Salvador Dali
Born into a middle-class family, Salvador Dali studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he mastered his academic techniques. Dalí also pursued his personal interest in Cubism and Futurism and was expelled from the academy for indiscipline in 1923. He read Freud with enthusiasm and held his first one-man show in Barcelona (1925), where he exhibited a number of seascapes. He wrote the screenplay for Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou", which is why he was adopted by the Surrealists. In Paris he met artists Picasso and Breton, and his involvement from 1929 onwards, his flair for getting publicity through scandal and his liveliness which counterbalanced the political difficulties encountered by the group, made him a particularly welcome addition.
Over the next few years Dalí devoted himself with passionate intensity to developing his method, which he described as 'paranoiac-critical', a 'spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and......
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