Salvador Dalí
- Style
- Dalí
- Peak Era
- 1930s
- Born
- 1904
- Hall of Fame
- Inducted 2024
- Fan Votes
- 0 legendary · 0 meh
About Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (1904–1989) was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. He studied in Madrid, befriended Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel, and joined the Paris Surrealists in 1929. "The Persistence of Memory" (1931), with its melting clocks, became the most recognizable surrealist painting in the world.
Dalí worked across painting, sculpture, film (he co-wrote "Un Chien Andalou" with Buñuel and designed a dream sequence for Hitchcock\'s "Spellbound"), jewelry, and advertising. He was expelled from the Surrealist group in 1939 but remained its most famous face. He spent World War II in the United States, returning to Spain in 1948.
He died in Figueres in 1989 and is buried in the crypt of the Dalí Theatre-Museum he designed there.
Why the Stach Became Iconic
Two thin, waxed spikes pointing skyward, sometimes curled, sometimes straight as antennae. Dalí claimed the mustache was inspired by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, and he treated it as a work of art — which is why a whole style of mustache now carries his name.
In 1954 he and photographer Philippe Halsman published "Dalí\'s Mustache," a book consisting entirely of photographs of the thing. When his body was exhumed in 2017, the mustache was reported to be perfectly intact.
Notable Moments
- The Persistence of Memory (1931)
- Un Chien Andalou, with Luis Buñuel (1929)
- Dream sequence, Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945)
- Dalí's Mustache, with Philippe Halsman (1954)
- Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres (opened 1974)
- He designed the Chupa Chups lollipop logo in 1969.
- He once delivered a lecture in London wearing a deep-sea diving suit and nearly suffocated.
- When his remains were exhumed in 2017, forensic experts said the mustache was still in its classic position.
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