( 1904-1989 )

Salvador Dalí was born on 11 May 1904 on the street Motoroli of Figueras,Spain. He has the same name as another child born a decade earlier and who died in 1901 at age 7 of meningitis. This will be traumatic in his biography and in his talks. Salvador Dalí we speak of the other-yo, that it creates great emotional destabilization by having to carry small flowers at a tomb that has its name.

Salvador Dalí came in 1911, at the age of seven at public school.
In 1912 despite having a father republican, federal and secular sends the young Salvador Dalí to the religious school of the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine. In this year Salvador Dalí already has its first study on the roof of his house, among other things makes a reproduction in the mud of Venus de Milo.

In 1914 Salvador Dalí is going to attend the Marist Brothers high school where he becomes famous for his eccentricities and lack of fondness for the studies. That same year, Salvador Dalí falls ill and his parents sent him to Casa de los Pichot, a family of painters and musicians, family friends and at the Moli de la Torre Salvador Dali discover French Impressionism, Pointillism on the work of Modesto Urgell and Fortuny, he go to the magazine "L'Espirito Nouveau" where he sees reproductions of the paintings of cubist Juan Gris.

In 1919 Salvador Dalí had the first exhibition of his work in the theater of Figueras, where a few years later he built the Salvador Dalí Museum.

In 1921 his mother Felipa died , an event that plunged to his entire family in grief and causing two reactions very contradictory in later years.
On one hand leads to Salvador Dalí say that "It was absolutely necessary to achieve the glory to avenge the insult to represented for me the death of my mother, who adored religiously. " That was years after that before the group Surreal unconditional, as all its members, publicly rejecting his past, his family and friends. To do this Salvador Dalí presents a table showing the form of a Sacred Heart on who writes "I spit on my mother." This provokes the anger of his father, who ejected him from home in 1929, the year of the incident.

Also in 1921 Salvador Dalí traveled to Madrid with his father and his sister to make membership of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Salvador Dalí is staying at the Residencia de Estudiantes where he appears dressed in mourning, with long sideburns and hair, dress pants and hunter in the legs that leads bands in Catalonia are called "mulataire" wearing hikers and hunters.
Salvador Dalí regularly attends the Prado Museum and comes into contact with the works of Freud. Salvador Dalí was accepted into the group of the Residence formed among others by Federico García Lorca, Bunuel, Moreno Villa, and so on. When they see a box in his room in cubist style,he changes in his painting and his way of thinking that leads to his way of dressing: he cut his hair and wearing dresses cut English, but this change was adopted contradicting the opinion of their peers. Because the appearance of Salvador Dalí drew attention and sometimes provoked clashes and riots that made him nervous, but terribly fun to Bunuel.

In 1923 Salvador Dalí was expelled from San Fernando to support the chair vacant Vazquez Diaz.

In 1924-25 Salvador Dalí come to the classes of the Free Academy, founded by Julius Moses and located in the passage of the Alhambra. That summer sets in the Salvador Dalí Gallery Dalmau and critics are unanimous in praise for the painter of 21 years.

In 1925-26 Salvador Dalí was readmitted to San Fernando. On April 11 and until 28 months of this Salvador Dalí conducts its first trip to Paris with his "Tieta" and her sister.
Buñuel receives them in the French capital and he was introduced to the group of Spaniards living in the city and he get to see Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Back in Madrid in June Salvador Dalí refuses to be examined in the History of Art "by three professors ignorant." This fact makes him permanently expelled from the Royal Academy of San Fernando. From now on the scandal and the eccentricity of Salvador Dalí chairing his life.

In 1929 Salvador Dalí went to Paris again, this time to roll along with Luis Buñuel An Andalusian Dog. Presents its first exhibition in Paris foreword by André Breton. In the summer Salvador Dalí receive the visit of Luis Bunuel, Magritte marriage. It is the first meeting between Salvador Dalí and Gala and decide not to secede. Salvador Dalí paints a portrait of Paul Eluard, The Great Masturbator ,the pleasures and lighted. Salvador Dalí developed in various writings paranoiac-critical method and paints with him.

1930 is presented The Golden Age. The League of Patriots manifests against the film and destroyed the pictures that decorate the lobby of Salvador Dalí, Joan Miro, Tanguy and Max Ernst. Illustrates the Second Surrealist Manifesto.

1933 he is going to New York with Gala.
1936-39 he lives in Italy during the Spanish Civil War. He gets cold in the death of Federico García Lorca and paints among others Venus de Milo with Mirrors, The Enigma of Hitler. New travel to the United States. Scandal regarding the amendment of the showcase of the department store Bonwit-Teller. When he comes to World War II, he was installed in Arcachon and when the Germans invaded France, he moved to Spain, and he will see his father and continues road to Lisbon to travel to the United States where he resides until 1948.

In 1948 he returns to Spain and there is a return to classicism in his work. Paint the early religious works, the two versions of Madonna of Port Lligat. He wrote the manifesto which explains the mystical art nuclear. Dalí is increasingly marked by a need to highlight, emphasizing its eccentricities and its interest in the money and power.

1959 Starts his cycle of historical painting with the dream of Christopher Columbus.

In 1966 The Gallery of Modern Art in New York is the largest retrospective devoted to a painter alive. His work and his life begins to be all speculation and once again in search of fame proclaims contrary to the commercialization of art. He is not interested in the painting that he is contemporary.

In 1970 Dalí already begun the works to build the Dalí Museum in Figueras.

In 1974 was the opening of the Dali Museum in Figueras, topped by a geodesic dome serious work of Perez Piñero, is his second since the museum opened in 1971, another in Cleveland, Ohio.

1979 On the occasion of its 75th birthday is celebrated a retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris, will be one of the last public events that the painter went, becoming a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1982 Gala died on October 10 and Dali painting and abandons his public activity.

In 1989 Dali died in Jan. 24 at his castle Pubol and he was buried the following day at the theater-museum in Figueras.