Biography: Salvador Dali 10 Articles

by John Paul Thompson

Close your eyes for a moment and try to remember your strangest, most surreal dream. Now imagine what it would be like to photographically capture those images from the deepest recesses of your mind by painting or sculptin...read more

by Sarah Huth

Some artists exist separately from their artwork, while other artists live their artwork. For them, art is more than the way that they make their living; it is the way they live their life. Salvidor Dali was one of those a...read more

by EMoore

Salvador Dali described himself and his lifestyle with these words: "The only difference between me and a madman is the fact that I am not mad." Were it not for the paintings, the books he wrote, the movies he collaborated...read more

by Alice Atkinson-Bonasio

"According to Greek Mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Unable to embrace the watery image, he pined away, and the gods immortalised him as a flower" (Available from The Tate Gallery ) ...read more

by Menchie Patrick

"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 preten...read more

by Johnette Loefgren

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad." so said Salvador Dali, one of the most important artists of our time. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dal i Domnech, was born on May 11, 1904, in Ca...read more

by Ted Sherman

A traditional description of Salvador Dali's life would certainly have angered him. The usual reciting of dates, places and lists of his works would be too pat, too boring, too plebein to describe an unusual artist who spe...read more

by Alizah Grace

Meet Salvador Dali Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism by which the real functioning of thought is expressed, by verbal, written, or artistic means. Who: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali Domnech. What: Mas...read more

by Kellea Croft

One of my favourite artists in high school that drove me to continue expanding my art is simply known by one word Dali. Born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech on the 11th of May 1904 in Figueres, Spain. The son o...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in Figueras, Spain in 1904 and there he died in 1989. In Madrid, he frequented the Arts School and met, among the others, the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who soon become his lover fo...read more