Salvador Dali was born on May 11th 1904 in Figueras, Catalonia. Son of a notary, Dali had, since a very young age, a strange and violent behaviour towards himself and animals. On the other hand, he showed a talent in painting and drawing. This talent drove his parents to send him to an old family friend named Ramón Pitchot. A few years later, Dali went back home and studied at the San Fernando Academy from which he was expelled for reasons of rebellious behaviour. Circumstance upon which he went back home but was soon sent to the civil war where he assisted the infantry; he stayed there for only one month because he was suspected to want to participate in the rebelliousness which was speading in the country at the time. Since there was no proof to accuse Salvador Dali, he was set free and went back to the mediterranean borders. En 1927, he travelled to Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and was intruduced to the Surrealistic Circle with Joan Miró and André Breton.

Gala, the poet Paul Eluard's wife, became Dali's inspiration and was the center of several of his paintings. In 1934, Breton prompted a break-off between Dali and the Surrealistic Circle. Since then, Dali officially abandoned surrealism. Years later, Dali moved to Italy to be inspired by the Renaissance spirit and the baroque painting. Between 1940 and 1948, Dali and Gala resided in the United States before going back to Port Lligat in Spain and the artist converted himself into a catholic. As years went by, Salvador Dali followed a more classic style using religious motifs as models. In 1958, Dali and Gala got married after thirty years of knowing eachother. In 1964, Salvador became distinguished as an artist in Spain for his overall art work and in 1973, his hometown of Figueras, opened a museum in his name (the Dali Museum). Dali died on January 13th 1989.

The surrealistic illusion from Salvador Dali is distinguished by an used excess of detail which gave in result a realistic world of Dali's dreams.