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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí. By Brian Bender. Early Life. Born in 1904 in Catalonia, Spain. Discovered modern art in 1916 and had his first exhibition of charcoal drawings in 1919. Studied at the Academia de San Fernando but later expelled. Experimented with Cubism and Dadaism . Mother died in 1922

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Salvador Dalí

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  1. Salvador Dalí By Brian Bender

  2. Early Life • Born in 1904 in Catalonia, Spain. • Discovered modern art in 1916 and had his first exhibition of charcoal drawings in 1919. • Studied at the Academia de San Fernando but later expelled. • Experimented with Cubism and Dadaism. • Mother died in 1922 • Met and was influenced by Picasso and Miró. • Became fascinated with the subconscious and joined a Surrealist group in 1929. • Very eccentric and grew odd mustaches.

  3. Surrealism • Started between the World Wars. • Stemmed from Dadaism and began in Europe. • Believed that the reason and logic of the capitalistic society was the cause of the wars. • Began with writers and poets in order to combine the conscious and subconscious. • Heavily influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud.

  4. Soft Construction with Boiled Beans

  5. Swans Reflecting Elephants

  6. Corpus Hypercubus

  7. Un ChienAndalou • Released in 1929 • Silent surrealist short film • No plot • Uses dream logic and Freudian free association • Opening scene: woman’s eye cut with a razor

  8. Later Life • One of the most famous artists of his time • Spent his remaining years back in Catalonia • Senile wife gave him dangerous cocktail of drugs, giving him Parkinson-like symptoms • Wife died in 1982 • Deliberately dehydrated himself • Save d from fire in 1984 • Died of heart failure in 1988

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