Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain in 1904. He became proficient in many styles of art while studying in Madrid and Barcelona. By the late 1920s he had developed his own style of painting for which he became famous. Dali was a member of a group of artists and writers known as the Paris Surrealists. The group studied the effects of the subconscious mind over logic. This topic had became an interest for Dali after he discovered Sigmund Freud's writing on subconscious imagery. When painting, Dali would put himself into an hallucinatory state to bring about images from his subconscious mind. He often painted common place objects and portrayed them in a changed or deformed way. Dali died January 23, 1989 in Figueres from heart failure. Which brought to the end the life of a most incredible artist and an extraordinary man. There may be much controversy surrounding Dali and his works these days but what can never be taken away from him was his extraordinary way in which he viewed the world and thanks to his art we get to see a bit of what was inside of Salvador Dali?s mind and just maybe our own.
