Salvador Dali (full name: Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech) was born today, on May 11, in Figueras in Catalonia (Spain) in 1904. The excentric Dali is one of the most iridescent, charismatic personalities in modern art, and he's certainly the most popular representative of the art form known as "Surrealism" because of his brilliant and appealing visual style, along with Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte and Max Ernst. Almost everyone in the world probably knows the "melting clocks" in his image "La Persistance de la Memoire" from 1931:
http://www.essentialart.com/acatalog/SDal_..._of_Memory.html
A "Happy Birthday" to the Great Grandmaster of Surrealism and a "Thank You" for the many great, inspiring images!
![[Image: salvadordali.gif]](http://www.jordan.palo-alto.ca.us/department/public/art~mmedia/portraitquest2004/yutaro/portraitquest/salvadordali.gif)
"Dali as Mona Lisa" by Philippe Halsman
Official Links:
http://www.salvador-dali.org/eng/index.html
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/welcome/index.php
http://www.essentialart.com/acatalog/SDal_..._of_Memory.html
A "Happy Birthday" to the Great Grandmaster of Surrealism and a "Thank You" for the many great, inspiring images!
"Dali as Mona Lisa" by Philippe Halsman
Official Links:
http://www.salvador-dali.org/eng/index.html
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/welcome/index.php
"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays." -- Friedrich von Schiller