Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali Dali’s work is permeated by events that shaped his life even before his birth in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. His name, Salvador, had first been given to a brother who died a few years earlier at a young age. Perhaps because of that death, his parents lavished upon him an excessive love that fostered his egocentric and flamboyant personality. Furthermore, he saw himself as the phantom of his dead brother, early on becoming …

…s self,” a way for the artist to categorize and take possession of his own obsessions with the purpose of organizing them as artistic material. Rather than bring any innovation in pictorial language or mode of representation to painting, Dali’s paradoxical images are his great contribution to the art of our time. Since he abandoned his attempts at cubism in 1926, it can be said that he had a recourse only to traditional painting techniques.