Salvador Dali Posters
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali I Domenech was born in Figueres, Spain on the 11th of May in 1904. Figueres is located in the foothills of Pyreness just 17 miles from the French Border, and was a very small agriculture town. His father is the well-known notary, and he spent most of his childhood in the town he was born. His first studio was built in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques, where the famous Salvador Dali Posters were first born. He had a special love for Port Lligat in Spain, which reflected in hi Posters, this is also where he married his wife.
Salvador Dali was recognized early on in his show's at Barcelona in 1925, he studied at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He became known international when three of his posters displayed in the Carnegie International Exhibition where shown. This collection included "The Basket of Bread" which is now in the Museum's Collection.
He joined other surrealists lead by Dadaist Andre Bretoon, in a one-man show in Paris in 1929. This was the year he also met his wife to be Gala Eluard. Gala filled the roll of Salvador's manager, and general manager.
"The Persistance of Memory", Salvador Dali's most famous piece pushed him into becoming the leader in the Surrealist movement. However, he was expelled from the group during a trial as World War II approached in 1934.
He and his wife escaped to the United States from Europe where they spend 1940 to 1948. His major retrospective exhibit took place at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1941 which was followed with the publication of The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, his autobiography in 1942.
Salvador Dali posters range from scientific to historical to religious themes as he moved away from Surrealism into his classic period. Among his well renowned works are The Hallucinogenic Toreador and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, which were already in the museum's collection and The Sacrament of the Last Supper which was in the National Gallery collection in Washington, D.C.
Salvador Dali posters are not limited by nature. There was no particular media or style that he specifically used. From his impressionist paintings to his surrealist works to his classical period, he evolved and grow as an internationally know artist. Salvador Dali posters gave the impression to explore all aspects of life to give off a better form of art.