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At
the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven
I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at
the same rate ever since.
-- Salvador Dali
Salvador
Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech
(May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was an important
Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works.
Dalí's work is noted for its striking combination of
bizarre dreamlike images with excellent draftsmanship and
painterly skills influenced by the Renaissance masters. Dalí
was an artist of great talent and imagination. He had an admitted
love of doing unusual things to draw attention to himself, which
sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his
critics, since his eccentric theatrical manner sometimes
overshadowed his artwork in public attention.
Salvador
Dalí as photographed in 1934 by Carl
Van Vechten
Upon
Francisco Franco's coming to power in the aftermath of the
Spanish Civil War, Dalí came into conflict with his fellow
Surrealists over political beliefs. As such Dalí was
officially expelled from the predominantly Marxist Surrealist
group. Dalí's response to his expulsion was "Surrealism
is me." Andre Breton coined the anagram "Avida
Dollars", by which he referred to Dalí after the
period of his expulsion; the Surrealists henceforth would speak
of Dalí in the past tense, as if he were dead. The
surrealist movement and various members thereof (such as Ted
Joans) would continue to issue extremely harsh polemics against
Dalí until the time of his death and beyond.
The
Persistence of Memory, 1931
“At
the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven
I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at
the same rate ever since.”
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