| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 藝術研究所美術組碩士在職專班 === 94 === Salvador Dali, Spanish Surrealist Artist, 1904-1989. Salvador Dali was a flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. Born into a middle-class family, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he mastered academic techniques. Dali also pursued his personal interest in Cubism and Futurism and was expelled from the academy for indiscipline in 1923. He formed friendships with Lorca and Buñuel, read Freud with enthusiasm and held his first one-man show in Barcelona, where he exhibited a number of seascapes. He wrote the screenplay for Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou (produced in 1928), largely thanks to which he was adopted by the Surrealists. In Paris he met Picasso and André Breton, and his effervescent activity, flair for getting publicity through scandal and vivacity which counterbalanced the political difficulties encountered by the group, made him a particularly welcome addition. In 1934 Dalí and Gala were married in a civil ceremony. In 1939, his fellow Surrealist artists officially expelled Dalí from the Surrealist group for political reasons; Marxism was the preferred doctrine in the movement, while Dalí declared himself to be an "Anarcho-Monarchist". Other Surrealists henceforth would speak of Dalí in the past tense, as if he were dead. Salvador Dali is considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. During his lifetime the public got a picture of an eccentric paranoid. His personality caused a lot of controversy. After his death in 1989 his name remained in the headlines. But this time it was not funny at all. The art market was shaken by reports of great numbers of fraudulent Dali prints. What's all behind it?
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