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Salvador Dali Biography

2008-11-19T06:30:00.000-08:00

Salvador Dali FactsBorn as: "Salvador Domenec Felip Jacint Dalí Domenech" known as "Salvador Dali"
Dali was born on: May 11, 1904
Born at: Catalonia, SpainDali
Died: January 23, 1989

Salvador Dali was an eccentric Spanish painter that understood how the media worked and used it to its full potential. Dali's name is synonymous with the Surrealist art movement. Dali was a prolific artist, creating more than 1500 paintings during his life time and many works in other mediums, including prints, drawings, sculpture, book illustration, and theater set designs.

Salvador Dalí was born on the 11th of May, 1904 in the Spanish town of Figueres, Catalonia. His father "Salvador Dalí i Cusí" and mother "Felipa Domenech Ferres" provided Dali and his sister with a comfortable upbringing. The young Salvador Dali drew from an early age and was encouraged by his sympathetic mother. She died of cancer when the artist was just 16 though, and his father remarried the sister of his mother.

In 1922 Salvador Dali moved to Madrid to study painting at the Academy of Arts. Here he began to develop a reputation as an eccentric, attracting attention with his manner of dress, hairstyles, and comments on art. The artist experimented with forms of Cubism and Dadaism during his studies. Dali did not complete his final exams, and commented that those judging his work were not competent enough to grade him.

Dali moved to Paris, France to pursue his career as an artist and to be amongst many of the most progressive artists of the time. It was here that Dali met Pablo Picasso for the first time, a fellow Spaniard whom he greatly admired. He also became involved with Andre Breton and the Surrealist art movement. Around this time he also created surreal works that would come to represent what Surrealism was to many people, with works like "The Great Masturbator" and the famous Dali melting clocks "The Persistence of Memory".

In 1929 Salvador Dali met his wife Helena Diakonova, a Russian immigrant that was already married and was more than 10 years older than him. Know as "Gala" she became Dali's muse, lover, supporter and business manager. The couple were married in 1934 and she remained a major part of Dali's life up until his death.

Salvador Dali had a falling out with the Surrealists over politics and Dali's behavior. Andre Breton nicknamed Dali "Avida Dollars" and was expelled from the Surrealist movement. Dali was quoted as saying "Surrealism is me".

Dali went on to become a great success in the United States. He became a celebrity with his attention seeking comments, appearance and surreal paintings. He attracted commissions from wealthy clients like Helena Rubinstein. Dali and his wife Gala spent and 8 years in America, before returning to Catalonia in Spain.

In 1982 his beloved wife and companion Gala died. Dali was suffering his own problems battling with the debilitating condition of palsy. He then moved into the castle he bought for Gala in Pubol until he was injured under suspicious circumstances when a fire broke out in 1984. He was then moved to his hometown of Figueres, Catalonia, Spain where he died from heart problems on the 23rd of January, 1989.

Salvador Dali was a wealthy artist during his lifetime. He understood how to attract media attention and paved the way for media savvy artists like Pop Artist Andy Warhol. Dali had two museums dedicated to his life and work while he was still living. His works continue to fetch increasingly high prices in art auction houses throughout the world today.

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The launch of Today [BBC News Watch] 1957

2008-07-15T09:21:00.000-07:00

"The newspaper of the airwaves" is how BBC radio's Today programme was described by one of its best-known presenters, the late Brian Redhead. It was hardly the heaviest of broadsheets, though, when Today was first broadcast on the Home Service on 28 October 1957.

"Lots of stories about haunted houses and talking dogs" is one listener's recollection.
Today was seen within the BBC as "that potty little show", according to Jack De Manio - the presenter who was notorious for mis-reading the studio clock.

In one episode he recalls, the staff on Today became fed up with seeing people on other programmes forever swanning off, to put on special shows from "various exotic parts of the globe". So it was announced on air that the following day's programme would be an outside broadcast from an undisclosed location, a chance for Today to "meet the people".
The chosen location turned out to be a hole in the road being dug immediately outside Broadcasting House.

Even in the early 1970s, says BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson, no-one accused Today of dumbing-down - "because it was pretty dumbed-down already".
It is all a far cry from the programme that now prides itself as "Radio 4's news and current affairs flagship". It is the programme to appear on "if you want to drop a word in the ear of the nation," said Redhead.

Margaret Thatcher and John Prescott are among those who have taken that advice - by ringing in to respond to stories they had heard.
The long list of previous Today presenters includes Barry Norman, John Timpson, Jenni Murray, and Sue MacGregor. The current team includes Jim Naughtie and John Humphrys, who has probably been accused more often than any other radio presenter of being too aggressive with his questioning.

The programme's philosophy has been summed up by the current editor Kevin Marsh. "It has to be an agenda-setting programme", says Marsh. "It has to hold the powerful to account."

Original Etching Numbered 118/200

2007-03-26T02:59:00.000-07:00

DESCRPITION OF OBJECT (S)
Artist: Salvador Dali’
Medium : Original Etching
Edition : Numbered 118/200 in pencil in the lower left hand margin.
Image Size : 37 x 56 cm.
Paper Size : 54 x 77 cm.
Style : Surrealism
Signed : This work is hand-signed by Salavador Dali’

Levine and Levine150/500 (Originl Lithograph)

2007-03-26T02:49:00.000-07:00

Title : Dali's Inferno
Edition : Levine and Levine150/500 (Originl Lithograph)
Medium : GicleeImage
Size : 15" x 20"
FRAMED (26" X 32")
ARTIST : SIGNED
Price $ 9,800 USD.

Original Etching Salvador Dali Print Collectors

2007-03-26T01:48:00.000-07:00

2 pieces Price 1,000 USD.

This etching comes from :

THE COLLECTOR'S GUILD LTD. 185 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK N.Y. 10016

*Valazquez measures 6 x 8 In. (Picture) and 12 x 15 In. (Framed)

* Cervantes measures 6 x 8 In. (Picture) and 12 x 15 In. (Framed)

1971 Dali Dyonisiaque sterling silver. SOLD !

2007-03-25T23:51:00.000-07:00

1971 Dali Dyonisiaque sterling silver.Unicorn Plate + Signed on card

Offered is a sterling silver plate from the Lincoln Mint featuring the work of Salvador Dali titled Unicorn Dyonisiaque. Dali created this work especially for the Lincoln Mint to be reproduced in Sterling Silver. In the original box with the original paperwork.

SOLD NOW !