Labels:text | human face | screenshot | clock OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Dali, Salvador Salvador Dali Dali's paintings, which he described as "hand-painted dream photographs," combined conventional techniques with fantastic images. He became one of the most famous members of the Surrealist movement, a group of artists, writers, and filmmakers, based in Paris, who juxtaposed logical and illogical elements in their work. Dali's gift was for manipulating images, combining almost photographic realism with Freudian symbolism to create a hallucinatory dreamworld on canvas. From his first exhibition at age 25, he courted controversy, and cultivated eccentricity and paranoia as a way of stimulating the imagination. Certain images recur in his works, such as watches that appear to be melting in the sun light. He lost favor with the Surrealists in Salvador Dali, the late 1930s when he settled in the U.S ., Spanish painter, 1904-89 and concentrated on symbolic religious paintings. As well as painting, Dali applied his teasing imagination to soulpture, writing, and filmmaking, and achieved an international reputation that mixed popularity with notoriety. CHRONOLOGY
