萨尔瓦多.达利(1904-1989)

1904年5月11日生于西班牙菲格拉斯，1989年1月23日逝世。西班牙超现实主义画家和版画家，以探索潜意识的意象著称。达利是二十世纪最伟大的超现实主义画家，他与毕加索、马蒂斯一起被认为是二十世纪最有代表性的三个画家。

达利长达70年的艺术生涯充满了传奇色彩。他是一位具有卓越天才和想象力的画家。在把梦境的主观世界变成客观而令人激动的形象方面。达利的个性引起许多争议，他的生活本身就是一个十足的超现实主义者。那些怪事和怪诞言论里，给"巨匠们打分"已经成为达利的品牌。他在各种各样的语言中造就了超现实主义这一个专有名词，去表示一种无理性的、色情的、疯狂的而且是时髦的艺术。没有人能够否认得了他那无尽的才能、想象能力或者他所显示的强烈信心。

达利是一位多产艺术家，一生创作了1500多幅画作，而且还创作了大量版画，素描，雕塑，书页插图及剧院设计。今天，他的这些作品价格在各大拍卖场一路攀升。

Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in a Spanish town of Figueres, and died on January 23, 1989. Salvador Dali is an eccentric surrealist painter famous for exploring imago of subconsciousness. His name is synonymous with the surrealist art movement. He is considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century, along with Picasso and Matisse.

Dali’s art career of 70 years was a legend. Dali owned excellent talents and imagination. He turned the subjective world into exciting images.His personality caused a lot of controversies. His life itself was a real surrealist. He was well known for “giving marks to great masters” in his weird behaviors and comments. It is Dali who brought forth the word “surrealism” to various languages to mean an irrational, pornographic, crazy and modern art. No one is able to deny Dali’s endless talents, imagination capacity and strong confidence.

Dali was a prolific artist, creating more than 1500 paintings during his life time and many works in other mediums, including prints, drawings, sculpture, book illustration, and theater set designs. His works continue to fetch increasingly high prices in art auction houses throughout the world today.