Name
Salvador Dalí
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1904-05-11
Deathday
1989-01-23 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Figueres, Girona, Catalunya, Spain
Biography
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol GYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Born in Figueres in Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.
Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, sculpture, film, graphic arts, animation, fashion, and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays, and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art, popular culture, and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
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- 1969 God Chose Paris as Self (archive footage)
- 1929 Un Chien Andalou as Seminarist (uncredited)
- 2019 The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders as Self - Painter (archive footage)
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- 2003 Gala as Self (archive footage)
- 1969 Fun and Games for Everyone
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- 2023 L'Âge d'or de la pub as Self (archive footage)
- 1971 Johnny Minotaur
- 2014 Dali's Greatest Secret as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 Mike Wallace Is Here as (archive footage)
- 2013 Jodorowsky's Dune as Self - Painter (archive footage)
- 1965 Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- 1967 A Season with Mankind as Self (archive footage)
- 1984 Good Morning, Mr. Orwell as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 Salvador Dalí at Work as Self (archive footage)
- 1969 Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali as Self
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- 1966 Screen Test #3 as Self (uncredited)
- 1971 As Far as Love Can Go as Salvador Dalí (uncredited)
- 2015 Dali's Last Masterpiece as Self
- 2018 Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 Filmmakers in Action as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar as Self (archive footage)
- 2001 Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture as Self (archive footage)
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- 2003 The End of a Mystery as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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- 2026 The Last Election as Self
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- 1999 This Is Modern Art as Salvador Dalí (archive footage)
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1968 À bout portant ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 V.I.P. Schaukel ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1965 Dim Dam Dom ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 Night-Club ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Salvador Dalí. In Search of Immortality ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1994 Eurovizija.LT ( 1 episode ) as Art director(archive footage)
- 1964 Pour le plaisir ( 1 episode ) as Self
