Salvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. He was born to a middle-class family and he spent much of his time in his family's summer home in Cadaques, the place where his first studio was built. From early on, Dali was considered a child prodigy and he began painting before th...

Salvador Dali, born May 11,1904 in Figueras, Spain, was a very influential Surrealist painter and printmaker. He was well known for his exploration s of subconscious imagery. This of course meant that he had to use mind-altering drugs such as LSD or Opium. He was an art student in Madrid and Barc...

alvador Dali was born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia Lorca, and L...

Dada and Surrealism were two revolutionary art movements, which emerged in response to the events and ideas of the early twentieth century. Dada characterized by found objects and works made according to the laws of chance, was anarchic and anti art. In part a reaction to the senseless destruction o...

Frida Kahlo was a courageous and brave woman. Though she had been through numerous pains and suffering, she has continued to do what she loved to do, which was paint. Born on July 6, 1907, though her birth certificate says it was July 7 in Coyoacán, Mexico, near Mexico City, Frida's li...