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28 unusual facts about Salvador Dalì


Agustín Olguera

He studied painting at the School of Painting and Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, sharing room with Salvador Dalí.

Baku Museum of Modern Art

There are also non-Azerbaijani modern masterworks by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall from private collectors.

Blood and Honey

The lyrics were written by Amanda Lear herself and were inspired by Salvador Dalí's 1927 painting Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (La miel es más dulce que la sangre).

Château Woolsack

Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dalí, Suzanne Leglen all came in their time to profit from this jewel of Victorian architecture.

DaDa

The album alludes strongly to the dadaist movement: its cover was based on a painting by Salvador Dalí titled “Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire”.

Denise Batcheff

She was married to Pierre Batcheff (1901–1932), a French actor whose most famous film was Un chien andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

Essential Monet

It is part of the essential book series, which also discusses such other artists as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and others.

Faustian Echoes

Cover art of release is etching Faust Lisant (Faust Reading) by Salvador Dalí.

Flaons

These flaonets were one of the traditional Spanish pastries fondly remembered by painter Salvador Dalí.

Francisco Giner de los Ríos

Among the many important people that were at one time or another associated with the "Institución Libre de Enseñanza" and the related "Residencia de Estudiantes" were: José Ortega y Gasset, Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Antonio Machado, Luis Buñuel and Miguel de Unamuno.

Glass floor

The surrealist painter Salvador Dalí had one built to help him with the dramatic perspectives in his artwork.

Gonzalo Amancha

Amancha has stated that, like many other artists, his first influences were Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso.

Greg Bridges

When he was a child he was drawn into watching science-fiction films and was inspired by the artworks of Salvador Dalí.

I Am a Photograph

The album's promotional campaign was based on Amanda's "scandalous sex-symbol personality", surrounded by gossips regarding her alleged transsexualism, place of birth, which at the time was believed to be Transylvania, and her relationships with Salvador Dalí and David Bowie.

Impressions de la Haute Mongolie

Impressions de la haute Mongolie was a 1976 surrealist film directed by Salvador Dalí and José Montes-Baquer, starring Salvador Dalí himself.

Imsai Arasan 23m Pulikesi

Simailar to the Salvador Dalí's moustache, Pulikesi's moustache became popular in Tamil Nadu.

Jean Mayeur

While working at Cartier in New York he met Salvador Dalí who was at the jewellery store with a lady friend.

LA Plays Itself

At the film's screening, Salvador Dalí was reportedly quoted as saying, "new information for me".

Lobster Telephone

Lobster Telephone (also known as Aphrodisiac Telephone) is a surrealist object, created by Salvador Dalí in 1936 for the English poet Edward James (1907–1984), a leading collector of surrealist art.

Lya Lys

In 1930, Lys returned to Paris to star in Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealistic film, L'Age d'Or (1930), considered by many as her most memorable performance.

Mark Meer

In 2005, Meer was nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for co-writing the surreal sketch comedy show, Lobster Telephone (in which he also played Salvador Dalí), with the ladies of Panties Productions.

Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh

It was released in 1993 on Metal Blade Records and featured cover art from the Apotheosis of Homer by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Montague Shearman

The Montague Shearman Collection contains such famous painters as Picasso, Dalí, Matisse, Utrillo, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Lautrec, Rowlandson and many others.

Slug's Saloon

By the late 1960s the club had grown a vibrant scene in its out-of-the-way location, with performances from prominent jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman (among many others), and audiences including a number of painters, ranging from Larry Rivers to Bob Thompson and Salvador Dalí.

The Last Mistress

"Une vieille maîtresse sans Breillat" (A Last Mistress without Breillat), in Carré d'Art : Barbey d'Aurevilly, Byron, Dalí, Hallier, by Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Anagramme éd.

Thomas Binkley

The distinctive Dalíesque covers for the series were designed by Roberto Patelli (b. 1925) an Italian graphic artist resident in Cologne.

World Federation of United Nations Associations

For many years WFUNA conducted a fund raising program based on the sale of first day covers of UN stamps and lithographs produced by artists and celebrities, such as Picasso, Lou Zheng Jang, Miró, Salvador Dalí, Ruben Leyva, Al Hirschfeld and Andy Warhol to promote the ideals of the UN.

Youghiogheny River

In Chabon's 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, an expert or experts on Yuggogheny cannibal cults are present at the party where Joe Kavalier saves Salvador Dalí from drowning.


A. Reynolds and Eleanor R. Morse

The Morses' diligent collecting and their friendship with Gala and Salvador Dalí produced a valuable art collection that is now housed in the Salvador Dalí Museum in St.Petersburg, Florida.

Artium Museum

The museum holds works by numerous artists, including Miquel Barceló, Joseph Beuys, Joan Brossa, Juan Francisco Casas, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eduardo Chillida, Salvador Dalí, Óscar Domínguez, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Juan Muñoz, Jorge Oteiza, Pablo Palazuelo, Pablo Picasso, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Juan Uslé, and Darío Villalba.

Bacchanale

In 1939, Salvador Dalí designed the set and wrote the libretto for a ballet entitled Bacchanale, based on Wagner's Tannhäuser and the myth of Leda and the Swan.

Christopher Makos

Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon and Mick Jagger.

Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista, Santianes de Pravia

The foundation stone in the form of a letter labyrinth ("Silo Princeps Fecit") inspired the hypercube of Salvador Dalí's painting A Propos of the "Treatise on Cubic Form" by Juan de Herrera, housed in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Gerovital

During Gerovital's "jet-set" heyday, Gerovital treatments were reportedly administered to John F. Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas and Salvador Dalí.

Gufram

The design of this piece of design has been inspired by the portrait of Mae West painted by Salvador Dalì.

Joan Prats

Prats organised exhibitions for leading Iberian artists such Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder and his good friend Miró.

Joaquín Soler Serrano

He subsequently hosted many other programs, finally becoming presenter of the interview program A fondo (1976–1981), in which he had the opportunity to interview Salvador Dalí, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Camilo José Cela, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frederick Forsyth, Elia Kazan, Antonio Gala, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Francisco Umbral, Julio Iglesias and Silvio Fanti among others.

Juan Oropeza

He took up Paris as his permanent residence during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, where he befriended such personalities as poet Paul Éluard, writers Jorge Luis Borges, Nicolás Guillén, Miguel Ángel Asturias and painters Salvador Dalí, Marie Laurencin and Pablo Picasso.

Les Chants de Maldoror

Many of the surrealists (Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, etc.) during the early 20th century cited the novel as a major inspiration to their own works.

Llafranc

The Hotel Llafranc dominates the main sea promenade and was popular with artists such as Salvador Dalí and Ernest Hemingway.

Louis Ferdinand Alfred Maury

He coined the term hypnagogic hallucination and reported a dream that famously inspired Salvador Dalí's painting Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening.

Lyn Ott

He admitted being impressed and influenced by eminent artists from many eras and schools of painting including Rembrandt, Jan Vermeer, Willem de Kooning, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Salvador Dalí, and Claude Monet.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Among the best-known artists that are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the museum are Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent van Gogh, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, Mark Rothko, Edvar Munch and Willem de Kooning.

My Life with Dalí

My Life with Dalí is the title of an autobiography by a French singer Amanda Lear, first released in 1984, telling about her relationship with a Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Prague Quadrennial

Important artists who marked the history of the theater and the scenography participated and exposed at the Prague Quadrennial, such as Salvador Dalí, Josef Svoboda, Oscar Niemayer, Tadeusz Kantor, Guy-Claude François and Ralph Koltai, as well as figures of the contemporary theater, such as Robert Wilson, Heiner Goebbels and Renzo Piano.

Salvador Dalí Desert

It is entirely contained within the borders of Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and is characterized by landscapes that resemble surrealist paintings by Salvador Dalí.

Salvador Dali Museum

The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, houses the largest collection outside Europe of the works of the artist Salvador Dalí and is located on the Downtown St. Petersburg waterfront by 5th Avenue Southeast, Bay Shore Drive, and Dan Wheldon Way.

Tales from the Punchbowl

Players must "navigate from the helm of Captain Shiner's ferryboat through an enchanted liquid atmosphere to many strange and mysterious islands. Many experiences are to be had, all in a rose-colored waterworld filled with visuals reminiscent of Dalí and Bosch."

UnoAErre

UnoAErre has realized an inner museum with works of the artists who have collaborated to the production of its jewels (like Pietro Cascella, Salvador Dalí and Salvatore Fiume); there's also a section of industrial archaeology in order not to disperse the historical memory of its activity of gold production, during more than seventy-five years of life.

Urs Amann

He is mostly known as the painter of the cover art for several Klaus Schulze records, all in a style reminiscent of Salvador Dalí.

World Erotic Art Museum Miami

The collection ranges from folk art to world known artists and their artwork.The Museum shows artwork from artists like Rembrandt, Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Fernando Botero as well as Robert Maplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Bunny Yeager to name just a few out of more than 4000.