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Salvador Dali
Dali attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He devoured philosophical works and Freud. He had one person shows in Barcelona and Madrid. He harmonized the examples of Gris, de Chirico and Carra
with the refined methods of the Old Masters. Andre Breton, Surrealism's
central figure appointed him an official Surrealist. Within a short time
Dali was to become the movements most spectacular exponent. In his art he
has succeeded in achieving the synthesis of what Andre Breton called a
retrograde craft with the most extreme invention of modern culture. His
graphic oeuvre comprises etching and lithographs which have evolved parallel
to his paintings.
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