- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
Salvador Dalí joined the Surrealists in the late 1920s and quickly became the movement’s most theatrical public figure. His meticulously rendered dream images, developed through what he called the paranoiac-critical method, combine classical technique with unstable bodies, objects and landscapes.
Painting; drawing; sculpture; film; design; writing
Artist Films
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Major Works
- 1929The Great Masturbator
- 1931The Persistence of Memory
- 1936Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
- 1937Metamorphosis of Narcissus
- 1937The Burning Giraffe
- 1944Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
- 1951Christ of Saint John of the Cross
- 1952Galatea of the Spheres
- 1954Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
- 1969–70The Hallucinogenic Toreador
Interviews & Writing
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