Salvador Dali - Artist Biography

A giant of surrealist art, Salvador Dali stretched the boundaries of his own mind (and those of his audience) over the course of his career. Born just after the turn of the 20th century in the Catalonia region of Spain, Dali had problems with authority from an early age. He battled with teachers during his time at the Madrid Academy of Arts, and soon after would branch out to produce his own radical form of art.

Dali: King of Surrealists
After some early experimentation in Futurism, Cubism and Metaphysical painting, Salvador Dali formally joined the ranks of the surrealists in 1929. Notorious for his larger-than-life personality and knack for self-promotion, he quickly found himself at the forefront of the movement. Dali was known for outrageous stunts like wearing an old-fashioned diver suit (replete with air-tight metal helmet and oxygen pumping machine) to a social occasion.

The world of Salvador Dali's paintings is a world of dreams. Images and concepts are mixed together on Dali's canvasses much in the way that our mind melts seemingly unrelated objects from our lives while we're sleeping. It was Dali's belief that artists (and even regular people) should regularly experiment with allowing their minds to stretch to the borders of insanity--and this odd take on life certainly shows in his paintings.

As unusual as Dali's paintings are, they have found an enormous audience since their first appearances in the 1930s. Despite the almost mythically odd tone of his artwork (and perhaps because of it), Dali has a way of calming and inspiring with his work. PosterCheckOut offers a wide variety of Dali's works on high quality poster prints so you can enjoy his artwork in your own home or office.