11 May 1904 year at 8:45 in the Catholic town of Figueras was born Salvador Dali. The artist received his name from his brother, who died just a year earlier. Thus, the second born son of overprotective parents had for him with love. Dali's father, a lawyer by profession, was a prominent figure in Figueras, his mother, with whom he combined all his life close to him and loving relationship, she was an ardent Catholic. Dali was also five years younger sister. Talent for drawing small Salvador revealed from an early age. The first classes in the city began to receive a drawing school at the age of ten years. At that school, he won the first of skills and technique. The experiences of childhood and adolescence were the main driving force for the entire period of Dali's career. Even as a child showed the need for solitude intermittent bursts of exhibitionism and attempts to draw attention to themselves, such as wanting to show off in front of his friends risked breaking his neck by jumping from a great height. Initially, Salvador Dali was fascinated with impressionism. In this style of landscape painting mainly Cadaqus. He loved to stay in this city. There was a farmhouse El Muli de la Tore owned Quixotes, Dalich family friends. The property is for Salvador seemed a magical place. In one of the rooms of a home painter saw the first ball of disability, which in time became a frequent theme of his works, and his favorite subject. It was there that he made his first steps in painting. Artist Quixotes very valued family, which had a huge influence on his artistic soul. All Quixote fought artists, especially musicians, but he was also one among them painter - Ramon Quixote, who saw in Salvador talent. Dali Quixote gave the studio a big, bleached with lime, a solar chamber. He trained there constantly. When we exhausted all the paper and all of the canvas, took a workshop old wooden door is not used, which seemed to him the ideal medium still life. Cherries painted on them, using only three colors and squeezing paint directly from the tube. When he was accused that the cherries have stems, dokleił the real tails painted cherry fruit, which he used as a model, and then use a pin worms gouged out the door and brought them to the cherries. Jobs had a big impression on Ramona and was saved by his insistence Dali at age 12 to a local drawing class. As a teenager, Dali painted constantly. Cadaqus landscape, present in the mature works, was his constant theme as well as scenes from everyday life. When he was 14 years after first exhibited his work in the theater in Figueras. The event attracted the attention of critics. At age 15, Dali and his colleagues released a paper called "Study" prepared by themselves contain a section devoted to the great masters of painting, in which he expressed his admiration for Velzqueza, and wrote the text for the Goya, El Greco, Drera, da Vinci and Michael Angel. In 1921, when Dali was 16 years old died of cancer, his mother. Shortly after his father married a sister of the deceased. The event is most likely caused the Dali relations with his father became more and more difficult.
11 May 1904 year at 8:45 in the Catholic town of Figueras was born Salvador Dali. The artist received his name from his brother, who died just a year earlier. Thus, the second born son of overprotective parents had for him with love.
Dali's father, a lawyer by profession, was a prominent figure in Figueras, his mother, with whom he combined all his life close to him and loving relationship, she was an ardent Catholic. Dali was also five years younger sister.
Talent for drawing small Salvador revealed from an early age. The first classes in the city began to receive a drawing school at the age of ten years. At that school, he won the first of skills and technique. The experiences of childhood and adolescence were the main driving force for the entire period of Dali's career. Even as a child showed the need for solitude intermittent bursts of exhibitionism and attempts to draw attention to themselves, such as wanting to show off in front of his friends risked breaking his neck by jumping from a great height.
Initially, Salvador Dali was fascinated with impressionism. In this style of landscape painting mainly Cadaqus. He loved to stay in this city. There was a farmhouse El Muli de la Tore owned Quixotes, Dalich family friends. The property is for Salvador seemed a magical place. In one of the rooms of a home painter saw the first ball of disability, which in time became a frequent theme of his works, and his favorite subject. It was there that he made his first steps in painting. Artist Quixotes very valued family, which had a huge influence on his artistic soul. All Quixote fought artists, especially musicians, but he was also one among them painter - Ramon Quixote, who saw in Salvador talent. Dali Quixote gave the studio a big, bleached with lime, a solar chamber. He trained there constantly. When we exhausted all the paper and all of the canvas, took a workshop old wooden door is not used, which seemed to him the ideal medium still life. Cherries painted on them, using only three colors and squeezing paint directly from the tube. When he was accused that the cherries have stems, dokleił the real tails painted cherry fruit, which he used as a model, and then use a pin worms gouged out the door and brought them to the cherries. Jobs had a big impression on Ramona and was saved by his insistence Dali at age 12 to a local drawing class.
As a teenager, Dali painted constantly. Cadaqus landscape, present in the mature works, was his constant theme as well as scenes from everyday life.
When he was 14 years after first exhibited his work in the theater in Figueras. The event attracted the attention of critics. At age 15, Dali and his colleagues released a paper called "Study" prepared by themselves contain a section devoted to the great masters of painting, in which he expressed his admiration for Velzqueza, and wrote the text for the Goya, El Greco, Drera, da Vinci and Michael Angel.
In 1921, when Dali was 16 years old died of cancer, his mother. Shortly after his father married a sister of the deceased. The event is most likely caused the Dali relations with his father became more and more difficult.