Surrealist Assignment Salvador Dali "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 Cubism and Futurism and was expelled from the academy for indiscipline in 1923. He formed friendships with Lorca and Buñuel, read Freud with enthusiasm and held his first one-man show in Barcelona (1925), where he exhibited a number of seascapes. He wrote the …showed first 75 words of 935 total…

…showed last 75 words of 935 total…up into her "head" leads nowhere, except to a crack that lets in empty sky. The hill that is her is rocky, harsh, eyeless and, under its cosmetic vegetation, dead. The staggering thing is not how "cynical" this painting is, but how much hard work went into it. There's a mad intensity to Dalí that makes it hard to speak of him as shallow. In his opulent yet lonely life, there was nothing except art.