Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in Figueras (Spain) in 1904. From 1921until 1925, he studied at the Academy San Fernando of Madrid; he became friendwith the poet Federico García Lorca and the film-maker Luis Buñuel there.

His first personal exhibition is organized in 1925 (Gallery Dalmau,Barcelona), exhibition in which Picasso and Miro began being interested in hisworks. Dali was influenced at first by the futurism, then by the cubism (1925).In April 1926, Dali made his first journey in Paris, where he visited Picasso.During a second journey in Paris in 1929, on the occasion of the shooting of thefilm of Buñuel " Un chien Andalou” (Dali is a co-writer), Miro introduced himinto the surrealist group.

Dali met André Breton and Gala, his future wife and muse (she was first PaulEluard’s wife). He adhered to the surrealist group in 1929. Dali was theninterested in the psychoanalytical theories of Freud and he worked out hismethod "paranoiac-critic". A that time, He painted, dreamlike and fantasticalspaces full of symbolic elements: soft watches, crutches, fantastic animals,distorted persons. Although he was excluded in 1934 from the surrealists group,he still participated in the demonstrations and the surrealist exhibitions.

Dali reinterpreted famous works, as the Angelus of Millet, several versionsof which he gave. Breton nicknamed him "Avida Dollars"! After the Spanish civilwar, he committed himself politically behind Franco. With the 40s, he wanted toget closer to the reality and he wished to have a more classic pictorialexpression, without neglecting however to print in his works his personal whim.The recurring subjects in the work paints, as in the work etched, were woman,sex, religion, and battles. Dali gave himself in spectacle throughout hiscareer, mixing the art and the life, staging constantly.

After ten years of efforts, Dali opened his own museum: in 1974, took placethe inauguration of the Teatro Museo Dali. The last passion of Dali was thestereoscopic painting (1975) and he presented one of his first stereoscopic workin New York in 1978. Salvador Dali which qualified himself "cannibal",“megalomaniac “and “polymorphic pervert ", died in Barcelona (Spain) in1989.