Salvador Dali: His Life and Paintings

Salvador Dali is one of the most sensational artists of the XX century. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting, he joined the Surrealists in 1929. Surrealism is an art movement that explored and celebrated the realm of dreams and unconscious mind through creation of visual art, poetry, and motion pictures. Among surrealism's most important contributions was the invention of new artistic techniques …

…reaching the top of a cross - all this gives rise to inexplicable sincere fear, an intuitive presentiment. Time meets with eternity, final - with infinite. The multilayered figurative structure of this work demands from the spectator complex associative reflections. Dali wrote his last work "Lit" in 1983. Salvador Dali passed away in 1989. He was buried in the center of his museum under undesignated plate. Salvador Dali marked the whole era in surrealism of 20-th century.