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Living in Dreams, the Story of El Salvador Dali

Dali El Salvador Dali was a painter of dreams, making them vibrantly real and true to life. Dali\'s art will forever be the epitome of surrealist painting. He even said himself, \"Le Surrealisme...c\'est moi!\" (Surrealism...it\'s me!) (Bogehold, 182). Dali\'s career was filled with insanities, love and most of all art. His style was new to the world. His imagination exuberant. From a small art school in Spain all the way to exhibitions all over the world, he had great success by shocking viewers. Dali was born May 11, 1904, to Salvador Dali (Sr.), and Felipa Domenech. Both of his parents were successful, and as a result Dali was spoiled as a child. His childhood made him accustomed to many things, especially getting his own way. His name, Salvador, had first been given to a brother who died a few years earlier at the age of seven from meningitis. Perhaps because of that death, his parents lavished upon him an overbearing love that brought about his flamboyant personality (Descharmes, 12). Dali went as far to see himself as the ghost of his dead brother, who later became a subject of his art. At the age of ten, when he became aquatinted with the artwork

Descharmes, Robert. Salvador Dali 1904-1989. Koln, Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1992. Boegehold, Lindley. DALI: The Salvador Dali Museum Collection. Canada: Little, Brown, & Company, 1991. The Extraordinary Life of Salvador Dali. The Official Site of The El Salvador Dali Museum. 3 January 2000. 2pp. . El Salvador Dali

of a friend of his family, Ramon Pichot, an artist influenced by French Impressionism. At the age of ten, Dali went to study at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid. During one of his first drawing courses, he would do exactly the opposite of what he was taught, oftentimes creating uproar in the classroom. There, Dali painted landscapes of the Ampurdan plain of Spain and cubist works modeled after Picasso, one of his earliest mentors. His developments of precision drawing and composition skills were developed during this time. He was later expelled due to the charge of inciting a student rebellion against school authorities, just the beginnings of his nature to shock. Dali held numerous one-man shows during his career and did many art forms from paintings to sculpture and even movies. He directed and was part of many films including the first surrealist film Un Chien Andalou with director Luis Bunuel. In 1945 he designed the surrealist dream sequence for Alfred Hitchcok\'s Spellbound. He was also involved in the making of a ballet with CoCo Chanel; he painted the sets and aided with the design of the costumes. Further on in his career, Dali also did sculpture. One of his most famous was Venus De Milo with Drawers. A life-size rendition of the Venus De Milo, except with drawers placed on both breasts, her chest, stomach, knee, and forehead, each with a fur-rimmed knob. In 1925, Dali had his first one-man show at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona. The following year he made his first trip to Paris, where he met Picasso and Miro. Dali joined the Surrealists in 1929, but by 1922 he had already read The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, and he had been incorporating

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