Artist dali salvador paintings history

He is perhaps best known for his painting The Persistence of Memory , showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn't stop him from painting. It was here that his parents built him an art studio before he entered art school.

He was not a serious student, preferring to daydream in class and stand out as the class eccentric, wearing odd clothing and long hair. After that first year at art school, he discovered modern painting in Cadaques while vacationing with his family. There, he also met Ramon Pichot, a local artist who frequently visited Paris.

Salvador dali art style

By , the young artist had his first public exhibition, at the Municipal Theatre of Figueres. He stayed at the school's student residence and soon brought his eccentricity to a new level, growing long hair and sideburns, and dressing in the style of English Aesthetes of the late 19th century. During this time, he was influenced by several different artistic styles, including Metaphysics and Cubism, which earned him attention from his fellow students—though he probably didn't yet understand the Cubist movement entirely.

He returned to the academy in , but was permanently expelled shortly before his final exams for declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him. He also dabbled in avant-garde art movements such as Dada, a post-World War I anti-establishment movement.