Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) Spain, known as Salvador Dalí.
Spanish painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, writer.
Salvador Dali was one of the twentieth century’s most famous artists, a painter whose remarkably potent work is recognized the world over. Both his extraordinary artwork and a brilliantly eccentric personality account for his universal popularity.
Dali was an superb draftsman who continually sought to develop new aesthetic approaches to painting. He very much admired the expert techniques displayed by Renaissance artists and sought initially to emulate that high style.  While for a time a leading Surrealist – he himself stated with no little aplomb “I am Surrealism!” and remains a prototype of a specific quality and remains a prototype of a specific quality of surrealism-he was finally expelled from the volatile group because his art and vision encompassed much more than mere ideology.
Dali’s exuberant public life and prolific artistic production resulted in his engaging in many aspects of the arts. Besides painting Dali was active in the theater, literature and theory, ballet, and film. With the lifelong assistance of his beloved wife Gale, he explored with diligence and enthusiasm both madness and mysticism. He philosophized constantly about the nature of art-his own and the public’s varied response to it.

As his reputation grew so did his public displays, artistic and otherwise-he clearly prefigured Warhol and the sixties decade by a long shot. Today he is remembered most fondly not only for his marvelous paintings and the large museums of his work but for his lobsters, his mustache, and his obsession with the shape of his wife. Even years after his death the phenomenon of Dali continues to provoke and amaze.   -Edmund Swinglehurst