• Born Salvador Dalí on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain
• Dalí often related the story that when he was five years old, his parents took him to the grave of his older brother and told him he was his brother's reincarnation.
• At an early age, young Salvador was producing highly sophisticated drawings, and both his parents strongly supported his artistic talent. It was here that his parents built him an art studio before he entered art school.
• He was permanently expelled from the Academy shortly before his final exams for declaring that no one on the faculty was competent enough to examine him.
• In between 1926 and 1929, Dalí made several trips to Paris, and met with influential painters and intellectuals including Pablo Picasso, whom he revered.
• Dalí's paintings became associated with three general themes: depicting a measure of man's universe and his sensations; the use of collage; and objects charged with sexual symbolism, and ideographic imagery.
Salvador Dali's Biography (continued)
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