Salvador Dalí

Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was an important Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. Dalí's work is noted for its striking combination of bizarre dreamlike images with excellent draftsmanship and painterly skills influenced by the Renaissance masters. Dalí was an artist of great talent and imagination. He had an admitted love of doing unusual things to draw attention to himself, which sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric theatrical manner sometimes overshadowed his artwork in public attention.

Notable works

Dalí produced over 1,500 paintings in his career, in addition to producing illustrations for books, lithographs, designs for theater sets and costumes, a great number of drawings, dozens of sculptures, and various other projects, including an animated cartoon for Disney. Below is a chronological sample of important and representative work.

Related Topics:
Animated cartoon - Disney

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• 1910 Landscape Near Figueras
• 1913 Vilabertin
• 1916 Fiesta in Figueras (begun 1914)
• 1917 View of Cadaqués with Shadow of Mount Pani
• 1918 Crepuscular Old Man (begun 1917)
• 1919 Port of Cadaqués (Night) (begun 1918) and Self-portrait in the Studio
• 1920 The Artist?s Father at Llane Beach and View of Portdogué (Port Aluger)
• 1921 The Garden of Llaner (Cadaqués) (begun 1920) and Self-portrait
• 1922 Cabaret Scene and Night Walking Dreams
• 1923 Self Portrait with L'Humanite and Cubist Self Portrait with La Publicitat
• 1924 Still Life (Syphon and Bottle of Rum) (for García Lorca) and Portrait of Luis Buñuel
• 1925 Large Harlequin and Small Bottle of Rum, and a series of fine portraits of his sister Anna Maria, most notably Figure At A Window
• 1926 Basket of Bread and Girl from Figueres
• 1927 Composition With Three Figures (Neo-Cubist Academy) and Honey is Sweeter Than Blood (his first important Surrealist work)
• 1929 Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) film in collaboration with Luis Buñuel.
• 1929 The Great Masturbator and The First Days of Spring
• 1930 L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) film in collaboration with Luis Buñuel.
• 1931 The Persistence of Memory (his most famous work, featuring the "melting clocks"), The Old Age of William Tell, and William Tell and Gradiva
• 1932 The Spectre of Sex Appeal, The Birth of Liquid Desires, Anthropomorphic Bread, and Fried Eggs on the Plate without the Plate. The Invisible Man (begun 1929) completed (although not to Dalí's own satisfaction).
• 1933 Retrospective Bust of a Woman (mixed media sculpture collage) and Portrait of Gala With Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Sholder
• 1934 The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table
• 1936 Autumn Cannibalism, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) and two works titled Morphological Echo (the first of which began in 1934).
• 1937 Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Swans Reflecting Elephants and The Burning Giraffe
• 1940 The Face of War
• 1943 The Poetry of America and Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
• 1944 Galarina and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening
• 1945, Basket of Bread-- Rather Death Than Shame and Fountain of Milk Flowing Uselessly on Three Shoes This year Dalí collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on a dream sequence to the film Spellbound, to mutual dissatisfaction.
• 1946 The Temptations of St. Anthony
• 1949 Leda Atomica and The Madonna of Port Lligat. Dalí returned to Catalonia this year.
• 1951 Christ of St. John of the Cross and Exploding Raphaelesque Head.
• 1954 Corpus Hypercubus Crucifixion, Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity and The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (begun in 1952).
• 1955 The Sacrament of the Last Supper
• 1956 Still Life Moving Fast
• 1958 The Rose
• 1959 The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
• 1960 Dalí began work on the Teatro-Museo Gala Salvador Dalí
• 1965 Dali donates a gouache, ink and pencil drawing of the Crucifixion to the Rikers Island jail in New York City. The drawing hung in the inmate dining room from 1965 to 1981.
• 1967 Tuna Fishing
• 1969 Chupa Chups logo
• 1970 The Hallucinogenic Toreador
• 1972 La Toile Daligram
• 1976 Gala Contemplating the Sea.
• 1977 Dali's Hand Drawing Back the Golden Fleece in the Form of a Cloud to Show Gala Completely Nude, Very Far Away Behind the Sun (stereoscopical pair of paintings)
• 1983 Dalí completed his final painting, The Swallow's Tail.
• 2003 Destino, an animated cartoon which was originally a collaboration between Dalí and Walt Disney, is released. Production on Destino began in 1945.

The largest collections of Dalí's work are the Teatro Museo Gala Salvador Dalí in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, followed by the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the Salvador Dalí Gallery in Pacific Palisades, California.

Related Topics:
Teatro Museo Gala Salvador Dalí - Salvador Dalí Museum - St. Petersburg, Florida - Pacific Palisades, California

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The unlikeliest venue for Dali's work was the Rikers Island jail in New York City: a sketch of the Crucifixion he donated to the jail hung in the inmate dining room for 16 years before it was moved to the prison lobby for safekeeping. The drawing was stolen in March 2003 by 4 prison guards and has not been recovered.

Related Topics:
Rikers Island - Crucifixion

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