- Year Born/Died: 1904-1989
- City Born: Catalonia
- Significant Works: The Persistence of Memory, The Great Masturbator
- Movement: Surrealism, Cubism, Modern art
Salvador Dali is possibly the most well-known Spanish painter. He came from a middle-class family on the Catalonian border with France.
Throughout his academic education, Dali was inspired by Renaissance and Impressionism before moving on to advanced trends like Surrealism and Cubism. Dal’s favorite subjects were the subconscious mind, sexuality, and dreams, which he frequently represented symbolically.
Salvador Dali gradually replaced some concepts with jarring or even bizarre images. For instance, eggs frequently represent love and optimism. The rhinoceros symbolizes purity and virginity.
In the late 1920s, he created the paranoiac-critical technique, which significantly impacted other painters of the time.
