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SALVADOR DALI | Infotainment Video | Series: The Greats | 5 Minute Biography |  Video description: This video is part of the TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT series that highlights the greatest people in history from all walks of life. Each 5-minute short biography covers all aspects of the featured person’s life, including rare videos of them. In this video, we feature Salvador Dali. Discover the remarkable journey of this influential figure and their lasting impact on the world. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí  was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.  About TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: Welcome to Trendest Infotainment, your ultimate destination for a diverse range of content that educates, entertains, and inspires! From in-depth celebrity biographies and fascinating history videos to the latest in science and technology, we bring you an expansive collection of infotainment videos. Explore the stories of legendary sports personalities, dive into the history of the World Wars, marvel at wildlife documentaries, and enjoy our informative and funny shorts. There’s something for everyone on Trendest Infotainment!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@UCvtG20NOq0X7l7ru-z1yBhw   #Infotainment #Documentaries #HistoryVideos #ScienceAndTech #CelebrityBiographies   Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1) TRENDEST MOVIES: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  2) TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/  COPYRIGHT:  We hold the proper licenses for all videos published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:30The name Dali has become a synonym for the fantastic and the absurd,

00:34an immortality that delighted quirky artist Salvador Dali.

00:39Throughout his colorful and productive life, Dali played on people's fascination

00:43with the weird and wacky, although he was sometimes criticized for

00:47putting commerce before art. Born in Spain in 1904, young Dali

00:52displayed a precocious artistic talent and was only 14 when he

00:56held his first exhibition. He enrolled at Madrid's Academy of Art

01:01but was frustrated by his teacher's emphasis on modern styles

01:05such as impressionism and cubism. Dali was more interested in learning

01:09classical painting. He became a key player in the surrealist

01:14movement, which was strongly influenced by the

01:16political turmoil of the 20s and 30s and Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic

01:21theories. As expressed in art, surrealism placed

01:24everyday items in odd settings, illustrated the absurd with hyper

01:29realistic images and used symbols to construct double

01:32meanings. When Dali embraced the fascist

01:35dictatorship of Spain's General Franco, his fellow left-leaning surrealists

01:40accused him of betraying their ideals and expelled him from the movement.

01:44Nevertheless, the public continued to view Dali as the foremost surrealist

01:48artist.

01:51Gala, his wife, muse and manager, helped Dali court publicity

01:55and encouraged him to turn his hand to a range of artistic media.

01:59With Gala as his model, he produced a series of stunning dreamscapes,

02:03heavy with symbolism. Gala was also the model for Madonna of Port Liga,

02:08a post-war work that fused religious imagery with the disintegration of

02:12matter caused by radiation. Dali called the style nuclear mysticism.

02:18It was born from his renewed interest in Catholicism and fascination with the

02:22atomic world. The painting Crucifixion also combined

02:26these elements. This masterpiece was the first work

02:30painted in a classical style using a cubist formula. The artist also

02:34collaborated with Walt Disney on an animation

02:37and designed a key set for Hitchcock's psycho thriller Spellbound.

02:41He constantly courted public attention and audiences were fascinated by his

02:46oddness. Dali's Venus de Milo with drawers

02:49displayed his trademark playfulness and fascination with optical illusions.

02:54The drawers represented repressed female sexuality,

02:58a concept borrowed from Freud. He also used the motive

03:02in several paintings. Dali's self-promotion was resented by some of

03:06his fellow artists who disliked the way he peddled his art

03:09to the world at large. Surrealist leader André Breton was

03:13particularly critical. Dali was a great showman of course. He

03:17had very little problem moving between sort of fine arts and

03:21and commerce and of course André Breton dubbed him Avida Dollars and an

03:25anagram of his name to suggest his his eagerness to work in the

03:28commercial world. Magritte had a much more sort of

03:31ambivalent relationship actually. He worked as a commercial graphic

03:34designer which of course when you look at his work

03:37it is very informed by advertising and sort of you know the strong motif or

03:41sign that that came from his from his

03:44graphic design but he always was very sort of dismissive of that part of his

03:47work even though it was very important for

03:49supporting his artistic life.

03:53Like his paintings, Dali's sculptures are both visually stunning and supremely

03:57odd. They include the wooden satin Mae West

04:01Lip Sofa and a series of functional lobster

04:03telephones.

04:07Dali created more than 1500 paintings throughout his career

04:12as well as book illustrations, film and theatre set designs, furniture and

04:16sculptures. He died in 1989.

04:21Although the Surrealists cast him out of their movement, Dali had his own

04:24provocative opinion about his style. He once said, the only difference

04:30between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist.

04:36I am a Surrealist.

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