Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, shortly Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 - 23 January 1989), Catalan surrealist painter. He is famous for the strange and striking images in his surreal works. He finished his best known work, The Determination of Memory, in 1931. In addition to painting, Dalí was also interested in sculpture, photography and filmmaking. The short cartoon Destino, which he produced with American animator Walt Disney, was nominated for the Academy Award in 2003 for "best short animated film". Dalí, born in Catalonia, claimed to be descended from the Moors who conquered Spain in 711, and attributed his "fondness for everything fancy and garish, luxury life and eastern clothes" to his "Arab origin". [1] Throughout his life, Dalí drew attention not only with his art but also with his eccentric clothing, manners and words, which at times made those who appreciated his art as tired as those who did not. The notoriety ...