by Cheryl Cruz

Created on: June 23, 2008

"Dali will never die," a young Dali tells Mike Wallace in the doorway to Dali. The reasons for his immortality becomes apparent as Mike Wallce peels away Dalis public persona in this 1950's interview. Dali sheds his pretense and contemplates Freud, Einstein and the Atomic Theory which we learn inspired his paintings

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born on May 11th in Figueres Catalonia, Spain. Dali emissioned himself as the "Savior" of modern arts and a leader of Surrealism. Dali felt his name was destined to be perfertly suited for these two rules. Salvador is a Spanish word meaning "Savior" and Dali is an Arabic word "Adalia" which means "Guide" or "Leader".

Dali begun his education at the Figueres Municipal Primary School at the age of four. Dali family has a family friend and they are highly artistic family during thier time and one of the family member, Ramon Pinchot becomes Dali's first mentor.

The Figueres College is a school consisted of a strong emphasis in French, literature and Arts and this is the schoool where Salvador Dali attended after his primary school. And here Dali recieved his first piece of artistic advice, "...to paint is well in general, consists in not going over the line"

Dalis second mentor is Juan Nunez. He meet him when he studied in Madrid in The San Fernando Schools of Fine Arts in 1922. Here he befriended with Luis Bunuel, a film maker and Fedirico Garcia Lorca, a poet and they became well known as the Spain's leading Avant-Garde figure. Dali held his first solo exhibit in 1925 in a small gallery in Barcelona Spain.

In 1972 Dali's painting "Honey is Sweeter than Blood" becomes his first masterpiece.

Dali meets the love of his life Gala in 1929. During World War II in Europe, Dali and Gala fled to the United States and they remain in United States for years where they made a part time home at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

On January 23,1989, Dali died from heart failure and buried in his Theater Museum in Figueres.

Some of Dali's painting are "Fashion Designer"(1980),"Profle of Time", "Imposible Dream"(1980), "Persistence of Memory", "Desert Watch", "Fantastic Voyage", "The Battle","Pour Magician", "Bust of Socrates","Wines Joel Diamond","Double Journalistic Image",'Aphrodisiac Rhino Horns" and many many more.

Today Salvador Dalis Legacy and Legend lives tremendously.

Today there is hardly an artist alive that hasn't been touched by his work.

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