Artist Timeline Salvador Dali

1904 : Dali was born as Salvador Domnec Felip Jacint Dal i Domnech on
11 May
1916: Dali made a summer trip to Cadaqus with the family of Ramon
Pichot, a local artist who made regular trips to Paris, and was greatly inspired
by modern painting
1917: Dalis father organized an exhibition that featured Dalis charcoal
drawings and the show was held in their family home
1919: It was not before 1919 that Dali held his very first public art exhibition
at the Municipal Theater in Figueres
1921: Dali was 16 years old when he lost his mother in February. She died
after suffering from breast cancer
1922: Dali shifted into the Residencia de Estudiantes (Students' Residence)
in Madrid to pursue his studies at the Academia de San Fernando (School of
Fine Arts)
1924: Dali did his first illustration of a book
1926 : Dali got expelled from his Art College for making a statement that
there was no one so competent as to examine him and his work
1926: Dali produced his brilliant artwork, Basket of Bread which upheld his
highest mastery of painting
1926: Dali made another move by moving to Paris, where he met with Pablo
Picasso (a pioneer of Cubism), whom the young Dal revered
1929: He went into collaboration with surrealist film director Luis Buuel to
bring out the short film Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
1929: In August Dali met his future wife, Elena Ivanovna Diakonova who was
the artists inspiration and was better known as Gala.
1929: Dali got involved with his several significant exhibitions and he also
became an official member of the Surrealist group in the Montparnasse
quarter of Paris
1929: Dalis growing dissent with his father (relating to Dalis affair with
Gala and an exhibition featuring Dalis drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Christ where he had inscribed Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's
portrait which enraged him completely) led him to be thrown out of his
paternal home on 28 December
1931: Dal painted one of his most famous works The Persistence of
Memory which reflected the core of surrealism soft, melting pocket watches
for the first time.
1934: Dalio and Gala married at a civil ceremony after living together for
several years since 1929
1934: Dali got introduced to USA by Julian Levy, an art dealer

1934: Dali attended a masquerade party in New York, hosted for them by
heiress Caresse Crosby
1936: Dali participated in the London International Surrealist Exhibition
where he lectured his Fantomes paranoiaques authentiques wearing a deepsea diving suit and helmet
1936: Dali was helped greatly by his London based patron, Edward James
who was very rich and had purchased several works of Dali.
1938: Dali met Sigmund Freud with the help of Stefan Zweig.
1938: In late September Salvador Dal was invited by Gabrielle Coco Chanel
to her house La Pausa in Roquebrune. He painted several paintings there
which he later exhibited at Julien Levy Gallery in New York
1939: Dali faced an insult in the hands of Breton who coined the term Avida
Dollars which was an anagram for Salvador Dal, and a phonetic rendering
of the French avide dollars, which when translated comes as "eager for
dollars". This was a direct derision for Dali as his works were pointed as
commercial works. It was being perceived that Dali wanted all the fame and
fortune and there were surrealists who started speaking about Dali as if he
was dead
1940: During World War II had swept the whole of Europe and Dali moved to
the United States along with his wife Gala living there for 8 years
1941: Dal made a film draft for Jean Gabin named Moontide
1942: Dal published his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dal.
1943: He wrote several catalogs for his exhibitions one of which is the
notable exhibition at Knoedler Gallery in New York
1944: Dali wrote a novel about a fashion salon for automobiles
1959: Andr Breton organized an exhibition that was named Homage to
Surrealism which featured the works of Dal, Joan Mir, Enrique Tbara, and
Eugenio Granell as a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of Surrealism
1968: Dal filmed a humorous television advertisement for Lanvin
chocolates which he claimed in French "Je suis fou de chocolat Lanvin!" (I'm
crazy about Lanvin chocolate).
1969: Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo
1975: Dali completed working on the film, Impressions of Upper Mongolia
where Dali narrated a story about an expedition in search of giant
hallucinogenic mushrooms
1982: Dalis wife Gala died on 10 June
1988: In November Dali was admitted to the hospital after heart failure
1988 :On 5 December Dali died
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