SALVADOR DALI

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), a Spanish painter, embodies one of the major figures of Surrealism, merging classical techniques and hallucinatory aesthetics to explore the unconscious.

Born in Figueras, he demonstrated a prodigious artistic aptitude from an early age, integrating Cubism, biomorphism, and visual metaphor. His painting illustrates the deconstruction of time and reality. Dalí claimed an obsession with automatism, using the technique of critical paranoia to reveal unconscious images. Eccentric and provocative, he also experimented with sculpture, film, and photography, consolidating a protean body of work where the imagination becomes visual experimentation.