Top interesting and weird facts about Dali

Before I tell you more about Dali`s art works, love and career, I would like to share the most captivating facts about Salvador Dali. It will help you to understand better the mysterious and weird life of the artist or genius... Whatever you consider him to be.

1. One day at school Dali fell down the stairs. Everyone was talking about it. For this reason, Dali decided to "fall" down the stairs every day to be in the middle of attention.

2. Dali was scared of women and ants.

3. Dali didn`t sell his artworks. Gala Dali (his wife) was the one who was responsible for selling the pictures.

4. When Dali started to paint Eluard, Eluard was Gala`s husband. When Dali finished the painting, they were divorced and Gala had a love affair with Dali. ( I will tell you more about Dali and Gala in following posts).

5. Dali worked with Disney. (They have made a cartoon together). 

6. Dali was named after his dead brother ( I have already discussed it).

7. Dali created Chupa Chups logo. He didn`t take money for that. He just asked for a box of Chupa Chups a day.

Picture adopted from weheartit.com.

8. Some people gossip Dali`s wife Gala was a witch. 

9. Dali was obsessed with Hitler as a woman. Yeah...I am pretty serious. He has a painting dedicated to it The Enigma of Hitler, (1939).

10. Gala was eleven years older than Dali.

11. The difference between a person with schizophrenia and Dali is that Dali admitted he had schizophrenia.

12. Dali worked with Christian Dior to create a costume for 2045 year.

13. Dali used to come to art exhibitions in a diving suit.

14. Crater on Mercury was named after Dali.

15. Dali invented plastic coach which takes a comfortable form for a person who sits there.

16. Dali created fake nails with mirrors, so that ladies could check their look. (What a genius!)

17. His behaviour in public was not always accepted by society.

18. There is a movie about Salvador Dali Little Ashes.

19. I am addicted to Dali.

Thank you so much for your attention! I hope you liked this post.

Facts were taken from http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_interesting_facts_about_Salvador_Dali?#slide=1

http://www.newstatesman.com/cultural-capital/2012/11/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-salvador-dali-0

http://primaryfacts.com/841/10-salvador-dali-facts/

http://www.life123.com/arts-culture/artists/salvador-dali/facts-on-salvador-dali.shtml

and my personal knowledge I learned from museum.

WHO IS SALVADOR DALI? HOW DID HIS STORY BEGIN?

Maybe you have already heard a lot about Dali. Maybe you don`t care. Maybe you have no clue who is Dali. However, he is worth your attention. Let me prove it. When I visited Dali`s museum in Spain, I had an awesome guide, who told us a lot about this artist. I have never heard so many interesting stories about a single person. I would like to share in this first post some facts I was told there. Dali is basically a Spanish artist, who was a clear representative of surrealism. Dali is mostly known for his famous "melting clock" in the most famous painting Persistence of Memory, which I will discuss in the other post. Dali was a part of Spanish culture. Catalonian atmosphere formed Dali`s character and vision of the world. 

 His family also affected  his perception. He had an older brother whose name was also Salvador (Our famous Salvador Dali was named after his brother). However, an older child died in the young age. This tragedy lead to a weird situation in the family: Salvador`s parents sometimes talked to him as if he was his older brother. 

In addition to this, Salvador`s dad blamed himself in the child`s death. He thought his affair with a prostitute lead to syphilis. And a child died because of this disease. For this reason, Salvador`s dad was showing him freightening pictures of people with syphilis. Once he switched on the light in Salvador`s room in the middle of the night and put lots of ugly photos on the floor. The child was shocked. This trauma made Dali scared of women. The only two women he depicted were his younger sister and his first and the only love Gala. This fear was so strong that it was manifested in diverse life situations. For instance, when Dali visited Moulin Rouge (he was famous by that time), directors decided to make a surprise for their special guest at the end of the show. The dancers were supposed to end the show on Dali`s laps. It was a mistake. When it happened, Dali started to scream, pushed the girls and started to creep on the floor to the exit. Kind of weird, yeah?  And this is only the beginning of the story;)

Pictures were taken from http://weheartit.com. Information was taken from the guide`s stories in Dali`s museum.