Salvador Dali
(1904-1989)
Biography

 Salvador Dali belongs to the Surrealism category. Dali is not only a part of that category, but he is also a part of the Cubism and Modern Art categories. His works of art, from early impressionist paintings through  transitional surrealist works, and into the classical period show a constantly growing and evolving artist. Dali worked in all media, where he left behind a wealth of oils, watercolors, drawings, graphics, and sculptures, films, photographs, performance pieces, jewels and objects of all descriptions.  A similar artist by the name of Pablo Picasso  was also working at the same time as Dali was. During this time Picasso , also was being well known for the exact same movement that Dali also was a part of, Cubism. Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 , in the small town of Figueres, Spain. He attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Years later,  Dali held his first one-man show in Paris where he would join the surrealists. This is how his interest in Surrealism began. He would be with the surrealists until the year the war came , where he clashed with them and got expelled from the group in 1934. As Dali started to move away from Surrealism and into his classic period, he started to began his series of 19 large canvases, of which included many concerning scientific, historical or religious themes. In 1974, Dali opened the Teatro Museo in Figueres, Spain, which  was then followed by retrospectives in Paris and London at the end of the decade.