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Quote: I don’t do drugs, I am drugs. Maura Acosta Toni Contreras January 27,2011 Period.2. Salvador Dali. General Background Info. Born: May 11,1904 In Figueras, Spain. Profession: He was an Artist Died: January 23,1989 Where: In Pigueras Hospital . Significant details.
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Quote: I don’t do drugs, I am drugs. Maura Acosta Toni Contreras January 27,2011 Period.2 Salvador Dali
General Background Info. • Born: May 11,1904 In Figueras, Spain. • Profession: He was an Artist • Died: January 23,1989 Where: In Pigueras Hospital
Significant details • His dad was a wealthy lawyer. • His mom spoiled him a lot. • He had an elder brother which died nine months after Dali’s birth. • His mother died when he was young, she died of breast cancer.
Significant details (cont.) • Once his mother past away he felt very alone and anxouis. • He got into a lot of arguments with his father after his mom past. • He started to draw at the age of fifteen. • He had a farvorite spot where he enjoyed to draw which was called, Caracas.
Significant details (cont.) • Once he was at the age of eighteen, he moved to a place called Madrid. • Once he arrived he started to attend School of fine Arts Madrid. • He than ended up getting expelled from the Fine Arts Academy, because he believed that none of his teachers where good enough to examine his work. • He than soon convinced people he was insane.
Contribute to the World • He developed “paranoiac critical method.” • He also developed “surrealism.”
Challenges faced • He faced loneliness and anxiety. • He experienced his mothers death. • He struggled fights with his father. • He lastly, faced expulsion.
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