[[Image:Dali.jpeg|thumb|250px|right|Salvador Dalí as photographed in 1934 by [[Carl Van Vechten]]]]
'''Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech''' ([[May 11]], [[1904]] – [[January 23]], [[1989]]) was an important [[Catalonia|Catalan]]-[[Spain|Spanish]] [[painter]], best known for his [[surrealism|surrealist]] works. Dalí's work is noted for its striking combination of bizarre [[dream]]like images with excellent draftsmanship and painterly skills influenced by the [[Renaissance]] masters. Dalí was an artist of great talent and imagination. He had an admitted love of doing unusual things to draw attention to himself, which sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his [[eccentricity (behaviour)|eccentric]] theatrical manner sometimes overshadowed his artwork in public attention.
