Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904. He grew up middle class with his dad being a lawyer and his mother being a notary. His father raised his kid in a very strict discipline way. His mother enjoyed his art work when he was little. They say he was intelligent and a precocious child. He also had a lot of anger towards his parents and others like his school mates. His father did not tolerate that so he punished him a lot. Dali had an older brother who had the same first name as him, but sadly died from a gastroenteritis. He remembers that when he was about 5 year old that his parents took him back to his older brothers grave and told him that he was a reincarnation of his older brother which is kinda creepy. He had an older …show more content…
The family was very devastated by this loss. After the passing of his mother his father married his dead wife's sister. He stayed in school and started growing longer hair and sideburns, also they way he started dressing was more english aesthetes. In 1923 he was suspended he was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and starting a riot among the students, In that same year he was also arrested for supporting the separatist movement. He returned to the academy in 1926 but then was permanently suspended for declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him. In August 1929 he met Elena Dmitrievna Diakonova who was a russian immigrant. He later married her in 1934. In 1930 he became a notorious figure of the surrealist movement. In 1934 he was expelled from the group. He had an interest for hitler. During world war 2 him and his wife moved to the united states. Over the next 15 years he painted a series of 19 caveases. In 1980 he was forced to retire from painting due to weakness in his hands, he was no longer able to hold a brush. Then in 1982 his wife had died it was tragic times. On November 1988 he went to the hospital for failing heart problems. On January 23, 1989 he died in the city that he was born due to a heart failure. A funeral was held at the Teatro Museo. He lived to be