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
Honey is sweeter than blood 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 The secret life of Salvador Dali - cover 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."
"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
Skull made of women 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
Ballerina in a death’s head 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
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
Dali’s museum in Figueres 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
Lincoln Gala conteplating the Mediteranean sea
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
DESIGN Mae West lips sofa Lobster telephone