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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11 1904 – January 23 1989), was a Spanish (Catalan) surrealist painter.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.

Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003.

Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors who invaded Spain in the year 711, and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes."

Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity...

Created by dipity on Feb 7, 2008

Last updated: 03/05/10 at 11:58 PM

• Salvador Dalí Died
  Jan 22, 1989

  Salvador Dalí died

• Gala Dalí & Salvador Dalí married
  1933

  Gala Dalí & Salvador Dalí married

• Un chien andalou
  Jun 25, 1929

  Un Chien Andalou (English: An Andalusian Dog ) is a sixteen-minute surrealist film made in France in 1928 by Spanish writer/directors Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and released in 1929 in Paris. It is one of the best-known surrealist films of the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s. It is also considered one of the most prominent films in Spanish Surrealism. It stars Simone Mareuil and Pierre Batcheff as the unnamed protagonists. The film has no plot, in the normal sense of the word. There are two central characters, a man and a woman, who appear throughout and seem to be having a relationship crisis, but they are unnamed and the chronology of the film is disjointed: for example it jumps from "once upon a time" to "eight years later" without the events changing. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related, and at times potentially offensive, scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. It also...,
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• Salvador Dalí's Birthday
  May 10, 1904

  Salvador Dalí was born