
May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989
From the 1920's to the present decade Spanish artist Salvador Dalí has maintained a reputation as the master magician of contemporary art. His alien and nightmarish images stimulate the viewer's imagination with extraordinary power attracting each new generation by the force of his hallucinogenic inspirations.
Dalí's visual language is virtuosic and his range of imagery is protean. There is not one field in the visual arts that he has not explored successfully: painting, sculpture, graphics, book illustration, jewelery design, scenography. He is even acknowledged as an essayist and novelist.
Whether the subject is inspired by Freud or the Biblie, alchemy or science, or from Classical mythology or nuclear physics, Dalí's art remains unforgettable. It is mystical. It is erotic. It is inspirational. It is obsessive and evocative.
- Ignacio Gómez de Liaño