1. What year was Salvador Dali born?

He was born on 17th May 1936.

2. What nationality was Dali?

He was Spanish.

3. What age does he go to Madrid to study Fine Art?

Age 18

4. Did he complete his studies?

No, because he was expelled.

5. Discovering what changed Dali’s life?

Surrealism.

6. Who started the art movement that Dali is associated with?

André Breton.

7. What was the movement a response to?

The movement responded to the devastation of the World War.

8. What are the main themes of surrealism?

The main themes included desires, fears and anxiety amongst others such as eroticism, socialism, atheism, dreams and the subconscious.

9. What themes were on the 23-year-old Dali’s mind?

Death and sexual themes were dominant at that time.

10. What is the paranoiac-critical method?

The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique that Dali developed to help artists enter their subconscious by causing a self-induced paranoid state.

11. What film did Dali make in 1929 with Luis Buñuel?

A silent film called An Andalusian Dog or Un Chien Andalou.

12. What year did Dali meet his wife?

1929

13. Who was the British patron of Dali and surrealism?

Edward James.

14. What year was The Persistence of memory painting first shown in New York?

1932

15. How much was it originally bought for?

$250

16. When did the artist Jeff Koons meet Dali?

1973

17. How much was the skull sculpture (For the Love of God) by Damien Hirst on sale for?

£50,000,000

18. After being dismissed by the Surrealists where did Dali head for?

He went to Hollywood.

19. What year did Dali work on the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound?

1944

20. What sequence did he design?

A 20-minute long dream sequence.

21. Who else did Dali work with?

Walt Disney

22. What lollypop did Dali design the logo for?

Chupa Chups

23. What year did Dalí Theatre and Museum open?

1974

24. What year did Dali die?

1989

 

The term avant-garde refers to something new and experimental.

Juxtaposition refers to when two or more things that contrast each other are placed together in the same sense that they become oxymoronic.