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Salvador Dali is a Spanish artist who lived from 1904-1989. He is known for being a Surrealist artist. The Surrealist movement is a movement in visual art and literature that flourished in Europe between World War I and World War II. The movement represented a reaction against the “rationalism” that guided the European powers in past history. Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined together. Salvador Dali was born in Figures, Spain, 9 months after his brother died. He was surprisingly the THIRD Salvador Dali in his family. His brother and his father were both named Salvador. His brother died just 9 months after his birth. This correlation lead his parents to believe he was the incarnation of his brother. Therefore, his parents treated him very well. But this experience of his parents telling him he was the reincarnation of his brother affected him for the rest of his life. He started painting at 10, and at 12 he stayed with the family of Ramon Pichots. It is speculated that Ramon was a major influence in Dali’s early art. Salvador Dali became slightly famous in his early years. His charcoal drawings where put on pu