To write about Salvador Dali is a serious enterprise. So, I will not pretend that I will do it in the best way or in the most comprehensive way...But still, there are so many interesting aspects linked to his life and work that I will start and struggle.
His life adventure illustrates such interesting years as the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s....What a journey!
He was born in Figueras, a small Catalan town close to the French border in 1904. His beloved mother died in 1921 of breast cancer and as he said her death had a strong impact on him.
He studied in Madrid at the Academia de San Fernando. He had a very eccentric style, in the 19s century English aesthetes: sideburns, coat, stockings, and knee breeches. Here me made friends with Luis Buñuel (surrealist film maker, do not miss ' Belle de jour' 1963 with Catherine Deneuve) and Federico Garcia Lorca ( poet). He was expelled in 1926 just before his final exams.
His Basket of Bread, shows the skill he had at that time and it took him 4 months. He pained it again after 19 years in 1945 and he said that it was the most esoteric and surrealist thing he had ever painted.
More to come.....
His life adventure illustrates such interesting years as the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s....What a journey!
He was born in Figueras, a small Catalan town close to the French border in 1904. His beloved mother died in 1921 of breast cancer and as he said her death had a strong impact on him.
He studied in Madrid at the Academia de San Fernando. He had a very eccentric style, in the 19s century English aesthetes: sideburns, coat, stockings, and knee breeches. Here me made friends with Luis Buñuel (surrealist film maker, do not miss ' Belle de jour' 1963 with Catherine Deneuve) and Federico Garcia Lorca ( poet). He was expelled in 1926 just before his final exams.
His Basket of Bread, shows the skill he had at that time and it took him 4 months. He pained it again after 19 years in 1945 and he said that it was the most esoteric and surrealist thing he had ever painted.
More to come.....
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