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Salvador Dalí

May 11, 1904 - Jan 23, 1989 (84 years old) in Figueres, Girona, Catalunya, Spain

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: [səɫβəˈðo ðəˈɫi]), was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had an affinity for partaking in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem and to the irritation of his critics.

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Known For

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What's My Line?
Self
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À bout portant
Self
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Dim Dam Dom
Self
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
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Un Chien Andalou
Seminarist (uncredited)
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Self (archive footage)
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God Chose Paris
Self (archive footage)
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Dali's Greatest Secret
Self (archive footage)
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
Self (archive footage)
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Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)

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