Salvador Dali Research Paper

Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) - spanish painter, graphic artist, sculptor, film director and writer. One of the most famous representatives of surrealism.
The most popular Dali's works :
The Persistence of Memory (1931)
Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, (1935)
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
Ballerina in a Death's Head (1939)
Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
The Elephants (1948)
Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
Section B
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech was born on May 11, 1904, at 8:45 am in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region, close to the French border in Catalonia, Spain.
Dalí often related the story that when he was 5 years old, his parents took him to the grave of his older brother and told him he was his brother's reincarnation. In the metaphysical prose he frequently used, Dalí recalled, "[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections." He "was probably a first version of myself, but conceived too much

in the absolute."
Even thought his parents supported Dali with his painting and built him an art studio before he entered art school, his father was really strict to him.

Sometimes Dali was even aggressive to his father. In addition, his father punished Dali for his aggression and that is why Dali often expressed his anger mood on his paintings. He was also trying as much as possible to win the attention of his mother, and so he was trying to impress his mother by his paintings. Dali was out of ordinary from childhood that is why his pictures were also really unusual and unique. Salvador Dali had sister which was his muse unless his met his wife( Gala Dali). His mother was supportive to him so much and when she died of breast cancer Dali was devastated by the

loss.
Section C
Salvador Dali started recognizing his talent with the help of his parents, that sent him to drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Instituto in Figueres, Spain, in 1916 where he wasn’t a serious student and seemed not interested at all in studying there. He learned more about art when he went to Paris with his parents and where he met Ramon Pichot, a local artist, who, with the help of his father pushed him to an organizing of his first exhibition when he was only 15 years old. That drawing school didn’t make any changes in the way of developing his talent. Being able to perform his own pictures at that age even by that time gave huge hint about his enormous talent and extraordinarily.
Though the drawing school didn’t have any impact on his physical or mental state, staying at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid he was effected by different styles as including Metaphysics and Cubism.
In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for severe behavior and that same year, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned in Gerona for supporting the Separatist movement, though Dalí was absolutely apolitical and he remained of the same point of view throughout his life.
While studying at school, Dalí began explored many works of such painters as Raphael, Bronzino and Diego Velázquez, from whom he adopted his signature curled moustache. After the World War I he was in to an anti-establishment movement called Dada which philosophy influenced his work throughout his life.
During his life several trips to Paris he was able to meet with with influential painters and intellectuals such as Pablo Picasso, whom he revered. During this time, Dalí painted a number of works that displayed Picasso's influence. He also met Joan Miró, the Spanish painter and sculptor who, along with poet Paul Éluard and painter René Magritte, introduced Dalí to Surrealism.
While working in Surrealistic manner he expressed his emotional state in small “unreal dream” pictures with strange hallucinatory characters influenced by Renaissance artists. In addition, Dali’s love for Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories had an impact on his creativity and imagination.
When Dalí met Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova, a strong mental and physical attraction developed between them instantly and throughout his life she helped balance the creative forces in Dalí's life.
Later Salvador Dalí had become a notorious figure of the Surrealist movement and Marie-Laure de Noailles and Viscount and Viscountess Charles were his first patrons.
Both husband and wife invested heavily in avant-garde art, influenced by communicating with them Dali produced his one of the most famous and best-known Surrealistic work -- The Persistence of Memory.
In the age of 76 Dalí was forced to retire from painting due to a motor disorder that caused permanent trembling and weakness in his hands. He was no longer able to hold a brush in his hands, the most dreadful thing that happened to him and sent him into serious and deep depression was the death of his wife. As a result he died alone of a heart failure.

Section D
It is not a secret that people with normal healthy state of mind are not able to produce such pictures as Dali’s masterpieces. Looking at his works people can easily understand that he was dealing with serious mental disorders such as
unusual sexual behavior, paranoia and temper tantrums. Of course he was born with some mental problems and it was inherent defects. However, the impact of his parents upbringing, the death of his brother and several life changing meeting with important people had a significant impact on his achievements in painting which were nurture factor. Because of his addiction to the extra-ordinary emotions he started practicing the paranoiac-critical method, which he used to create a reality from his dreams and subconscious thoughts and it became a way of his life. Looking to the big five traits we can definitely say that he was Neurotic because he was really emotional, aggressive, temperamental and worries person.