This document provides biographical information on several famous Spanish creators and artists, including Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Montserrat Caballé, Antoni Gaudí, and Miguel de Cervantes. It details their dates of birth and death, nationalities, and professional activities. For each person, it provides 1-2 paragraphs summarizing their artistic accomplishments and impact, with Salvador Dalí noted for his surrealist paintings like The Persistence of Memory, Joan Miró influencing surrealism through his dreamlike works, and Montserrat Caballé achieving international success as one of the greatest opera sopranos of the 20th century.

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2. SALVADOR DALÍ i DOMÈNECH

3. DATE OF BIRTH: May 11th 1904
DATE OF DEATH: January 23rd 1989
NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
- Art Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture,
writing
- Movement Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism

4. Marquis of Púbol (Figueres, 11 May 1904-23 January 1989) was a
painter, decorator, Catalan writer and thinker, one of the leading
representatives of surrealism. Usually attributed pictorial skills to
influence and admiration for Renaissance art. Dalí had the ability to
forge a recognizable personal style. It considered himself better painter
and writer who claimed that if you had to go down in history preferred
to do as a thinker, humorous attitude, but if on the one hand catapulted
to fame ever seen of another seriously hindered the study of philosophy

5. In painting, one of his best known works is The Persistence of Memory,
also called "the soft clocks", which dates from 1931. In writing, it is
considered that his work is the capital autobiography "The Secret Life
Salvador Dali, "which dates back to 1942 and start saying" six years I
wanted to be a cook, seven Napoleon, and my ambition has been
growing since then. " His major works, where he worked until the last
years of his life were the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres and himself.
Although their main means of expression were painting and writing,
also made inroads in the fields of film, sculpture, fashion, jewelery,
decoration and theater, a discipline in which he worked as a costume
designer and set designer.
He knew his role public work greatly. His wife and muse, Gala Dalí was
one of the leading characters in his biography and economic
management,

7. JOAN MIRÓ i FERRÀ

8. DATE OF BIRTH: April, 20th 1893
DATE OF DEATH: December, 25th 1983
NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
-Painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture,
ceramics
- Surrealism
- Influenced by: Modest Urgell

9. Joan Miró was a painter, sculptor, engraver and
ceramist Catalan, considered one of the
leading representatives of surrealism. In his
work reflected his interest in the subconscious
and his country. His early works show strong
influences Fauvist, cubist and expressionist
painting evolving towards a more flat, as is his
famous painting The house of 1921-1922,
which evokes the summer but the family
Monroig del Camp.

10. After his stay in Paris, his work becomes more
dreamlike, coinciding with the guidelines of
surrealism but without joining formally this
movement. In numerous interviews and writings
dating from the 1930s, Miró expressed his desire
to leave the conventional painting methods, in his
own words is based on "kill them, kill them or
violate them," to promote a form expression that
was contemporary, not wanting to bend to the
demands or the aesthetics of these methods,
even in its commitments towards the surreal.

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13. MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ I FOLCH

14. DATE OF BIRTH: April, 12th 1933
NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
- Soprano singer

15. She is a Catalan soprano and opera singer.
She is one of the greatest opera sopranos in the
second half of the twentieth century.
A renowned for his technique and his
interpretations of the great bel canto roles of
Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.

16. INTERNATIONAL SUCCES
The first international success of Caballé was in 1965 when he replaced
the indisposed Marilyn Horne in the representation of Lucrezia
Borgia in Carnegie Hall in New York.
Its representation sensation and made famous in the opera world, to
say the New York Times that his voice was the union of Maria Callas
and Renata Tebaldi.
The same year she made her debut at Glyndebourne Festival and the
Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. In 1972 La
Scala debut in Bellini's Norma and Violetta in La Traviata at the
Royal Opera House-Covent Garden in London.

17. Montserrat Caballé sang over eighty operatic roles, from
baroque opera to Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, including
works by Richard Strauss. He has also sung popular
Spanish songs.
His voice is remarkable for its purity, its precise control
and its power. It is less admired by his dramatic
instincts and their interpretative skills for his superb
technique, vocal nuance and exquisite pianissimos.
Caballé has also made forays into pop music and
Caballé in duet with rock singer Freddie Mercury,
Barcelona, ​​became the unofficial anthem of the
Olympic Games of Barcelona 1992.

18. It was one of the top ten women who seek
admission in 2000 to the Cercle del Liceu. [9]
Since he retired from the stage, Caballé has
been devoted to charitable activities. It's
Goodwill Ambassador to UNESCO and has
created a foundation for needy children in
Barcelona. In July 2008 gave Manifiesto por la
lengua support policy role by claiming the
Spanish throughout the Spanish territory

20. ANTONI GAUDÍ I CORNET

21. DATE OF BIRTH: June, 25th 1852
DATE OF DEATH: June, 10th 1926
NATIONALITY: Catalonia, Spain
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
- Architect

22. Antoni Gaudí was Catalan architect who has been
internationally recognized as one of the most important
geniuses of their discipline.
Gaudí moved to studied architecture at the city of
Barcelona, ​​where his first works were influenced by various
styles such as Gothic, Moorish, Baroque up to the explosion
of modernism, in which achieve implement their own style,
with the use of its studies on the nature and forms of
regulated geometry, the use of all the applied arts for the
decoration of their buildings and the recovery for the
ornamentation of the ancient mosaic Gaudí transformed
into brittle, become a new technique.

23. His contribution to architecture is unique and is
considered one of the greatest exponents of
modernism.
From childhood Gaudí was an attentive observer of
nature, which are attracted to shapes, colors and
geometry.
Despite having made great buildings, which are becoming
more monographs, the most fame has given the world
is undoubtedly the Sagrada Familia, the work still
under construction and, as it stands , its popularity
continues to grow and admiration.

25. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA

26. DATE OF BIRTH: September, 29th 1547
DATE OF DEATH: April, 22nd 1616
NATIONALITY: Spain
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
- Novelist,
- poet
- playwright

27. He was a Spanish writer, best known for his novel Don
Quixote. It is considered one of the most influential
writers of literature, and his works have inspired and
film adaptations have changed the way we understand
the novel, especially in the Hispanic and English.
In prison "begat" The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de
la Mancha, says the preface of this work. It is not
known if this term meant he started writing while
imprisoned, or simply that there came the idea.
In 1605 he published the first part of what would be his
main work: The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la
Mancha.

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