Salvador Dali is a Spanish painter who in the twentieth century became one of the most prominent representatives of surrealism. His paintings, filled with allusions and similar to dreams, are stored today in the best museums in the world and private collections.
Like most geniuses, in childhood Dali was considered an “uncontrollable” child. At school, he was an outcast, the subject of bullying peers, and at the Academy of San Fernando, by contrast, was considered a boor and a snob. For a too free manner of communicating with the Academy professors, the hot-tempered Spaniard was expelled from the institution. However, in a paradoxical way, it benefited him: in search of new experiences, Salvador Dali was in Paris, where he found senior comrades in painting and a woman who became the only passion of his life.
Most of Dali's paintings were created thanks to his wife, the ambitious Gala. She perfectly understood that she had married a genius, and felt the responsibility entrusted to her: she found the wife of buyers for his work, persuaded him not to give up painting. One of the most loyal fans of Salvador's work was Albert and Eleanor Morse, spouses from the United States of America. For forty years of business and friendship with Dali and Gala, they have collected in a private collection about a hundred oil paintings and as many watercolors of the great surrealist. Today, all these works can be viewed at the Dali Museum, opened since 1984 in the US city of St. Petersburg, Florida.
The Salvador Dali European Art Collection is located in Paris on Montmartre, at 11 rue Poulbot. Here, visitors can see not only paintings, but also sculptures and engravings by the craftsman. There are also several sculptures in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and etchings in the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, but there are no paintings by Dali in permanent Russian exhibitions.
The Reina Sofia Art Center in Madrid, located on Calle Santa Isabel 52, has a permanent collection of some of the most famous paintings of his brilliant fellow countryman. Here is the "Portrait of Louis Bunuel" of 1924, and the "Great Masturbator" of 1929, and many of his other works.
However, those cult paintings that, without exaggeration, have been seen by anyone who is even a little familiar with contemporary art, are, oddly enough, not in the master’s homeland, but in two North American cities. "Constancy of memory", in the plot of which "fused" clocks are used, decorates the New York Museum of Modern Art. And the controversial "Last Supper" is the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Faddish in life, Dali decided not to arrange his death in the same way as it should. According to his will, the burial of the artist in his native Spanish city of Figueres is made so that visitors to the Dali Theater and Museum where the coffin is located can see him. By the way, Dali designed his last refuge on his own.
- Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg
- The official website of Salvador Dali
- paintings of salvador gave a look
