Salvador Dalí

Surrealist icon who redefined 20th-century art through dreamlike imagery

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) became the defining figure of Surrealism through his paranoiac-critical method that accessed subconscious creativity. Masterpieces like The Persistence of Memory (1931) with its melting clocks challenged perceptions of reality.

Key innovations include:

• Pioneering 3D stereoscopic works
• Collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock and Disney
• Integration of quantum physics concepts in art

His Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres remains one of Spain's most visited museums. Beyond painting, Dalí influenced jewelry design, photography, and even holography, declaring Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.