Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali Salvador Dali is known as one of the great surrealist painters of the 20th century. Salvador was born May 11, 1904, in the Catalan town of Figueras, near Barcelona, Spain. Dali first began painting at the age of 10 and at the age of 12 he went on a vacation with an artistic family, the Pichots. Ramon Pichot was Dali's first role model when it came to painting, he greatly influenced Dali with his artwork. Dali later …

…he lived as a recluse in a room adjacent to his Teatro-Museum. He is now buried in his museum, surrounded by his art, which was his life. Works Cited Finkelstein, Haim. Salvador Dali's art and writing, 1927-1942 : the metamorphoses of Narcissus. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. Ades, Dawn. Dali and Surrealism. New York : Harper & Row, 1982. Morse, Albert Reynolds. Dali: A study of his life and work. Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society [1958]