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Essay Archive - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new
movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali
studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was
able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia
Lorca, and Luis Bundel. He also was influenced by Italian futurists and the
metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico. In his early works, however,
Dali gave credit to his own Catalan sense of fantasy and his megalomania as
being his true motivating forces. Dali left the San Fernando Acadamy of
Fine Arts in 1926, and move to Paris where he freq....
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