Salvador dali video biography

The name Dali has become a synonym for the fantastic and the absurd,

an immortality that delighted quirky artist Salvador Dali.

Throughout his colorful and productive life, Dali played on people's fascination

with the weird and wacky, although he was sometimes criticized for

putting commerce before art.

Born in Spain in , young Dali

displayed a precocious artistic talent and was only 14 when he

held his first exhibition. He enrolled at Madrid's Academy of Art

but was frustrated by his teacher's emphasis on modern styles

such as impressionism and cubism. Dali was more interested in learning

classical painting.

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He became a key player in the surrealist

movement, which was strongly influenced by the

political turmoil of the 20s and 30s and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic

theories. As expressed in art, surrealism placed

everyday items in odd settings, illustrated the absurd with hyper

realistic images and used symbols to construct double

meanings.

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