Salvador Dali was a famous Spanish surrealist painter born in 1904 who is known for blending dreams, fantasy and imagination with reality in his paintings. Some of his most notable works include The Persistence of Memory from 1931, which features melting clocks, and Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening from 1944. The document provides brief biographical information on Dali and summaries of several of his paintings from the 1920s-1940s that exemplify his surrealist style.