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Life of a Genius: The Dali Chronology
1904 - Born on may 11th in Figueras, Gerone, Catalogna, Spain
1914-18 - Educated at the Brothers of the Marist Order Academy in Figueras.
1920 - Influenced by italian futurism, after seeing catalogs and manifestos brought back from Paris by his parents.
1921 - Student at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphism of Madrid. Meets Luis Bunuel, Garcia Lorca and Pedro Garfias. Influenced by Juan Gris and cubism.
1922 - Rejects cubism and profession of faith in favor of the "metaphysical school" of painting, which was directed by Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Carra and explored the worlds of perceptions and internal experiences.
1924 - Arrested in Gerone for presumed political activities. Illustrated Fages de Climent's Bruixes de Llers.
1925 - Return to the Academy in Madrid. Studies the works of Sigmund Freud. First exposition dedicated to his paintings at the Dalmau Galery in Barcelona. Acclaimed by local artistic critics. First trip to Paris. Visits Picasso.
1926 - Expulsed from the Academy for good. Second exposition of his work at the Dalmau Gallery. Influenced by cubism and Picasso.
1927-29 - Contributes to the magazine L'Amie des Arts.
1928 - Ana Maria and Backview of a sitting young girl are the first paintings to be showed in America, at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
1929 - Contributes to the Gaseta de les Arts. Second trip to Paris. Miro introduces him to André Breton, Paul Eluard and other surrealists. Creation of Illuminated Pleasures, Gloomy Game and other surrealists work. Joins the surrealists group in Paris. Breton, Gala, Paul Eluard and Magritte visit Dali in Cadaques during summer. His paintings are influenced by Ernst and Miro. Birth of a serie of collage realized with mixed techniques. First showing of the movie Andalousian Dog, based on a scenario by Dali and Bunuel.
1929-30 - Influenced by the New Art and Gaudi's architecture. Rediscovers de first paintings of de Chrirco and the fantasies of Arcimboldo. Writes and illustrates The Visible Woman in which he explains his paranoiac-critic method. Illustrations for Breton and Eluard's The Immaculate Conception. Collaborate with Bunual for the movie The Golden Age, presented later in Paris at the studio 28. In the commotion following the first showing, artwork by Ernst, Miro, Dali, Tanguy and Man Ray are destroyed.
1930-33 - Publication of Love and Memory. Contributes to the magazine Surrealism at the service of Revolution. Applies his paranoic-critic method to the legend of William Tell. Uses double images more frequently. Fascinated by The Artist in his workshop by Vermeer.
1930-39 - Illustrations for the second surrealism manifesto, for Breton's White haired revolver, Tristan Tzara's Issues and Grains, Paul Eluard's Natural course, and for Isadore Ducasse's Maladoror's Songs. Publishes an album with six pictures of paintings.
1931 - Paintings and drawings for the exposition "The New Surrealism" at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
1932 - Composes Babaouo. This work contains an essay on William Tell and a critic of the movie. Exposition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York.
1933 - First exclusive exposition of his paintings at the Julien Levy Gallery. Article on Millet's Angelus in the Minautore.
1934 - First exclusive exposition of his paintings in London at the Zwemmer Gallery. Surrealists worries because of Dali's political declarations, his publicly declared admiration for Hitler and his monarchist tendancies. Dali stops participating to the group's meetings. First trip to America. Illustrations for the American Weekly magazine.
1934-37 - Serie of paintings born under the influence of the effect of light on the Rosas' beach. Images of Hitler, Lenine, of Millet's Angelus and of telephones are very present in his work.
1935 - Composition of Conquest of Irrationnal, in which he defines his paranoiac-critic activity. Attacks against the abstract art.
1936 - Participates to the International Surrealist Exposition in London. Becomes friend of the english collector Edward James, who gathered an impressive collection of Dali's work.
1937 - Writes Metamorphosis of Narcissus, in which he explains his painting by the same name. First of a serie of three trips to Italy. Impressed by Palladio, the Renaissance and baroque paintings.
1938 - Thanks to Stefan Zweig and Edward James, Dali visits Freud in London where he draws a picture of him on blotting paper.
1939 - Decorates a shop window in a surrealist way for Bonwit-Teller in New York. Is later arrested for breaking the window, claiming the store defiled his work by changing it. Contributes to the universal exposition in New York. Publishes Declaration for the independance of imagination and of man's rights to his own craziness. Presents his ballet Baccanal for which he wrote the scenario and built the scenery.
1940 - Leaves France for California. He'll stay there for eight years.
1941-42 - Great retrospective at the Museum Modern of Art, presented in eight cities. Receives general recognition in the United States. Creates the scenery for the ballets Labyrinthe, El Café de Chinitas and Conversation sentimentale. Writes his autobiographie The secret life of Salvador Dali. Start painting portraits.
1943 - Exposition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York. Studies mural painting for Helena Rubinstein's house. Illustrations for Maurice Sandoz's The Labyrinthe, Essays of Michel de Montaigne, As you like it and The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini.
1948 - Moves back to Port Lligat in Spain. New classicism tendancy. Illustrations for 50 secrets of magical Art.
1949 - First religious paintings. The Madona of Port Lligat is approoved by the Pope.
1951-52 - Illustrations for Dante's The Divine Comedy. Creation of Christ of St Jean de la Croix. Writes Mystical Manifesto to explain mysticism.
1954-55 - Publishes Dali's Mustach in collaboration with Philippe Halsman. Retrospective in Rome. Birth of Corpus Hypercubicus and The Last Supper.
1956-59 - Retrospective in Knokke Le Zoute, Belgium. Paints Santiago El Grande, which can be found in Canada at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. First historical painting with The Discovery of America. Writes Dali on Modern Art.
1957 - Makes plans for a nightclub in Acapulco that can move and breathe; the project was never realized.
1958 - Religious wedding with Gala in Spain. Conference at the Théatre de l'Étoile with a 12 meters long bread.
1960 - Protestations from surrealists against his participation to the surrealist exposition at the d'Arcy Galleries in New York.
1961-63 - New edition of The secret life of Salvador Dali. Scenery and costumes for Scarlatti's opera The spanish lady and the roman knight. Finishes the painting The Ecumenical council, then Tetuan War and Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleiacide. Publishes The Tragical Myth of Millet's Angelus.
1964 - Receives one of Spain's highest distinction, The Great Cross of Isabelle the Catholic.
1954-65 - Great exposition in Tokyo. Publishes Diary of a Genius. Illustrations for the Bible. Starts "three dimensional art" and realizes Dante's bust.
1966-73 - Publication of Interviews with Dali by Alain Bosquet. Illustrations for a deluxe edition of Alice in Wonderland. for Random House. Publication of Dali by Dali with illustrations the Dali summarizes in different groups: planetary Dali, molecular Dali, monarchist Dali, hallucinogen Dali and futuristic Dali.
1973 - Opening of the Dali Museum in Figueras. Publication of This is how you become Dali.
1974 - Realizes the hologram The Herd and the Siren for Enrique Sabater. It contains on of the rare portraits of Gala.
1978 - First showing of the movie Babaouo at the theater of the Dali Museum in Figueras, based on the book by the same name published in 1932.
1979 - Retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris with a unique installation, The Heroic Fair.
1980 - Retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London.
1982 - Becomes Marquis of Pubol. Gala dies.
1983 - Dali lives alone and retired in Pubol castle. In may of this year, he realizes his last painting The Swallow's Tail. His health doesn't allow him any more great efforts.
1986 - Dali is seriously burned during a fire that starts in his bedroom. Dali, seriously ill and unable to move, lives in the tower of his museum in Figueras.
1989 - The Master dies at the age of 84.
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