Salvador Dalí, The Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers, 1936, oil on wooden panel, 25.4 x 43.1 cm., Kunstsammlung Nordheim-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Photo by Jordan5k via Flickr,
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol, better known as Salvador Dalí, was born on May 11, 1904. The Spanish artist worked in variety of media, but is best known for his Surrealist paintings. Because of his classical training as an artist and his love of the Renaissance masters, his style was naturalistic and highly polished, which functioned as an entrée into his striking dreamlike compositions. Steeped in Freudian theory and methodology, Dalí’s themes focused on the subconscious, eroticism, and death.
