" SALVADOR DALI
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[ailu" in figlMraJlI,,~d (<./912) by Juan ('..-is
In 'b"itrly 'arla/ytic' ph_ "Cubi,,", Gri,'
pal"" t::QTCooDy lim;"d. A",und 1912, hi, to_
grr", ricb.,. and b, _d rt<=! bro,,'rIJ and <Y'''my
rbi!n In addiri(Jfl, b, ,,·wld rrjppJ, til< rurfaa in
,",uin M'''', all of ,;:bich marhd hi, ''''''-Nnmt
",":ard, Cub;',"', ''Ymb"r' ph""S
al,'ador )),Ii ,,-!S an irn::l'n::ssii>lc self· I<f. Eur(~lC~" Amen"" "'turning to SI"in in
puhlicist and the culti".,or of the art 1948. D.li's fame "'-.s al"",),, contr<II'cr$ial.
world's mOst famous mou>tache. The thanks n, his 1" "'''<:":Iti,,, ""hillitiof)i,,,, as much
t""hnic~1 brilli"n"" with which he could I"i", as t() the me<lia. "" in his own lili::time, h"
and draw g"'<: him equal facility for 1 10pularity sUPllOned twO m""'um,; <blicat<,1
rep""lucing "arious s l)'les. fmm Reali'm, ""elusi,,:lytlJ hisworu.
Imp",,,,ion"m and Culli,,,, to the M""firitll of
the Italians de Chiric" and Carra. Ilis ,,"'s:ttilitr
and ,lills also ext<:,,,k:d to sculpture and
fib,,-m' king.
The ,., ,,,enpl.), he w",'" ~" Huilutl's Un
Cbim Ant/Ill"" admitted Dali to the Surrealists'
group whcn hc m,"',,1 t() Paris in 1928. Tnis])ali's i",,,.I..,';on to Cubism and the an of
",Ihg.: <"AmC ah"ut through a fcllow SI" nia,,1
Juan Gris (1887-1927). lie was the mO.t al~<:
practitioner of Cuhism and e,,,I,,,,1 an
in<~,'idual al, ,,,l1ch through m<~iculous grid
drawings (he had originally studied
<"Tlgineeting). On arri,ing in Paris in 1906 , he
c"intid,,1 with his ,li""JI,et}""fFrcud's the,"yof ,.,nl,,1 among pj<::>.so's circle in ,\ '''''''nanre,
the un"",scious: ",",~ng 711, Inurpr"urion"f which included '\j)(Jllinai"" and ",",s
0,.,,,,,,, led to D.li's ""pha,is Of) dream imag.:ry champi"n,,1 1».' the writet Getuude Sttin. In
and his ~l1rano;ac-critic:t1" method. I.,cr }<:ar$, Di.ghilev {'(,,,,,,,i,,,ion,,l him to
lIowe,'cr, the anist's right_wing I><~iti<:":ll design f,,, the H.lku Rus«:s. Unfo<n",.,dy,
"iews <:":Iu,.,d an e,"Cntu.1 split with the G ris ,ulf",,,l ch",nic d'l",::,,;on and I"'ysical
Surrealists. As w"lr Immed in 1939 , he and Gala illness, which bo-ought 1 hout his early ,k:.,h.