Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali, born Felipe Jacinto (1904-1989) in Figueras (Spain), is name-checked on the cover of "Freak Out!" (1966) under the heading "These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them". He was a Catalan surrealist painter with a big curly moustache. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid, he moved to Paris and joined the Surrealists (1928), becoming one of the principal figures of the movement. His study of abnormal psychology and dream symbolism led him to represent "paranoiac" objects in landscapes remembered from his Spanish boyhood. In 1940 he settled in the USA, became a Catholic, and devoted his art to symbolic religious paintings. He wrote The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942), and collaborated with Luis Buñuel in the Surrealist films "Un Chien andalou" (1928, "An Andalusian Dog"), and "L'Age d'or" (1930, "The Golden Age"). One of his best-known paintings is "The Persistence of Memory" (known as "The Limp Watches", 1931, Museum of Modern Art, New York City).