1. Salvador Dalí
Madman or Artist?

2. Salvador Dalí : Artist, etc. (“Discovery Video”)
“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy – the joy of being Salvador Dalí – and I ask myself in rapture: ‘What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?’ ” Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí

3. Salvador Dalí : The Early Years
Insane Genius
Begins painting at 10
Tries to stand out as eccentric madman
Attends art school
Hints of surrealism begin to appear in work

4. Dalí Comes of Age –Surrealism
In 1925, Dali is expelled from art academy when refuses to take exams
Begins to paint surreal images
Surrealism
rejects reason
focuses upon making dream images come to life on canvas

5. Dali – Middle Years
Disowned by family for insulting mother and living with divorced woman
Enters “hard and soft” period
Creates most famous paintings

6. Dali – Later Years Mocks the work of Michelangelo (and Da Vinci)
Does anything for money (and attention)
jewelry, clothes, TV shows, commercials, etc.
Commercial for Lanvin Chocolate
“I’m crazy about Lanvin Chocolate!”
He plans his own funeral
Leaves world as mad as he came into it

7. EXTRA CREDIT: Bring in a copy of a painting by Salvador Dali
Must be labeled with title in Spanish and English