Презентация на тему: Salvador Dali and his life

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Artist Salvador Dali is most famous for his surreal paintings.

1904: Born on 11 May in Figueres. Son of the notary public Salvador Dalí Cusí and his wife Felipa Domènech Ferrés.

1910: Salvador’s father decided to enroll him at the Hispano-French School of the Immaculate Conception in Figueres, where he learned French.

1916: Salvador spent time at an estate owned by the Pichot family, a family of intellectuals and artists. It was there that he discovered Impressionism.

1921: Salvador’s mother died in February. The following year, his father married Catalina Domènech Ferrés, his sister-in-law.

1923: He was expelled from the Academia de San Fernando, accused of having led a student protest.

1925: Salvador presented his first individual art exhibit.

1927: He held his second individual exhibition in Barcelona.

1929: Salvador met his future wife, Gala, who was married to another man.

1934: Marries Gala. Traveled to America for the first time.

1937: In February he met the Marx Brothers in Hollywood. Along with Harpo, he began work on the script for a film entitled Giraffes on Horseback Salad (but called in its latest version The Surrealist Woman), which was never actually produced.

1939: In May he signed a contract to take part in the World’s Fair of New York. He designed the Dream of Venus pavilion, which was presented in the Fair’s amusement zone.

1944: In Life magazine he published an article entitled “Nightmare Journey” and created a cover for Vogue.

1945: He went to Hollywood to work with Alfred Hitchcock on the film Spellbound, whose dreamlike sequences were created by Dalí.

1946: Designed covers for EtCetera magazine and the Christmas issue of Vogue. Walt Disney hired Dalí to help produce the film Destino.

1955: He made the Portrait of Laurence Olivier in the Role of Richard III, to promote the film Richard III, based on the work by Shakespeare.

1969: Dalí purchased Púbol Castle and decorated it for Gala. Various books illustrated by Dalí were published: Goethe’s Faust and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

1989: Dalí died at Torre Galatea on 23 January.

Works Cited List "Dalí, Salvador." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.28  Apr.  2008 <http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article- 9028592>.