SALVADOR DALI. HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was best...
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SALVADOR DALI. HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was best known for the striking (llamativo) and bizarre (estrafalario) images in his surrealist work. Dalí's older brother, also named Salvador (born October 12, 1901), had died of gastroenteritis nine months earlier, on August 1, 1903. His father, Salvador Dalí i Cusí, was a middle-class lawyer ( abogado) and notary, whose strict disciplinary approach (considerar) 0was tempered by his wife, Felipa Domenech Ferrés. Dalí also had a sister, Anna Maria, who was three years younger. In 1949, she published a book about her brother, Dalí As Seen By His Sister. His childhood friends included future FC Barcelona footballers Sagibarba and Josep Samitier. Dalí attended drawing school. In 1916, Dalí also discovered modern painting on a summer vacation
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