Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain on May 11, 1904. His father was a lawyer and very strict, but his mother was kinder and encouraged Salvador’s love for art.
His full name was Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de in short known as Salvador Dalí.
Salvador continued to experiment and study different kinds of art but mainly Surrealism and the Persistence of Memory. His best-known work is, The Persistence of Memory, completed in August 1931.
The painting shows Dalí’s idea of softness” and “hardness” of time which he was thinking at the time of the painting.
On the morning of 23 January 1989 Dalí died of heart failure at Figueres at the age of 84.