BIOGRAPHY
• Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali Domenech
• born: 11th May 1904 in Figueras
• at ten he painted a self-portreit titled "Ill Child”
• expelled from San Fernando School of Fine Art
• twice expelled from the Royal Academy in Madrid
• joined Paris surrealist group
• first surrealist painting ”Honey is sweeter than blood”
• painted the world of the unconscious
• met Gala Helena Deluviana Diakonoff Eluard Honey is sweeter than blood
• expelled from the surrealist group
• contoversial auto-biography "the secret life of Salvador Dali”
• Gala's death in 1982• Dali's health began to fail • 1983 - last work, "The
Swallow´s Tail”• January 23, 1989, Salvador
Dali died from heart failure and respiratory complications
• buried in the crypt-mausoleum of the Museum Theatre in Figueras. Galatea
SECRET LIFE• autobiography The secret
life of Salvador Dali• marketing a product - his
own art• "The difference between
false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
The secret life of Salvador Dali - cover
• "It is not important what you do as long as you are in the headlines."
• ”Disorder has to be created systematically."
• “The only diference between me and a mad man is that I am not mad.”
• 5 years:- pushed a little boy of a bridge- put a dead bat coverd with ants in his mouth and bit it in half
• 6 years: kicks his three-year old sister in the head
• “When I was six years old I wanted to be a cook and when I was seven, Napoleon. Since then my ambitions has soared without ceasing.”
• adolescence- five-year plan with a girl who was in love with him
• necrophilia: dead faces, skulls, corpses of animals
Skull made of women
• 29: knocked down and trampled a girl “until they had to tear her, bleeding, out of my reach”
• made coctails out of his own blood in a bar in the Ritz
• asociated animal glue, death and dung with sex
• exhibited an image of the Sacred heart across which he had written "sometimes I spit on the portrait of my mother
Ballerina in a death’s head
• Sister Ana Mariain claimed Dali had a normal and happy youth
• his long-time secretary described Dali as a normal person• his fellow students remembered Dali as bashful, morbidly
shy and litteraly sick with timidity
Swallow’s tail
WORK• paintings• sculptures• design for Coco Chanel• illustrations• literature - over 500
documents• film making with Hitchcock
and Walt Disney• 15 exhibitions on three
continets• the only artist with two
official museums: Figueres, Spain, and Saint Petersburg, Florida
Dali’s museum in Figueres