History Creator / SalvadorDali

* ''Daaaaaalí!'' (2024), [[InvokedTrope surrealist]] comedy film by Creator/QuentinDupieux. A French journalist wants to interview Dalí to make a documentary. He is portrayed by a staggering ''five'' actors -- Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï and Didier Flamand (in old age, for the latter).

* ''Daaaaaali!'' (2024), [[InvokedTrope surrealist]] comedy film by Creator/QuentinDupieux. A French journalist wants to interview Dalí to make a documentary. He is portrayed by a staggering ''five'' actors -- Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï and Didier Flamand (in old age, for the latter).

* ''Daaaaaali!'' (2024), [[InvokedTrope surrealist]] comedy film by Creator/QuentinDupieux. A French journalist wants to interview Dalí. He is portrayed by a staggering ''five'' actors -- Édouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï and Didier Flamand (in old age, for the latter).

* WrongGenreSavvy: Simon Braund's 2013 book ''Literature/TheGreatestMoviesYoullNeverSee'' explains why his intended collaboration with the Creator/MarxBrothers, ''Giraffes on Horseback Salads'', wouldn't have worked. Dalí didn't understand that what made the Brothers' act work was that their craziness was set against a backdrop of utter normalcy, but that they would disappear in an environment where everyone was crazy.

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

He didn't just paint surrealism, though. [[CrazyIsCool He]] ''[[CrazyIsCool lived]]'' [[CrazyIsCool 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).

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Dalí was born, in Figueres, [[UsefulNotes/TheShiningAutonomousCommunitiesOfEspana Catalonia]]. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle-class lawyer and notary. Dalí's father had a strict disciplinary approach to raising children — a style of child-rearing which contrasted sharply with that of his mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres. She often indulged young Dalí in his art and early eccentricities.

* EyeScream: A famous example in the film ''Film/UnChienAndalou,'' in which he collaborated with similarly surrealist director [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel]]. The effect of a human eye being sliced with a razor blade was replicated with a cow's.

* LongTitle: He sometimes gave his paintings titles like this, such as "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening" or "Creator/ShirleyTemple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time".

[[OverlyLongName Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol]] (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), better known as Salvador Dalí or "the guy with crazy mustaches who painted melting clocks and elephants with giant thin legs", was a UsefulNotes/{{Spa|in}}nish artist who worked in many fields but is most renowned for his surreal paintings.

[[OverlyLongName Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol]] (11 May 1904 – 23 January 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.

Dalí was born, in Figueres, Spain. His father, Salvador Dalí y Cusi, was a middle-class lawyer and notary. Dalí's father had a strict disciplinary approach to raising children — a style of child-rearing which contrasted sharply with that of his mother, Felipa Domenech Ferres. She often indulged young Dalí in his art and early eccentricities.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: In-universe. He famously declared, "I don't do drugs. I ''am'' drugs."

->''“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!”''
-->-- '''Salvador Dalí'''

Works with their own pages:
* ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory''

* CoolPet:
** He had a pet [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxeyveFHc21qcpgr3o1_500.jpg ocelot]] named "Babou."
** And a pet [[http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/327357/dali_anteater.jpg anteater]].

* 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. Given his tendency to say and do things to screw with people and mislead them, it’s unclear whether he truly believed this. [[/note]]

* 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.

* NightmareFace: Several of his paintings feature garish and twisted faces.

!!Salvador Dali in popular culture:
* Music/FrankZappa lists him as one of his influences in his ''Music/FreakOut'' album liner notes.
* The instrumental "Dali's Car" from Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' was inspired after the band went to an exhibition with Dali's work.
* Dali's painting "The Temptation of St. Anthony" was used on the album cover of Music/JohnZorn's "On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits" (2013).
* Creator/AdrienBrody plays him in ''Film/MidnightInParis''.
* In [[Music/{{OFWGKTA}} Tyler, the Creator]]'s song "Fin", he mentions Dali as one of his influences.
* Music/KubaSienkiewicz made a FilkSong to [[https://youtu.be/lwHHOPD951A his paintings]].

[[Child Prodigy It has been said that young Dalí was a precocious and intelligent child,]] prone to fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates. Consequently, Dalí was subjected to furious acts of cruelty by more dominant students or his father. The elder Dalí wouldn't tolerate his son's outbursts or eccentricities and punished him severely. Their relationship deteriorated when Dalí was still young, exacerbated by competition between he and his father for Felipa's affection.

It has been said that young Dalí was a precocious and intelligent child, prone to fits of anger against his parents and schoolmates. Consequently, Dalí was subjected to furious acts of cruelty by more dominant students or his father. The elder Dalí wouldn't tolerate his son's outbursts or eccentricities and punished him severely. Their relationship deteriorated when Dalí was still young, exacerbated by competition between he and his father for Felipa's affection.

[[caption-width-right:350:"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.””]]

[[caption-width-right:350:“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”]]

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->''"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."''