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Eugenio Salvador Dalí was with out doubt, a genius. At the age of 14 exhibit his works to critics, often was (and is still some times), misunderstood. When 22 meet Picasso and also was fired from the art school. Few years latter begun to be part of Paris surrealist´s group and there, start the relationship with Gala, that will go on until 1982 when she died. At the age of 79 Dalí painted his last work and past away in 1989 at the age of 85.

1903 His older brother Salvador, died at the age of seven from an attack of meningitis. Dali wrote that they resembled each other like two drops of water, but with different reflections. The profound sadness experienced by their parents was later translated in an unusually intense and permissive dedication towards  the new child, Dali.  1904 An artist is born in Figueres, Spain, at forty five minutes after eight o'clock on May 11; Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí. Son of Salvador Dali y Cusi from Cadaques, Gerona, and Felipa Dome Domenech from Barcelona. The meaning of his name "Salvador" indicated, as told by Dali, that he was 'destined to rescue and save painting from the mediocre catastrophes of modern art'. 1908 Ana María, his younger sister, is born. His only female model... until Gala came into picture!  1914 Marcel Duchamp designs what could be considered the first surrealist objects.

1914 Attends a private painting school.  1918 His first exhibition.  1920 André Bretón heads the surrealist movement and swears loyalty to nonsense, dreams, incoherence, hyperboles and everything that opposes to what is considered reality. 1921 Goes to an Art School in Madrid.  1921 His mother dies.  1923 He separated a year from school.  1924 André Bretón proposes the manufacture of objects that only appear in dreams.  1924  Dali dedicates his attention to the Metaphysical School created by Giorgio De Chirico and Carlo Carra. Where a rejection to Futurism and Cubism, and a return to the world of dreams and inner life was proposed.  1924 Arrested due to politic suspitions.  1924 André Breton surrealism manifest. It proposed a radical and systematic revision of received values, and a revaluation of the unconscious as a source of all artistic inspiration (Maddox).  1925 Back to Art Scholl.  1925 Met Garcia Lorca in Cadaques.  1925 First one-man show held in Barcelona. 1926 He is expelled from Art School.  1926 First Trip to Paris.  1927  He visits Pablo Picasso and experienced a great emotion when received by the Artist. He showed his respect and said "I have come to see you before visiting the Louvre" and Picasso responded "You have done right indeed".  1927 Concludes his military service.  1927 Joan Miró visits him in Cadaqués.  1928  He visits Paris and asks the taxi driver if he knows a good brothel. He then went to the famous "Chabanais" and was impressed by the cheap eroticism of its staircase.  1929 Second Surrealist Manifest.  1929 Meets other Surrealists and Elena Dimitrovna Diakonova (Gala).  1929 Collaborates with Luis Bruñuel with the film "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalutian Dog). The awkward sequences of this film pleased the surrealists, despite the fact that the public in general could not digest it's crude scenes.  1929  His first one-man exposition in the city of Paris.

1945 Works with Alfred Hitchcock producing the dream sequences of his film "Spellbound".  1946 Made some drawings for Walt Disney.  1947 In a painting contest organized by the cinematographic company Loew-Lewin; the work presented by Max Ernst won. The non-winning proposal of Dalí was "The Temptations of Saint Antthony".  1948 Returns to Europe; to Port Lligart...  1956 Washington exhibition.  1957 Designs a night club in Acapulco that would move and breathe. The project was never built.  1958 Dali and Gala meet the Pope.   1958 Marries Gala. 

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