SALVADOR DALI

BIOGRAPHY

• Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech

• born: 11th May 1904 in Figueras

• at ten he painted a self-portreit titled "Ill Child”

• expelled from San Fernando School of Fine Art

• twice expelled from the Royal Academy in Madrid

• joined Paris surrealist group

• first surrealist painting ”Honey is sweeter than blood”

• painted the world of the unconscious

• met Gala Helena Deluviana Diakonoff Eluard Honey is sweeter than blood

• expelled from the surrealist group

• contoversial auto-biography "the secret life of Salvador Dali”

• Gala's death in 1982• Dali's health began to fail • 1983 - last work, "The

Swallow´s Tail”• January 23, 1989, Salvador

Dali died from heart failure and respiratory complications

• buried in the crypt-mausoleum of the Museum Theatre in Figueras. Galatea

SECRET LIFE• autobiography The secret

life of Salvador Dali• marketing a product - his

own art• "The difference between

false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."

The secret life of Salvador Dali - cover

• "It is not important what you do as long as you are in the headlines."

• ”Disorder has to be created systematically."

• “The only diference between me and a mad man is that I am not mad.”

• 5 years:- pushed a little boy of a bridge- put a dead bat coverd with ants in his mouth and bit it in half

• 6 years: kicks his three-year old sister in the head

• “When I was six years old I wanted to be a cook and when I was seven, Napoleon. Since then my ambitions has soared without ceasing.”

• adolescence- five-year plan with a girl who was in love with him

• necrophilia: dead faces, skulls, corpses of animals

Skull made of women

• 29: knocked down and trampled a girl “until they had to tear her, bleeding, out of my reach”

• made coctails out of his own blood in a bar in the Ritz

• asociated animal glue, death and dung with sex

• exhibited an image of the Sacred heart across which he had written "sometimes I spit on the portrait of my mother

Ballerina in a death’s head

• Sister Ana Mariain claimed Dali had a normal and happy youth

• his long-time secretary described Dali as a normal person• his fellow students remembered Dali as bashful, morbidly

shy and litteraly sick with timidity

Swallow’s tail

WORK• paintings• sculptures• design for Coco Chanel• illustrations• literature - over 500

documents• film making with Hitchcock

and Walt Disney• 15 exhibitions on three

continets• the only artist with two

official museums: Figueres, Spain, and Saint Petersburg, Florida

Dali’s museum in Figueres

The persistence of memory

Elephants

Soft construction with boiled beans

Sleep

Gala conteplating the Mediteranean sea

Lincoln

Swans reflecting elephants

One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate

The halucinogenic toreador

The hand

Temptation of Saint Anthony

Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Lobster telephone

Mae West lips sofa

DESIGN