'''Salvador Dali''' (1904-1989, both born and died in Figueres, [[Spain]]) was a Spanish [[Surrealism|Surrealist]] painter and sculptor, whose work includes one of the 15 most famous paintings of all time: ''[[The Persistence of Memory]]'' (1931) as displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. Surrealism was a more [[conservative]] alternative to [[Cubism]], which was a competing trend in art throughout the 1900s. Surrealism incorporated concepts of science and even [[infinity]], unlike Cubism's rebellion against [[logic]]. | '''Salvador Dali''' (1904-1989, both born and died in Figueres, [[Spain]]) was a Spanish [[Surrealism|Surrealist]] painter and sculptor, whose work includes one of the 15 most famous paintings of all time: ''[[The Persistence of Memory]]'' (1931) as displayed at the Museum of Modern Art. Surrealism was a more [[conservative]] alternative to [[Cubism]], which was a competing trend in art throughout the 1900s. Surrealism incorporated concepts of science and even [[infinity]], unlike Cubism's rebellion against [[logic]]. |