Salvador Dali (11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989), one of the surrealist painters, was also interested in different fields of art as well as being a painter. In addition to his works, he also attracted attention with his colorful and different personality and style.
Dali benefited from cubism and dadaism movements in his early works. He opened his first personal exhibition in 1925. He met Pablo Picasso in Paris. In the period after they met, he also carried the influence of Picasso.
His best-known work is The Persistence of Memory. The work was written as a criticism against the rigidity of the concept of time. Since Dali was interested in the expression of the subconscious, he followed Sigmund Freud fondly. Dali settled in the USA during the Second World War and stayed there for 9 years. He settled in his hometown, Catalonia, with his wife in 1947 and lived there until his death. He developed a different style, influenced by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the war. He frequently used paint splattering on canvas, holograms and optical illusions in a style he called nuclear mysticism.Dalí died of heart failure on January 23, 1989, and was buried in the crypt of the museum bearing his name in Figueres
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