Spanish artist and surrealist icon, Salvador Dalí, is perhaps best known for his melting clock painting, The Persistence of Memory.

Who was Salvador Dalí?

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. From an early age, Dalí was encouraged to practice his art and would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró, leading to Dalí's first surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory, which depicts melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist's expulsion from the surrealist movement, but that did not stop him from painting. Dalí died in Figueres in 1989