Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí is a painter, printmaker and sculptor of Spanish nationality, who was born in 1904 and died in 1989. He is one of the best known representatives of surrealism, to which he became associated in the 1920s, on the advice of Joan Miró. After an American period, during World War II, he returned to Spain in 1949 and remained there until his death. Excluded from the surrealist movement, he moved closer to Catholicism and developed an approach he called "corpuscular mysticism". The recurring themes in his work include sexuality, dreams, religion and his wife Gala, who was his muse for a long time.