Salvador Dalí
Spain (1904—1989)Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia, in 1904. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where he met Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca. After being expelled from the Academy in 1926, he returned to Figueres to focus on painting. He collaborated with the avant-garde journal L’Amic de les Arts and, in 1928, co-authored the Manifest Groc (Yellow Manifesto), an anti-artistic manifesto, with Sebastià Gasch and Lluís Montanyà. During a visit to Paris in 1926, he met Pablo Picasso. In 1929 he collaborated with Buñuel on the film Un chien andalou and met Gala, then married to Paul Éluard, who became his muse and later his wife. Following their second film, L’Âge d’or (1930), Dalí developed his distinctive Surrealist style. In writings including La Femme visible (1930), he outlined the principles of his paranoiac-critical method. In 1940 he moved with Gala to the United States, where he worked on illustrations, theatre and ballet productions, and film projects with Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. He published 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship in 1948 and returned to Spain that year. He died in Figueres in 1989.
