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    Salvador Dali Salvador Dali, was born Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech at 8:45 a.m., Monday, 11 May 1904, in the small town, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, of Figueres, Spain, approximately sixteen miles from the French border in the principality of Catalonia. His parents supported his talent and built him his first studio, while he was still a child, in their summer home. Dali went on to attend the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain, was married to Gala Eluard in

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    Crystal Sanderson Due July 14, 2017 Artist: Salvador Dali Title: The Agony of Love Created: 1978 Media used: Gouache, Watercolor, and Pencil on Board Dimensions: 65.5 by 49cm Art is a very important factor in all aspects of life. For many centuries art has been present in structures, cultures, religions, and even in the basic things we see in our daily routines. Art can come in a variety of ways, such as: paintings, drawings, symbols, sculptures, images, and much more. We all interpret and create

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    Salvador Dali Surrealism

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    1st Draft Salvador Dali is a Spanish artist known for being a key figure in Surrealism, which began as a cultural movement before transitioning to an artistic movement. Salvador Dali was born near Barcelona, Spain on May 11, 1904. In his early childhood, he was known to have “fits of anger against his parents and classmates and received cruel treatment from them in response” (Biography 1). As he continued school at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, his troublesome ways did as well. He was

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    1: Birthname: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali. Salvador Dali was an artist. January 23, 1989 would be the date of his death. Slide 2: Parents: His father is Salvador Daly y Cusi. Which was a middle-class lawyer. His mother's name is Felipa Domenech Ferres. She influenced art to Salvador at a young age. Salvador's father had a strict disciplinary approach to raising he's kids. His childhood would be full of anger towards his parents and classmates. Which resulted in Salvador being punished frequently

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    Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist, born on may 11, 1904, in figures, Spain. He died on January 23, 1989. Although he experimented with many art styles and art mediums within his lifetime, he is most famous for his surrealist paintings, and is one of the most prominent artists of the surrealist movement. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. At an early age, Salvador showed signs of strong artistic talent, and was

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    Word Count: 1283 Salvador Dali Museum The Salvador Dali museum was founded by Dali’s leading collectors, Reynolds and Eleanor Morse. They were not only friends of Dali but also private collectors of his work. The couple stored the collection in their home for a long period of time, the even agreed to loan two hundred pieces to a “New York Dali retrospective” before finally deciding to give the collection a permanent home. Dali encouraged the couple to build a museum in New York, although they

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    Salvador Dali Influences

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    Salvador Dali, a Spanish painter, known for his unusual and eccentric paintings. He was most well-known for his painting "The Persistence of Memory" which shocked his audiences and created a revolution of what art can do to its audiences. His art though thought-provoking was a portrayal of the unconscious desires of the mind and heart. His surrealist style led him to believe that “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." How does one imitate? As a Westernized citizen, imitating

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    III How did we know that Dali was a vain and conceited person? Salvador Dali was a 乙Yi wood day master born in the 巳Snake month. His wood was not born in season because the 巳Snake month represented the summer season. (Insert music example “The Lonely Bull” here.) Salvador Dali 11-5-1904 时 Hour 日 Day 月 Month 年 Year 庚 Geng Metal 乙 Yi Wood 已 Ji Earth 甲 Jia Wood 辰 Chen Dragon 巳 Si Snake 巳 Si Snake 辰 Chen Dragon 戊 乙 癸 Wu Yi Gui Earth Wood Water

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    The influence of surrealist art on society on the past centuries has been powerful, and artists like Salvador Dali contributed a lot to this form of art, in this research paper I piece together the career and life then by focusing on one of his remarkable artworks and trying to analyze it and how it affected the target audience of the culture and society and for all these topics which makes the main questions in my research paper I did a research to know more about them so that I can be able to link

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    Salvador Dali was born on the 11th of May 1904 in Spain. He was encouraged to practice his art from an early age of which would lead him into going to study at an academy in Madrid. Dali travelled to Paris in the 1920s to begin interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miro. This led him into his first surrealist phase, Dali is said to be most known for his painting in 1931 named The Persistence of Memory which showed melting clocks in a landscape setting. Dali enrolled in 1922 at

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