Eugenio Salvador Dali

Eugenio Salvador Dalí was undoubtedly a genius. At the age of 14 he already had exhibited their work to critics, he was frequently (and sometimes art`s school), misunderstood. At the age of 22 he meet Picasso. He was also expelled from the school of art. Some years later he became part of the surrealist group in Paris, where he begins his relationship with Gala, which lasted until 1982 when she died. At the age of 79 Dalí painted his last work in 1989, dies at the age of 85.

1904: At 8 hours and 45 minutes from may 11th an artist was boen in Figueres, Spain, Eugenio Salvador Dalí. The meaning of his name "Salvador" is, according to Dalí,  that he was destined to rescue and save the mediocre painting of catastrophes of modern art.

1908: Birth of his sister Ana Maria, who was the only female model to appear on the scene of Gala.

1914: Attends a School of painting.

1918:  His first exhibition.

1924: Goes to the art`s school in Madrid.

1923: Was expel a year of school.

1924: Arrested on suspicion policies.

1925: Back to art`s school.

1925: Visited Garcia Lorca in Cadaques.

Eugenio Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dalí lived their particular "Brokeback mountain" in Spain in the 20`s. One of the most fascinating and sad stories of two of the most important of our cultural landscape. Their relationship went beyond mere friendship. They met in 1922 at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid (when they were 24 and 18 years respectively). It was a great love story but never got consummated. Lorca, less fearful to eroticism, was much more aware of the love felt for his friend. As Lorca saw him, he fell in love with Dalí, but he did not accept his homosexuality, among others things, the influence of a severe father, the notary of Figueras. Remained, nonetheless, a very close perconal and artistic relationship first, and a complex aesthetic debate later, until 1928 when there was estrangement between the two.



1926: Was expelled from the school of arts.

1927: Visit to Pablo Picasso.

1928: Visit to Paris, and asked the driver if he knew a good brothel. Then he went the famous "chabanais" and there is struck by the erotic vulgarity if his staircase.

1929: Meet other surrealist and Elena Dimitrivna Diakonoca (Gala). Collaborated with Luis Buñuel in the film "Un chien Andalou" (The anlalusian dog). The strange sequence of this film liked to the surrealists, bur the general public could not digest their raw scenes.

1930: The second film with Buñuel "L`ade d`or" (The golden age). This is a film filled with such violence that was protested by the public. During his first performance there was a scuffle involving a group of extreme right. The film was badly damaged and the police banned its screening.

1931: Home of the famous soft watches.

1938: Meet Sigmung Freud.

1940: Dalí and Gala moved to United States of America.

1945: Is intereseted in nuclear physics.

1946: Produce some pictures for Walt Disney.

1958: Dalí and Gala got are married.

1974: Opening of the "Teatro Museo Dalí" in figueres.

1982: Gala died.

1983: His last painting.

1986: Suffers burns in a fire at his castle.

On january 23rd - 1989 at the age of 84 years, Eugenio Salvador Dalí died in Figueres.