Who is Salvador Dali?

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech was born on the morning of May 11, 1904, in the small agricultural town of Figueras, Spain. His first paintings, the Yellow Manifesto (1928), and his articles and lectures (1930) provoked violent reactions. Living in Paris from the end of the 1920s, he became a key figure in pictorial surrealism. There, he met the wife of Paul Eluard, Gala Helena Diakonova, whom he married. In 1939 he moved to the United States. He divided his time between the United States and Portlligat, whose landscape became once again his work’s main motif. He was expelled from the Surrealist movement, accused by André Breton of being a fascist. When he returned to Spain in 1948, he claimed to follow the spiritual tradition of Zurbaran and the great mystics of Spanish literature. In November 1988, Salvador Dalí entered the hospital with a failing heart. After a brief convalescence, he returned to the Teatro-Museo. On January 23, 1989, he died of heart failure at the age of 84, buried in the theater museums crypt.

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