SALVADOR DALI

Salvador Dali, like Pablo Picasso, was a famous painter. He was a Surrealist painter. Surrealism is a style of painting that shows imaginative dreams and thoughts. Dali was a pioneer of Surrealist art and still has a great influence on today’s designers and artists.

Like Picasso, Dali was Spanish, born in 1904. Dali showed a great drawing ability at an early age and started his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. He had his first art exhibition when he was fifteen. At the age of eighteen, he went to the art college in Madrid. Dali was asked to leave his college after he got in trouble with some other students. He decided to move to Paris where he met his idol, Picasso and began to bring his art to life.

Dali’s interesting paintings and designs made him well known both in Europe and America. In 1940, he moved to the United States and lived there for eight years before returning to Spain. During his life, Dali never stopped painting. He also made films and designed furniture. In 1960, he built a museum for his paintings. Dali was a radical character for his era because of his crazy ideas, funny clothes and unusual personality. People thought he was either a genius or insane. He died when he was 84 years old. No matter what people thought about him, his ideas surely changed art, design and advertising for ever.