Salvador Dalí Biography Biography of Felix Dahn (Figueres, Girona, 1904 - Púbol, 1989) English painter. Salvador Dali was born in early spring 1904 in the bosom of a bourgeois family, sanctimonious son of a notary and a sensible lady fond of birds. He later wrote: "At three years to become a chef. Five wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has not only grown and is now coming to be Salvador Dali and nothing else. Moreover, it is very difficult because, as I get to Salvador Dalí, he turns away from me. "
Since the relentless persecution and the target would not have ever attained, and since in any corner of his biography was intended to find balance and peace, decided to be excessive at all, performed many characters and sublimate their anguish in a plurality of humor and sordid delusions. It defined itself as "polymorphous perverse, behind and anarchic" , "soft, weak and repulsive," but to conquer this laborious advertising image before saving was some evidence of initiation, and if the favorite game of their first child was wearing the costume of a king, and to his ten years, when painting as The Sick Child, explores the benefits of appearing fragile and nervous constitution.
His precocity is striking: at twelve he discovered the French Impressionist style is impressionistic and, at fourteen and has acquaintance with the art of Picasso and Cubism has been made, fifteen years has become editor of the Studium magazine, where brilliant pastiches drawn to the section titled "The Great Masters of Painting."
Catalonia in 1919 left his home and moved to Madrid, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts and befriends the great poet Federico García Lorca and the Surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel future, who will distance yet irreversibly in 1930. In the capital takes a special outfit, has long hair, tie and a disproportionately large drag layer to toe. Sometimes wears a sky blue shirt adorned with sapphire cufflinks, holding the hair with a hairnet and polished with oil varnish. Their presence is difficult to go unnoticed. In
scrambled and conflicting months of 1923 suffered an unfortunate setback. At the Academy of Fine Arts at which events occur is attached against a teacher, and before the commencement of the official discourse and the violent controversy erupts, Salvador leaves the room. Authorities believe that this gesture was he who gave the signal to attack and rebellion and decided to expel for one year. Then again in Figueras, the guards come to arrest him and spent some time in jail.
On leaving prison receive two joys. The first, an etching press that his father gives him, and the second visit the excellent companion to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid Federico García Lorca, who, on hot summer nights Cadaqués, read the whole family Dalí his poems and dramas new compounds. It is there, beside the Mediterranean, where Garcia Lorca writes the famous "Ode to Salvador Dali, published some years later, in 1929, in Revista de Occidente. Soon it will also Luis Buñuel who reach Cadaqués to work with his friend Salvador in a quite unusual screenplay and a movie that will emerge as strange as the Andalusian Dog. In 1927 Dalí
travel first to Paris, but next year when installed in Paris and joined the Surrealist group led by the poet André Breton. The latter end of movement expelling some years later, in a memorable trial session at which Dalí appeared covered with a blanket and a thermometer in her mouth, pretending to be suffering from fever fictitiously and oppressive converting the trial into a ridiculous farce.
The triple indictment which then had to face Dalí was, flirting with fascism, to show off a delirious Catholicism and feel a boundless and irrepressible passion for money. This specifically refers to the famous nickname anagrammatical was nicknamed by Breton, Avida dolars, an accusation that far from displeasing to the painter gave him a secret and ironic pleasure. In fact, after meeting what would become his muse and companion for all his life, Gala, then still the wife of another surrealist poet Paul Eluard, Dalí said romantically: "I love Gala more than my mother more than my father, more than a Picasso, more even than money .
Gala Salvador fell in love in the summer of 1929 and first she enjoyed the sweetness of eroticism. It depicts the time Adequacy of desire, Illumined Pleasures and The Great Masturbator, painting the latter who was attacked and torn by the fanatic group Puritan's Camelots du Roy. While holding an exhibition of his works at Galerie Goemans in Paris, the young and passionate couple and insulates refuge in the Costa Azul, passing the days and nights locked in a small hotel room with closed shutters. Having
Salvador father of the dissolute life of his son for a Eugenio d'Ors article appeared in The Literary Gazette, cuts ties with their offspring, but this should not affect too much, or maybe yes, since it is in that time when the artist makes the best of his work, as the famous painting The Persistence of Memory (1931), where soft clocks hanging from the branch of a tree, the edge of a pedestal and a mysterious form lying on the vast expanse from the beach.
In 1934 he travels with his inseparable and Gala at the United States, where he disembarked and presented to reporters with a huge bread baked by the cook of the ocean liner that has carried. In his erratic statements do not hesitate to associate with the phone myth Hitler and Lenin with baseball. Are all nonsensical jokes trying to make them less threatening political situation. Two years later unleashed the brutal civil war in Spain and one of the first signs of the probity of the military insurgents is the infamous murder of his friend Federico García Lorca, a crime that shocked international public opinion. Dalí wrote: "Lorca had personality to make and sell enough to be shot, before any other, for any English."
last known in 1938, thanks to the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig to Sigmund Freud, who had been the great inspiration behind the surrealist aesthetic, which Dalí did not feel marginalized despite the bluster of Breton, but instead is considered the single most genuine example. The father of psychoanalysis had given rise to a new investigation of the unconscious with his book The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), but had never taken too seriously young fans in Paris.
However, the July 20, 1938, after the meeting, Freud wrote in his diary: "Until then I was tempted to regard the surrealists apparently I have chosen as the patron saint as integral crazy (say 95%, as pure alcohol). English young man, with his splendid eyes of a fanatic and undeniable technical mastery, moved me to reconsider my opinion. "Meanwhile, the stunning and amazing artist painted portraits of the" patron saint "of the Surrealists.
installed again in New York in 1939, Dalí accepts a commission to decorate a commercial displays. The theme you choose is the Day and Night, the first evoked by a mannequin in a bathtub gets hairy and second, through the coals and black cloth extended, but the direction changes without consulting the set the author. Dalí, angry, turns the bathtub full of water Astrakhan and the spear against the glass of the window causing a crash and a marked destruction.
Although the American public will applaud the vigor with which he defend intellectual property, is judged by the courts and ordered to pay damages. Also fails to complete his next project to decorate a pavilion of the International Fair of New York, which was to take the significant title of Dream of Venus.
returned to Spain in 1948, taking up residence again in Port Lligat and finding in the regime of General Franco all the facilities. The government even Catalan said that corner so fascinated the painter "Spot picturesque national interest." For many art historians the best of his work had been done and yet he still had forty years of production and irreducible capricious deification and exhibitionism, with public appearances style who starred in December 1955 when people at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris to give a lecture in a Rolls Royce full of cauliflower. The artist's lifetime even founded a Dalí Museum in Figueras, this scenic, colorful and strange monument to his proverbial egotism is one of the most visited museums in Spain.
During the seventies, Dalí, who had declared that painting was "a photograph taken in hand", was the guarantor of international hyper-realistic style, leaving your palette, there was less disturbing than their neat previous inquiry about the unlimited and misleading dream world. But who more and who less points better than his paintings slicked his mustache repulsive, and there are some who claims to have seen at the Lyceum, the luxurious opera house in Barcelona, \u200b\u200belegantly dressed in tails and looking in the breast pocket, to guise of colorful cloth, a flaccid omelette.
In his will, bequeathed the most controversial artist their heritage to the English state, thereby causing even after his death in 1989, after a long agony, new and bitter controversy. The novelist Italo Calvino wrote that "nothing is more falsifiable the unconscious" and perhaps this anti-Freudian paradoxical truth is the great lesson of the operator of the paranoiac-critical method of that master of theatrics and propaganda of this outrageous artist, perfectionist of the eminent magician, quirky city that was Salvador Dalí. The prolific crazy Ampurdán, the plain giddy Catalan swept north wind picks up the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea coast in a tortuous and ARRISCAN, discovered the art of mystification and simulation, lies, deception and disguise even before learning to manage your pencil with accuracy and sterile crazy dreams.
its long existence, stubbornly devoted to torturing the subject and the canvas with the most evil fruit of his fertile imagination, also remained faithful to a stunning landscape of his childhood: Port Lligat, a bay embraced rock where the spirit eddies, sometimes to rise to the most sublime mysteries, now in corruption as the still waters. Mystical and Narcissus, Salvador Dali, perhaps one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century became provocative irresponsibility not ethics, but in an aesthetic, a dark beauty and aesthetics which is inconceivable without that contains the haunting glow of the sinister. Dalí exhibited in provocative all intimate circumstances of his life and thought.
