Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born on May 11, 1904 in a small town in Spain. His father was part of a succesfull notary and built him his fiirst studio in the small village of Cadaques where his familys summer cottage was located. He built a home with his wife Gala in Port Lligat a near by village. We can see Dalis love for his homeland in many of his paintings.
Slavador Dali completed his schooling at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts which was in in Madrid. He started to attain recognition for his talent with one of his first displays in Barcelona in 1925. Dali achieved international recognition when three of his paintings, including "The Basket of Bread" were shown in an annual art festival in Pittsburgh in 1928. In 1929, Dali held his private display in Paris. Later That year, Dali met Gala Eluard who became Dali's lover, manager, 
and main inspiration.With such moving strange paintings Dali became a driving force in the surrealist movement. Such paintings as "The Persistance of Memory," with what appears as melting watches is one of the most powerful of his surrealist work.
During a war in 1934 which Dali would not support he was expelled from the surrealist group. Dali managed however to display various paintings in international surrealist exhibitions for the next ten years. As Dali evolved as an artist he found himself abandoning traditional surealism and moved towards a new type of painting inspired by his interest in science and relegion.
Dali fled Europe with his wife during World War II, finding sanction in the the United States. This was a very important move for the artist. A Museum in New York "the museum of modern art" gave Dali his first major display in 1941. A year later due to growing attention his biography "The Secret Life of Salvador Dali" was published.As salvador Dali contiued to paint, public interest in his art spreadd. After only a few years in the americas he had completed 19 canvases, which contained deep scientific and historic themes. Some of his most popular paintings which are know located in the National Art Gallery of Washington D.C include; "The Hallucinogenic Toreador," "The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus" and the "Sacrament of the last supper."
The Teatro Museo in Figueres, Spain was opened by dali in 1974. Dali spent a lot of time displaying his work here and is the home of many of his piecies.
The later years of Dalis life were mainly spent in seclusion. He rarely took interviews or made appearances and the public even saw less of him when his wife died in 1982. By 1984 his health began to deteriate and he almost died in a fire in his home in Publo Spain
In 1989 Dali passed from this world leaving a legacy of art that still remains unmatched. Dali success relied on his natural genius and his ability to constantly evolve as a artist. He also left in his will the right for the public to study and expose his life and work, so that it may be enjoyed for generations.
Some other Dali paintings i enjoy are:
The Dream
Temptations
Salvador Dali
Watch the video Born from an egg by following the link
All Work was taken from various internet sources and was created by the man himself Salvador Dali.
Below i included a list of resources
http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lg3199+temptation-of-st-anthony-1954-salvador-dali-poster.jpg
http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-4/dali_the_discovbery_of_america_by_christopher_columbus_1958_lg.jpg
http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/images/dali-last-supper.jpg
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z282/PoluxFlux4/TheDream-1930-DALI-1.jpg
http://www.7-07.com/images/The_Hallucinogenic_Toreador.jpg
http://www.students.sbc.edu/evans06/images/The_Persistence_of_Memory.jpg
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/21/images/xlarge/FLO_1_td21dali1_207706_0221.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff59/kikusha/salvador_dali_foto-1.jpg
Written work taken from
http://www.artelino.com/articles/salvador_dali.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/dalibio.html
