SALVADOR DALI´S
LIFE AND WORK
by Emilia Toledo
QUICK FACTS
Name: Salvador Dalí
Full Name: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domenech
Occupation: Painter
Birth Date: May 11, 1904
Death Date: January 23, 1989
Place of Birth: Figueres, Spain
Place of Death: Figueres, Spain
Education: Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto, Academia
de San Fernando
 In 1929 Salvador Dali joined the Surrealism movement.
 He painted what he dreamt.
 His paintings are full of images that combine dreams,
fantasy and imagination with the real world.
 These are some of his main paintings, let’s share them…
Title: Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a
Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
Date: 1944
Movement: Surrealism
Theme: Nude
Technique: Oil on canvas
Title: Woman at the Window at Figueres
Date: 1926
Movement: Surrealism
Theme: Portrait
Technique: Oil on canvas
Title: The Persistence of Memory
Date: 1931
Movement: Surrealism
Theme: Allegory
Technique: Oil on canvas
Title: Paranoiac Woman-Horse (Invisible Sleeping
Woman, Lion, Horse)
Date: 1930
Movement: Surrealism
Theme: Abstract
Technique: Oil on wood
Rose meditative
The Elephants
MORE PAINTINGS
FUENTES
http://sergejbag.deviantart.com/art/Salvador-Dali-2012-484160910
http://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/woman-at-the-window-in-
figueras-1926
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hisgett/4693749706/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shakestercody/2169139962/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/yannisphaedra/1379455678/
http://www.bodyofart.com/es/explore/gallery/exhibition-
project/9504/
http://www.parkwestgallery.com/freuds-influence-on-dalis-
surreal-dream-painting/8948

Toledo emilia