The Art of Salvador Dalí
i Domènech
Figueres, 11 May 1904 – 23 January
1989
 Salvador
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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