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Salvador Dalí. Dalí was born in (May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain). He died on ( January, 23, 1989). His name was actually is Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí. Was formed at an early age. Dalí was encouraged to practice his art, and he would eventually go to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí’s first Surrealist phase. Apart from being a painter he was also sculptor, enfraver, set designer and spanish writer.