{"id":8478,"date":"2018-01-16T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingturks.wpenginepowered.com?p=8478"},"modified":"2018-01-16T03:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:05:01","slug":"life-of-salvador-dali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/en\/europe\/spain\/figueres-en\/life-of-salvador-dali\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Of Salvador Dali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dali was born 9 months after his brother\u2019s death in Figueres, <strong>1904<\/strong>. Not having accepted their first child\u2019s death at a young age, his parents was telling to Dali that he carries on the spirit of his brother, whom he closely resembles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getyourguide.com\/barcelona-l45\/girona-figueres-dali-museum-day-trip-t1183\/?partner_id=F2GZGY3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guided Excursion To Dali Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This event led the artist to feel as his brother\u2019s ghost throughout his life and it affected his art as well as his spiritual development. Despite having a despot father; as the only boy in the house, he received an excessive amount of interest from his mother, sister, aunt, grandmother and caretaker. Thus, Dali turned into a little despot; spoiled, hysterical and theatrical behavior he performed to be him and to attract the attention of his family was now considered normal.<\/p>\n<p>His first painting was his self-portrait he made at the age of 10 and with his mother\u2019s support; he was enrolled in a private painting school. He opened his first exhibition in <strong>1919 at Figueres Municipal Theater<\/strong>, which is now <strong>Dali Museum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His mother, whom he greatly loved, died from breast cancer in <strong>1921<\/strong>. Regarding his mother\u2019s death, he said that it was the biggest blow he has ever received. After the mother\u2019s death, Dali\u2019s father shortly married his sister-in-law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8514\" style=\"width: 1011px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8514 size-full\" title=\"Dali &amp; Lorca\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation.jpg\" alt=\"salvador dali and garcia lorca relationship\" width=\"1021\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-lorca-relation-990x587.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dali &amp; Lorca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He enrolled in <strong>San Fernando Academy<\/strong> in Madrid in his 20&#8217;s but he was expelled because of his anarchist behavior. Though he got accepted to school after a while, he rejected to take the final exams in his last year saying that his teachers didn\u2019t have the ability to evaluate his art. In this process; he met the father of cubism <strong>Picasso<\/strong>, surrealist and cubist painter <strong>Juan Gris<\/strong>, founder of psychoanalytic theory <strong>Sigmund Freud<\/strong>, director <strong>Luis Bunuel<\/strong> and most importantly, Spain\u2019s most beloved poet <strong>Federico Garcia Lorca<\/strong>. Women were of little interest to him; he had a very close friendship with Lorca, who was gay and in love with Dali, which lasted 11 years (1925-36). In <strong>1926<\/strong>, he met his wife <strong>Gala<\/strong>, who will be his greatest passion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8517\" style=\"width: 1014px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8517 size-full\" title=\"Dali and Gala \" src=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life.jpg\" alt=\"dali and gara marriage\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life-768x375.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingturks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dali-and-gala-life-990x483.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dali and Gala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He fled the country and toured the world with Gala during <strong>Spanish Civil War<\/strong>. He appeared to support Franco and fascists in order to return to his country and to produce. He shouted \u201cole!\u201d when Federico Garcia Lorca, still loving Dali, was executed by firing squad \u2013by falangists- under an olive tree but later, he cried his eyes out.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in <strong>U.S.A<\/strong> as from 1966 and made good money from the billboard designings, graphical designs and especially jewellery designs. He almost stopped painting after <strong>Gala\u2019s death in 1982<\/strong> and having settled in Pubol, the location of Gala\u2019s grave and performed his last works.<\/p>\n<p>He recovered from a fire, which he experienced in <strong>Pubol chateau<\/strong> in 1989, in a hospital. In <strong>1989<\/strong> and at the age of 84, he died from a heart attack in this hospital. His corpse was disinfected and was buried under the central dome of the museum in Figueres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dali was born 9 months after his brother\u2019s death in Figueres, 1904. Not having accepted their first child\u2019s death at a young age, his parents was telling to Dali that he carries on the spirit of his brother, whom he closely resembles. 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