Explore Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist known for his technical skill and bizarre, striking, or absurd imagery. Major themes include dreams and the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science, and his own life and relationships.

Dalí pursued painting, sculpture, film, graphic arts, photography, and design. He sometimes collaborated with other artists, and he also wrote a wide range of fiction, poetry, and essays. His most famous work is “The Persistence of Memory” (1931) in which clocks melt in a desert landscape and a fleshy, alien creature in the center approximates an unsettling portrayal of the artist’s face in profile.