ANOTHER DALLIANCE WITH DALI
Some odd additional notes about the life of Salvador Dali
Dali believed he was the reincarnation of his older brother also called Salvador, who died 9 months before the artist's birth.
Dali would travel to Paris in 1929 to become a Surrealist.
His work was considerably influenced by Sigmund Freud’s theories on psychoanalysis and sexual repression.
In the 1930s he developed his 'paranoiac-critical' method, which allowed him to gain access his subconscious mind.
The Surrealists later expelled Dalí for his glorification of Fascism and his obsession with Hitler.
Dali met his wife, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, known as Gala, when she was still married to the artist Paul Éluard.
Dali created his most famous painting The Persistence of Memory when he was completely without funds.
His iconic moustache had an allegedly literary inspiration.
Sex frightened him, but despite this he was also obsessed with it.
He had a talent for fashion design and collaborated with designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
He was something of a capitalist and made money whenever he could.
He designed a jewelled-ruby heart which actually beats.
He had a terrible fear of grasshoppers.
Dalí reached the heights of his fame in America, but his critical reception later went into decline.
After the war, Dalí developed a new style which he dubbed “Nuclear Mysticism,” with which he claimed he could view religion through a scientific lens.
Dalí and Gala grew apart in their last years, but when she died in 1982, he was cast into a state of deep depression.
Ill, bedridden and depressed, Dali lived alone in last years in isolation at his castle in Púbol, Spain.
After a prolonged legal battle in which a Spanish fortune teller claimed to be Dali's daughter, the Dali's body was exhumed in 2018 for paternity testing. Her claim turned out to be bogus!
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After a prolonged legal battle in which a Spanish fortune teller claimed to be Dali's daughter, the Dali's body was exhumed in 2018 for paternity testing. Her claim turned out to be bogus!
Visit the museum dedicated to this great genius: