b. 1904, Figueras, Spain; d. 1989, Figueras, Spain
Salvador Dalà was born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalà y Domenech in the Catalan town of Figueras, Spain, on May 11, 1904. In 1921 he enrolled in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he became a friend of Federico GarcÃa Lorca and Luis Buñuel. His first solo show was held in 1925 at the Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona.
In 1926 Dalà was expelled from the Academia and the following year he visited Paris and met Pablo Picasso. He collaborated with Buñuel on the film Un Chien andalou in 1928. At the end of the year he returned to Paris and met Tristan Tzara and Paul Eluard. About this time Dalà produced his first Surrealist publications and illustrated the works of Surrealist writers and poets. His first solo show in the United States took place at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1933.
Dalà was censured by the Surrealists in 1934. Toward the end of the decade he made several trips to Italy to study the art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 1940 Dalà fled to the United States, where he worked on theatrical productions, wrote, illustrated books, and painted. A major retrospective of his work opened in 1941 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and traveled throughout the United States. In 1942 Dalà published his autobiography and began exhibiting at M. Knoedler and Co. in New York. He returned to Europe in 1948, settling in Port Lligat, Spain. His first paintings with religious subjects date from 1948–49. In 1954 a Dalà retrospective was held at the Palazzo Pallavicini in Rome and in 1964 an important retrospective of his work was shown in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kyoto. He continued painting, writing, and illustrating during the 1960s. The Salvador Dalà Museum in Cleveland was inaugurated in 1971, and the Dalinian Holographic Room opened at M. Knoedler and Co., New York, in 1973. In 1980 a major Dalà retrospective was held at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, and his work was exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London. The artist died on January 23, 1989, in Figueras.
Official Dali links:
http://www.salvador-dali.org/
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Notable disciples of Dali:
Robert Venosa Dali, Ernst Fuchs and Robert Venosa
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Ernst Fuchs
Dali, Ernst Fuchs
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HR GIGER http://www.giger.com Inspired by Fuchs and Dali. Was a personal friend of Fuchs, Dali and Venosa.
Dali, Ernst Fuchs http://www.ernstfuchs-zentrum.com
Bernard Ewell
(Worlds foremost authority on Dali Appraisals.)
Discussing a painting by artist Antonio Roybal.
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Dali, Ernst Fuchs
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Mark Ryden American artist Inspired by Dali. http://www.markryden.com
Father of Linear Expressionism. Dali gave gaugy his first show at the age of 15. http://www.gaugy.com
Dali, Ernst Fuchs
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Patio of the Teatro-Museo Dali, Figueras 1983
In the foreground Queen Esther, a statue donated by Ernst Fuchs,
serves as a monumental radiator cap on the Cadillac.
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