Salvador Dalí

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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1. When was Salvador Dalí born?May 11, 1904
2. When did Salvador Dalí die?January 23, 1989 (age 84)
3. Where was Salvador Dalí born?Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
4. What is the artistic method?Paranoiac-critical method
5. What is the major works?The Persistence of Memory (1931), The Great Masturbator (1929)

Surrealism: A 20th-century avant-garde movement that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, characterized by dreamlike imagery and irrational juxtapositions.
Avant-garde: Innovative or experimental work or ideas, especially in the arts.
Subconscious: The part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but affects behavior and awareness.
Paranoiac-critical method: Dalí's technique of simulating paranoid states to access subconscious imagery and render it with hyperrealism.