Salvador Dali
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was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new
movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali
studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was
able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia
Lorca, and Luis Bundel. ....
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.... for his surrealist works. Surrealism is an art
style in which imagery is based on fantasy and the world of dreams. It is
thought have grown out of the French literary movement in the 1920's and
has it's roots in Dadaism. These painters developed a dreamlike, or
hallucinatory, imagery that was all the more startling for its highly
realistic rendering. Some of Dali's better known paintings are:
"Persistence Of Memory" also know popularly as "Soft Watches" (1931), and
"The Sacrament Of The Las ....
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