Salvador Dali

Spanish Catalan painter, draughtsman, illustrator, sculptor, writer, and film maker. Most significan artistic contribution through association with surrealism.

Painted for much of his life in house he bought in Port Lligat. Dali first in contact with painting though Ramon Pichot, a friend of his father's. By 1928, Dali was moving towards Surrealism. Dali's principal theoretical contribution to surrealism was his 'paranoiac-critical method'.

Married Gala Eluard, 1934.

Went through severe depression in 1987 and then dies of heart failure on January 23, 1989 in Figueres.