PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FULL NAME?
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalà i Doménech 1st Marqués de Dalà de Pubol
BORN?
May 11,1904•Figures, Spain
DIED?
January 23, 1989•Figures, Spain
STYLE?
Draftsman, Surrealist, Mostly Renaissance, Painter, Sculpture, Drawing, Film, Photography
MEDIA?
oil paint on canvas
PERSONAL INFORMATION?
- married Elena Dialconva
- had brothers and a sister
- attended drawing school
- his mother died of cancer
- had interest in math and science
Personal information?
- They think he had Parkinson's Disease
- his right hand trembled because of it
- His wife gave him dangerous cocktails and medicine
- they damaged his nervous system
- this caused him to end his art career
personal information?
- 1984 fire in bedroom could have been suicide attempt
PERIOD OF ART
- surrealism
- cubism
- modern art
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
"Have no fear if perfection, you'll never reach it"
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"
"I dont do drugs, I am drugs"
BURING GIRAFFE IN BORN •OILPAINT•Kunstmuseum Basel
The persistence of memory •the museum of modern art, New York•