History Creator / SalvadorDali

* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dalí was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender. Although he may have just been messing with her. See Troll below

* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dalí was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender. Although he may have just been messing with her. See Troll for more context

* NobleBigot: For all his sensible artistic finesse, Dalí was an outspoken sexist, up to the point where he told a woman at the dinner table that he didn't want to even see her art because of her gender.

* {{Troll}}: Dali constantly evoked this throughout his life, speaking out on some topics with one viewpoint but then changing his stance or outright contradicting it. One moment he’d be supporting a controversial idea or person, next he’d be creating art that went against said persons beliefs or character.

* {{Troll}}: His intention for ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' (see MadArtist).

* HitlerAteSugar: Fell victim to this a little, mainly because he was fascinated by [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] (but didn't actually support him). [[note]]He ended up being a supporter of the fascist Franco regime, causing [[NoTrueScotsman other Surrealists]], who had supported the Republicans in the civil war, to effectively disown him. In his later years he identified as an anarcho-monarchist.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:332:[[Music/IggyAzalea First things first, I'm surrealist.]]]]

* BadassMustache: Without a doubt, his most distinctive physical feature. There was a whole book of photos of him with extra-crazy mustaches.
** He claimed it was a pair of antennae he used to pick up ideas.
** When he appeared on ''What's My Line'', the winner made sure it was him by asking if he had a distinctive mustache.
** It was discovered to still be intact when his body was exhumed to test a paternity claim in 2017.[[note]]It was negative.[[/note]]

* GRatedDrug: One of Dalí's claims was that he ate a large quantity of Camembert cheese to give himself vivid dreams to serve as inspiration for his paintings. It's unknown whether or not he actually did so, and it's also unknown whether or not this would work, wouldn't work, or would work due to the PlaceboEffect.
** His famous "The Persistence of Memory" was inspired by deliberately sleep-depriving himself, and letting disorientation do the rest.

!! "Tropes Descending A Staircase":

He didn't just paint surrealism, though. [[CrazyAwesome He]] ''[[CrazyAwesome lived]]'' [[CrazyAwesome it]]. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).

* RuleAbidingRebel: Despite being the ''quintessential'' surrealist in terms of his paintings, Dali was politically conservative and claimed to be Catholic. This naturally irritated his fellow surrealists like Creator/LuisBunuel and Andre Breton who regarded him as a sell-out. Breton later noted that Salvador Dali was "[[SignificantAnagram Avida Dollars]]" ("Greedy for Money"). In his youth he however was a Communist, anti-monarchist and anti-clerical.

* HitlerAteSugar: Fell victim to this a little, mainly because he was fascinated by [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] (but didn't actually support him).

* RuleAbidingRebel: Despite being the ''quintessential'' surrealist in terms of his paintings, Dali was politically conservative and claimed to be Catholic[[note:In his youth he was a Communist, anti-monarchist and anti-clerical.]] This naturally irritated his fellow surrealists like Creator/LuisBunuel and Andre Breton who regarded him as a sell-out. Breton later noted that Salvador Dali was "[[SignificantAnagram Avida Dollars]]" ("Greedy for Money").

* RuleAbidingRebel: Despite being the ''quintessential'' surrealist in terms of his paintings, Dali was politically conservative and claimed to be Catholic[[note: In his youth he was a Communist, anti-monarchist and anti-clerical.]] This naturally irritated his fellow surrealists like Creator/LuisBunuel and Andre Breton who regarded him as a sell-out. Breton later noted that Salvador Dali was "[[SignificantAnagram Avida Dollars]]" ("Greedy for Money").

* RuleAbidingRebel: Despite being the ''quintessential'' surrealist in terms of his paintings, Dali was politically conservative and claimed to be Catholic. This naturally irritated his fellow surrealists like Creator/LuisBunuel and Andre Breton who regarded him as a sell-out. Breton later noted that Salvador Dali was "[[SignificantAnagram Avida Dollars]]" ("Greedy for Money").

* TheTysonZone

[[HeAlsoDid He also dabbled]] in screenwriting, co-writing surrealist experimental films ''Film/UnChienAndalou and ''Film/LAgeDOr'' with writer/director Creator/LuisBunuel.

!! Dali's work provides examples of:

** ''Film/UnChienAndalou'' was deliberately designed to offend and anger the audience into attacking him, and he was deeply disappointed when that was not the case.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: He once said that nobody could "understand Dali because (he) never understands (his) work. Never Dali understand one painting of Dali, because Dali only creates enigmas."

He didn't just paint surrealism, though. [[CrazyAwesome He ''lived'' it]]. He became almost as well known for his bizarre behavior as his paintings, and may be largely responsible for the belief that artistic genius comes with insanity (see the page quote for his thoughts on the matter).

[[OverlyLongName Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol]] (1904 - 1989), better known as Salvador Dalí or "the guy with crazy mustaches who painted melting clocks and elephants with giant thin legs", was a Spanish man who worked in many fields but is most renowned for his surreal paintings.

** It was discovered to still be intact when his body was exhumed to test a paternity claim in 2017.