Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts where he met Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca. Dalí was deeply affected by having the same name as his older brother who died before he was born. He became famous for his surrealist style of painting, though some of his earliest works were more realistic. Dalí had a long career as a painter and lived until 1989 when he died of cardiac failure in his hometown of Figueras.

1. DALÍ
2 ESO F
Martin Brea
Miguel Lorente
Diego Márquez

2. Nacimiento
Salvador Dalí was born on the
11th may 1904 at the 8:45 am, in
figueras, a province of
Gerona.Salvado

3. Los miedos de Dalí:
● Scared of the life:
"Take away what life is".
It was what Dalí said in his final stage when light came through the window. "I
do not want to see her anymore, she reminds me too much of life". Darkness
to such a point that I picked up a notebook and smudged with black pages
that I then wrinkled and threw to the floor
● Tries of mental incapacitation:
There were some occasions, which Dalí hospitalized (due to burns) was
attempted to incapacitate and it was the judicial world itself that stopped
those attempts. "What happened to him was that he was depressed

4. FAMILY
FELIPA
(MOTHER)
SALVADOR DALÍ CUSÍ
(FATHER)
SALVADOR DALÍ
(PAINTER)
ANNA MARÍA
(SISTER)
SALVADOR DALÍ
(DEAD
BROTHER)

5. Important Facts I
In the decade of the twenties, Dalí studied in the Royal
Academy of Fine Arts de San Fernando, where he met the
cineast Luis Buñuel and the writer Federico García
Lorca.
Luis Buñuel
Federico García Lorca.

6. Hechos importantes II
His older brother was named “Salvador”, but he
died in 1903 of an stomach flu nine months
before he was born. His father decided to name
him the same; this always affected the painter
because his father said he was the
reincarnation of his brother.

7. FACTS ABOUT DALI
● He has an anteater like a pet and he had walks with him on the streets of
Paris.
● His strange moustache was inspired in two characters:
○ Josep Margarit, a Catalan militar whose picture was in his father’s house.
○ Diego Velázquez, the master painter of Andalusia, admired by the genius of Figueres.
● When he was a kid he was a big football fan. he passed his whole
childhood practicing this sport next to some future players of FC
Barcelona, like Emilio Sagi Liñán o Josep Samitier.

8. His first
painting
This Dali painting is a landscape
near Figueres created in 1910,
when he was 6 years old.
He decided he wanted to become
a painter after having painted this
landscape.

9. Adolescence painting
Adolescence , Dalí painting in which he draws
himself when he was a child with his babysitter
Lucía, and the hidden image probably represents
Gala. It is in an unknown location after having
been stolen in a museum in the Netherlands in
2009.

10. 21 years: The most famous painting
One of his first works was made in 1925 by
the artist, made in oil during his stage
learning to become a painter. He had not
yet specialized in surrealism, so his first-
born works were endowed with a realistic
style. This painting is called Girl in the
window.

11. The funny thing about the picture of the girl in the
window
People thought that Dalí was not the painter
of this painting because Dalí's style was
surrealist and this painting is called realistic.
Dalí was asked to paint a second version of
this painting because he wanted to paint his
sister in the window, and a girl came out, as
the name of the painting says, so he did it
twice.

12. Dali`s Death
Dalí died the 23d january 1989 in Figueras. he died as a result of a cardiac
failure.