Salvidor Dali

In the 1930’s Dali expanded upon surrealism calling his work “critical paranoia”. In the 1960’s, he began publishing books and entered into a ten-year contract with the publisher Pierre Argillite to produce illustrations for several books (Duke). He thought this reasoning should not only apply to art but also to ones daily life (Duke). These films were considered the surrealist style and L’age’d’or caused riots in the streets of Paris (BBC). According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in critical paranoia while keeping in the back of ones mind that the control of reason and will has been deliberate set aside. In 1938, while visiting London Dali met Sigmond Freud and proceeds to make several drawings of him (Encarta).

In 1941, Dali and Gala moved to New York and in 1942 he had his first retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (BBC). It was around this time that he met and eloped with Gala Eluard, it is rumored that they never consummated their marriage, as Dali could not stand to be touched.

In 1937, he moved to Italy and was expelled from the Surrealist ranks by Brenton, this was because of his support for Franco during the Spanish Civil War. In 1925, Dali had his first stand alone exhibit at the Galery of Dalmare (Duke). Never the less they remained together for fifty-three years (BBC).