Salvador Dalí is a Spanish artist of the 20th century who He stood out for his surrealist works and his eccentric personality. that has marked many subsequent generations. Everyone will undoubtedly recognize his peculiar mustache with the ends turned up.
Let's get to know a little about the life of this very peculiar and important artist, and let's see some of his most representative works.
Salvador Dalí, knowing his life
The personality that Salvador Dalí would develop had its beginning nine months before he was born. Dalí's brother died just at that moment and when, five years later, He visited his brother's grave, his parents told him that he was his reincarnation.
Dalí became obsessed with this idea and with the fact that he and his brother were two drops of water, although with "different reflections." He would come to portray his brother in Portrait of my dead brother.
The painting came to the artist's life through the family of Ramón Pichot, a Catalan painter who would recommend Dalí's parents to enroll him in art classes with Juan Núñez. The first prize he would win was in an exhibition in Barcelona when he was fourteen years old.
Another death would mark the life of Dalí, that of his mother who would die from uterine cancer. Phrases such as "it was the strongest blow I have received in my life" or "...loss of the being on whom I counted to make the inevitable stains on my soul invisible" would be uttered by Dalí in the face of that loss.
His studies and trip to Paris
Dalí continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. She immediately attracted attention for his eccentric character. There she would meet very important personalities of her time such as Luis Buñuel or Federico García Lorca. She would collaborate with some of them, such as with the script for Buñuel's film an Andalusian dog (1929)
In his trip to Paris during the Roaring 20s, he would establish a relationship with artists such as Joan Miró or Picasso. The interesting thing about that time is that he would join the surrealist group led by André Bretón. An artistic style that would not only end up triumphing but would become Dalí's trademark.
Salvador Dalí meets Gala
On your trip to Paris would be where He would meet the great love of his life, Gala. A woman married to Paul Éluard, a poet. Her father would not look favorably on her relationship with Gala or the life that Dalí was leading in general and at that time. He would end up breaking off his relationship with his father. This fact is important since it would mark his works. From that time we have to highlight: The Persistence of Memory (1931), which is perhaps the painter's most famous.
En In 1934 he married Gala and around that time he began to participate in a large number of exhibitions. Edward James would be his patron at that time and all the exhibitions would come from him. He would be living between New York and Paris for much of his life.
The trip he would make through Italy also towards the mid-1930s would mark his artistic panorama since He began to feel attracted by the religious scene. We have works like Crucifixion, The Last Supper or the Madonna of Port Lligat.
Stay in the United States
In the 40s, German troops entered Bordeaux where Dalí and Gala lived and the couple moved to the United States where they would remain until they decided to return to Spain. At that time would begin his interest in jewelry design something he would keep for the rest of his life.
I would perform opera scene decorations as Labyrinth, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House. Furthermore, in 1941 an exhibition of Dalí and Miró opened at the MOMA. He would also create sets for ballets and theatrical works.
Dalí's life would be published a year later and the artist's life would reach the hands of thousands of people interested in him on paper.
On March 21, one of the most important collections of Dalí's works that we have left, which is the collection of the Reynolds Morse couple. On that date they would buy the first of many Dalí paintings.
The world of cinema led him not only to participate with Buñuel but also with Alfred Hitchcock.
Salvador Dalí's return to Spain
Dalí He returned to Spain in 1949 and he still had more than forty years of creating works, although according to art historians his best production was already done.
Although it was established in Spain He continued doing work all over the world. such as the presentation in Paris of the Manifeste mystique and would make other French publications such as Arts, Le Courrier des letters o Knowledge of the Arts.
In 1954, would exhibit in Rome the drawings he made to illustrate the Divine Comedy of Dante.
In 1961 he would receive a tribute in his hometown, at the same time that the Dalí Theater-Museum begins to be built.
In 1964, He was awarded the Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica, a very important distinction in Spain.
He continued to remain active between publications in magazines from different parts of the world, exhibitions, illustrating books and carrying out an extensive artistic program until his death. When he died in Figueras in 1989 He did it with a personality built over the years and that would launch him into fame from his works to his mustache.