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Dali Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech is considered one of the great Surrealist painters of our time, and he has been ranked as one of the top ten most popular artists of the 20th Century. I believe Dali attained this status for three reasons: because of the time period in which he painted, because he was a great salesman, and the fact that he was able to shock people with his bizarre behaviors. Dali was born on May 11, 1904 and had his first drawing lessons at the age of ten. Despite the his parents wishes for him to go to law school, he went on studying art “at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took his final examinations” (Lenin imports). Dali started going around to galleries to display his work. He “received international fame when three of his paintings were shown in the third annual Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1928. In a way this was his prime startin