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Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of
Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist
painter born in Figueres.
 Dalí
was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images
in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the
influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The
Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive
artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration
with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his
"love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury
and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming
that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative,
and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior,
in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved
his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes
drew more public attention than his artwork
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