He was born in Figueres (Girona) in 1904. He joined the group of poets and artists known as the Generation of '27. His first paintings, the Yellow Manifesto (1928), and his articles and lectures (1930) provoked violent reactions. Living in Paris from the end of the 1920s, he became a key figure in pictorial surrealism. There, he met the wife of Paul Eluard, Gala Helena Diakonova, whom he married. In 1939 he moved to the United States. He divided his time between the United States and Portlligat, whose landscape became once again his work’s main motif. He was expelled from the Surrealist movement, accused by André Breton of being a fascist. When he returned to Spain in 1948, he claimed to follow the spiritual tradition of Zurbaran and the great mystics of Spanish literature. He died in Figueres in 1989.
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Un Chien Andalou (script, interpretation)
Emblematic work of surrealistic cinema, jointly created by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí based on their own dreams.
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Don Juan Tenorio, by José Zorrilla
Wardrobe design that demonstrates that Dalí was also an excellent set and costume designer for both theatre and film.
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National Theatre Museum (Almagro) -
Study for Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
Preparatory sketches for the work "Premonition of Civil War", carried out two years before the final piece.
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Museum of Contemporary Spanish Art. Patio Herreriano (Valladolid) -
Video projection of 'Un chien andalou'
This film is key to understanding the nature and revolutionary scope of Surrealism, as well as the contribution of Spanish artists to this movement.
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Reina Sofía National Art Museum (Madrid) -
Face of the Great Masturbator
This painting is the supreme symbol of Dalí's sexual obsessions and was mentioned even by the artist himself in his literary work 'The secret life of Salvador Dalí'.
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Reina Sofía National Art Museum (Madrid)
Other highlighted works
- Persistence of Memory
- Soft construction with boiled beans
- The Enigma of Desire
- The Invisible Man
- Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as a Surrealist Apartment
- The Madonna of Port Lligat
- Christ of Saint John of the Cross
