DALI, Salvador
(1913–1989)
DALI, Salvador (11 May 1904–23 January 1989). A painter and filmmaker, Dali is best remembered for meticulously rendered Surrealist paintings that portray a dreamlike world with images of melting watches and half-open drawers suggesting erotic resonances. Such paintings influenced subsequent realists, sometimes called Magic Realists, who adopted the Surrealist interest in dream imagery while primarily portraying the real world. Dali also collaborated with Luis Bñnuel on two classic avant-garde…