called his Nuclear and Atomic period. By the 1950's he had begun to focus on religious themes and in the 1960's Dali experimented with Pop and Op Art, as well as Abstract Expressionism, which eventually culminated in the stereoscopic paintings and holographs of the 1970's. The early 1950's he developed his principals of Nuclear Mysticism, in which he concluded "the very basis of life would prove to be spiral."
 
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In 1970, Dali and Gala parted ways and he gave her the Castle at Pubol and only visited her with written invitation. In 1982, Gala died at the Castle Pubol. With his muse gone, he no longer had the desire to create and only did a handful of paintings and prints. Before dying of heart failure in 1989, he lived as a recluse in a room adjacent to his Teatro-Museum. He is now interred in his museum, surrounded by his art, which was his life [http://www.ubu.com/historical/dali/].
 
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==Gallery==
 
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File:The-persistence-of-memory-1931.jpg|The persistence of memory, Oil on canvas, 24 cm × 33 cm, MOMa, 1931
 
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==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* Federico Zeri, [[Media:Zeri_Federico_Dali_Persistenza_della_memoria_1998.pdf|''Dali. Persistenza della memoria'']], Milan: Rizzoli, 1998. {{it}}
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* ''Les cocus du vieil art moderne'', Éditions Bernard Grasset & Fasquelle, 1956
 
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** [[Media:Dali_Los_Cornudos_Del_Viejo_Arte_Moderno_2002.pdf|''Los Cornudos Del Viejo Arte Moderno'']],Tusquets Editores, Barcelona, 2000 (trans. by Carmen Artal)
 
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* Alain Bosquet, ''Conversations with Dali'' originally published by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York City, 1969, [http://www.ubu.com/historical/dali/dali_conversations.pdf on-line version] by ubuclassics, 2003
 
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* Tim McNeese, ''Salvador Dali (The Great Hispanic Heritage)'', 2006
 
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* Adam G. Klein, ''Salvador Dali (Great Artists)'', 2006
 
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* Eric Shanes, The Life and Masterworks of Salvador Dalí [2nd ed.], Temporis Collection, 2011
 
  
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==Links==
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[[Category:Surrealism]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dali, Salvador}}
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD Dali on Wikipedia]
 
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* [http://www.ubu.com/sound/dali.html Dali on Ubu.sound]
 

Revision as of 10:42, 5 June 2019


Dalí Atomicus, 1948. Photo: Philippe Halsman.
Born May 11, 1904(1904-05-11)
Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Died January 23, 1989(1989-01-23) (aged 84)
Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (1904–1989), known as Salvador Dalí was a Catalan surrealist painter. Dalí's artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931.

Publications

  • Journal d'un genie, intro and notes Michel Déon, La Table Ronde, 1964. (French)
  • The Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí, ed. & trans. Haim Findelstein, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 496 pp. (English)

Interviews

  • Alain Bosquet, Conversations with Dalí, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1969. [1] (English)

Literature

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