1. Surrealism ( beyond real ) The Life and History of Salvador Dali “The only difference between me and a mad man is that I am not mad”- Salvador Dali

2. Salvador Dali  Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in Spain in 1904 ( around the time of the invention of the car ).

3. Salvador Dali Salvador was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer.

4. Salvador Dali After passing through phases of cubism, futurism, and metaphysical painting. He joined the surrealists in 1920. Soon he became the most famous surrealist of the time.

5. Dali’s artwork He said he believed that his paintings came from an unreal dream space, which is understandable because of the hallucinatory things in them. He said he believed that his paintings came from an unreal dream space, which is understandable because of the hallucinatory things in them.

6. More about Dali…  He is most famed around the world for his surreal & symbolic abstract oil paintings as much for his outlandish behavior.  Dali loved attention & was quite a showman. He wore a long curled up mustache.  He was notorious for not knowing how to count money.  He loved to shock the public and traveled with his pet ocelots.

7. More Dali Facts  Had his first drawing lesson at the age of 10 & his 1 st Art Show at age 21.  He became internationally famous for his surrealist art~paintings filled with strange scenes and objects from his imagination or dreams.  His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. The Persistence of MemoryThe Persistence of Memory  He moved to the US in the 1940’s as WWII tore thru Europe.  In 1955 he moved back to Spain  He died in 1989 at the age of 85 ~THE END