Go to Links Return to Main Menu Salvador Dali Dali was born in Catalonia, Spain in 1904. He studied art formally in Spainand Paris during his youth. He joined the Surrealism movement in 1929 after meeting Andre Breton. Dali's style of paintings, perhaps, the most known among the surrealists. Overall, it is photorealistic.
Details are clear and sharp.
The subjectsof his paintings are often grotesque and hallucinatory, featuring distortedhuman shapes. Many times these biological forms will incorporate non-humanor mechanical forms. Dali left the Surrealist movement officially toward the end of the 1940'safter falling out with Breton. He eventually returned to his native Cataloniaand spent the rest of his life there. He died in 1989.