Salvador Dali

is the central figure in surrealism and one of the most eccentric artists of the modern age. A brilliant painter and draughtsman, Dali described his style as “paranoid-critical”. Sexual and religious content is mixed with highly subjective and personal sensations. Death, decay and destruction are repeated themes.

Dali´s life was marred by an early identity crisis, which led to him living his life oscillating between exaggerated self-promotion and psychological self-destruction. Gala, his wife and muse, had to save him from many crisis. Meanwhile, Dali invented himself as a commercial object.

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