Salvador Dali

Born: May 11, 1904
City and Country of Origin: Figueres, Spain
Painting School: Surrealist
Art Training: Juan Nuñez at the Municipal School of Drawing in Figueres; San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid
Exhibitions: Dalmau Gallery, Barcelona (1921-22)(1925)(1926); Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Goeman’s Gallery, Paris (1929); Julien Levy Gallery in New York (1932)(1934)(1941); Art Club of Chicago (1941); Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in Los Angeles (1941); MoMA (1941); Cleveland Museum of Art (1947); hologram exhibit, Knoedler Gallery in New York (1972)
Awards: inducted into Academie Francaise des Beaux-Arts
Major Works: "Clock Explosion," "The Persistence of Memory, 1931," "Sacrament of the Last Supper, 1955," "Sleep"
Salvador Dali Biography: Salvador Dali was a painter, designer, graphic artist and sculptor. He started his art career as a Cubist and Futurist but joined the Surrealists in 1929. He was eccentric, an avid self promoter and aloof; not taking his final art exam because he claimed he knew more than his instructor.
Died: January 23, 1989