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Salvador Dali was a prolific artist who created paintings, prints, sculptures, book illustrations, jewelry designs, as well as works for the theater and film. "Man's Professions", a unique series of paintings made available here as fine quality reproductions, utilize the vivid colors of Dali's home in the Spanish country and seaside.
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The Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the best-known and most flamboyant surrealist artists. Possessed with an enormous facility for drawing, he painted his dreams and bizarre moods in a precise illusionistic fashion.
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A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.
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Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figuera in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
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Salvador Dali was almost as surreal a character as he was an artist. Although best remembered for being an outrageous ego-maniac and brilliant painter; Dali was ... involved with a few films. His first and still most famous is the highly disturbing yet undeniably fascinating Un Chien Andalou/An Andalusian Dog, which he made with Luis Buñuel in the 1929. The following year, Dali made L'Age D'Or. Soon afterward, he denounced films as an art form. In 1945, Dali did design a surrealistic dream segment for Hitchcock's Spellbound.
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In 1948 Dali and Gala returned to Europe, spending most of their time either in their residence in Lligat/Spain or in Paris/France or in New York. Dali developed a lively interest in science, religion and history. He integrated things into his art that he had picked up from popular science magazines. Another source of inspiration were the great classical masters of painting like Raphael, Velasquez or the French painter Ingres. The artist commented his shift in style with the words: "To be a surrealist forever is like spending your life painting nothing but eyes and noses."
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