Salvadore Darli Spanish painter. Born into a middle-class family, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, where he mastered academic techniques. Dalí also pursued his personal interest in Cubisim and Futurisim and was expelled from the academy for indiscipline in 1923. He formed friendships with Lorca and Buñuel and held his first one-man show in Barcelona (1925), where he exhibited a number of seascapes.In Paris he met Picasso and Breton. Over the …showed first 75 words of 744 total…

…showed last 75 words of 744 total…more or less authentic signatures brought discredit on the artistic mass market of the 1960s. Such 'scandals', however, like the denunciation of fake Dalís in the 1970s, served to keep a myth alive - a myth that has proved remarkably durable if the success of both the Dalí museum at Figueras, which the painter himself set up in 1974, and the major exhibitions periodically held in celebration of his 'genius' is anything to go by.