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My Life with Dalí is an autobiography by French singer Amanda Lear, first released in , which tells about her relationship with Spanish surrealist painter.
Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents works by the movement's iconic artists (Salvador Dalí.!
Salvador Dali (May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain, to January 23, 1989, Figueres, Spain) was the preeminent surrealist artist of the 20th century, as well as a sculptor, filmmaker, and writer.
His films include Destino, An Andalusian Dog, Age of Gold, and Babaouo, and the sculptures he is most famous for include Lobster Telephone and Mae West Lips Sofa.
Attributes of His Works: Dalí painted hallucinations, dreams and nightmares, optical illusions, and alternate realities where elephants and horses walked on long, spindly legs and clocks melted in a style that was both realistic and fantastic.
His main technique was what he called the paranoiac-critical method, whereby he would drive himself into a paranoid state, or a "spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena." Having started painting as a child, he was first influenced by impressionist painters and then Pablo Picasso’s Cubi
