I introduce a new category on darkscenario.com, called “Artists”.
In there you will find biographies of various artists, famous or not famous.
For a good start I take a very popular, outstanding artist - Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali is considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement and one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. During his lifetime the public got a picture of an excentric paranoid. His personality caused a lot of controversy. After his death in 1989 his name remained in the headlines.

Salvador Dali was born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech on the 11th of May, 1904 in Figures in Catalonia in Spain. His father Salvador Dali i Cusi was a lawyer and a notary. His mother’s name was Felipa Domenech Ferres. She would encourage his artistic talents. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School.

Dali had an elder brother who had died 9 months before he was born. It is said that Dali was often told by his parents that he was his own brother, reincarnated. Dali soon came to believe that. Dali also had a younger sister called Ana Maria.

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