
The father of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) wanted his son to be an agricultural scientist. It wasn’t to be.
Dalí became the most famous Surrealist artist, although the movement later expelled him for lusting after Hitler and for his unhealthy obsession with making money (André Breton called him “Avida Dollars”, an anagram of his name).
At his first exhibition in London in 1936, Dalí wore a diving suit topped with a Mercedes radiator cap and holding two Russian wolfhounds on a leash with one hand and a billiard cue in the other. The outfit backfired when he began to suffocate and the brass helmet had to be released by a workman wielding a spanner.
Dalí went on to produce film sequences for Alfred Hitchcock (Spellbound), and designed the logo for Chupa Chups lollipops.
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