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**The Impact of Hispanics as the Largest Minority In the United States** Picture yourself looking into a red sky and coming upon several enormous elephants with the longest, palest, yet skinniest legs you have ever seen, and thinking. “Is this a dream”? That is how Salvador Dali lived his entire life with a surreal imagination that only he could express through his paintings, sculptures, movies, and photography. Dali expanded the imagination of Americans. America couldn’t get enough of him.

Dali's mother and father had three children, and the first child's name was Salvador. At 22 months the child died while Dali's mother Felipa was pregnant with another child. They named the second child Salvador Dali. The artist was born on May 11, 1904. His mother and father sometimes pretended like he was never there. And he had an identity crisis that scarred him for life. That was one reason why Dali acted like he did. He felt like he needed more attention based on his childhood. When Dali was 16, his mother died from cancer and he believed she didn't live her life to the fullest and would eventually be forgotten. He vowed never to be forgotten and to live his life to the fullest, unlike his mother, Felipa. When Dali was in his teenage years, he had an extreme love of art and decided to go to the School of Fine Art so he could be a teacher. In 1922, a month before graduating Dali was expelled for criticizing his teachers. In 1929 Elena Ivanovna Diakonova also known as Gala Diakonova met Salvador Dali for the first time and instantly fell in love. They got married in 1934 and the relationship lasted almost 50 years. (Dali Biography)

During the beginning of World War II Dali and his wife moved to America for eight years. The reason for this was because they needed to get away from the war and they believed Dali would get more attention in American then he did in Spain. How America heard about Salvador Dali was based on the visiting Spain before the war and telling Americans how interesting he was based on his paintings. America was never introduced to someone as peculiar as Salvador Dali before, they thought he was exciting, fun, and unique unlike several other artist. In 1941 Dali hosted a bad dream party, he invited the most important people in America to his party, and asked every person to dress up creepy, disturbing and as terrifying as they could. In 1945 Alfred Hitchcock became intrigued with Dali’s style of art, and asked Dali to create the background for his movie, “Spellbound”. A year later in 1946, he began to decorate the sets for the Opera in New York. Walt Disney even loved his style of art and considered to collaborate into creating a cartoon to introduce America to surrealism. In 1958 Gala decided to take a break from Dali and that made Dali very depressed. He decided to not paint until they got back together. On August 9, 1958. They got remarried, yet left America so Salvador could be normal again. She believed that her husband would become back to his old self once they moved to his hometown in Figueres, Spain.(Who Is Salvador Dali)

Salvador Dali is extremely famous for his art work. He is mainly known for “The Persistence of Memory” a beautiful rocky landscape that eventually goes into a lake. With a branch holding a melting clock and several other melting clocks along in the picture, it sounds really peculiar but this was how Dali thought. Dali was an excellent sculptor but one of his weirdest sculptures is the “Lobster Telephone”. Yes, it is exactly how it sounds. It’s basically a sculpture of a lobster on a 1936 black telephone. Dali came up with this idea when he was out to dinner with some friends and Gala and the waiter slipped, and accidentally threw Dali’s lobster. It just happened to land on a telephone. Within 1931-1976 Dali was honored to design the cover for Vogue magazine. The December 1938 cover shows two woman, one with a bouquet of flowers as her head and the other seems to have branches. The third cover was a Christmas edition released in December of 1946 and the last one again was a Christmas edition released in December of 1971. For the last magazine cover that he made for Vogue, Salvador Dali also he acted as an editor for the issue.(Salvador Dalí)

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it any way” – quoted by Salvador Dali. ( Salvador Dali Quotes) He believed that everyone was unique in their own special way and never thought of perfection as a way to live. For instance, Dali collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to help him create vivid expression with his films. Because of Dali’s popularity, the surrealist movement thrives today throughout the educational institutions around the world. His legacy lives on forever in the hearts and minds of America!

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"Salvador Dalí." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 30 Nov. 2016. Web. 28 Apr. 2017. .
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"Salvador Dali." American Art 7.4 (1993): 110. Salvador Dali:Biography. NP. Web. 28 Apr. 2017. .
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"Salvador Dali Quotes." BrainyQuote. Salvador Dali, n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2017. .
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"Who Is Salvador Dali? Everything You Need to Know." Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline. NP, 2015. Web. 28 Apr. 2017. .  Picture yourself looking into a red sky and to come upon several ginormous elephants with the longest, palest, yet skinniest legs you have ever seen. Legs that are 100 times your size and thinking “is this a dream”? That is how Salvador Dali lived his entire life with a surreal imagination that only he could express through his paintings, sculptures, movies and photography. Dali expanded the imagination of Americans. America couldn’t get enough of him.
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Dali's mother and father had three children and the first child's name was Salvador. At 22 months the child died, while Dali's mother Felipa was pregnant with another child, yet they named him Salvador Dali, the artist was born on May 11, 1904. His mother and father sometimes pretended like he was never there and he had an identity crisis that scarred him for life that was one reason why Dali acted like he did, he felt like he needed more attention based on his childhood. When Dali was 16 his mother died from cancer and he believed she didn't live her life to the fullest and would eventually be forgotten, so he vowed never to be forgotten and to live his life to the fullest unlike his mother Felipa. When Dali was in his teenage years he had an extreme love of art and decided to go to the school of fine art so he could be a teacher. In 1922, a month before graduated Dali got expelled for criticizing his teachers. In 1929 Elena Ivanovna Diakonova also known as Gala Diakonova met Salvador Dali for the first time and instantly fell in love. They got married in 1934 and the relationship lasted almost 50 years.

 During the begin of World War 11 Dali and his wife moved to America for eight years, the reason why was because they needed to get away from the war and they believed Dali would get more attention in American then he did in Spain. How America heard about Salvador Dali was based on the visiting Spain before the war and telling Americans how interesting he was based on his paintings. America was never introduced to someone as peculiar as Salvador Dali before, they thought he was exciting, fun, and unique unlike several other artist. During the years Dali was in America he hosted a costume party for all of the famous movie star, the costume everyone wore represented each person’s personality. Could you imagine what Salvador Dali wore? In 1945 Alfred Hitchcoke became intreaged of Dalis style of art and asked to create a background in his movie Spellbound. A year later in 1946, he began to decorate the sets for the Opera in New York. Walt Disney even loved his style of art and considered to collaborate into creating a cartoon to introduce the America to surrealism. In 1958 Gala decided to take a break from Dali and that made Dali very depressed, he decided to not paint until they got back together. On August 9, 1958, they got remarried, yet left America so Salvador could be normal again, she believed that her husband would become back to his old self once they moved to his hometown Figueres, Spain.

Salvador Dali is extremely famous for his art work, he is mainly known for “The Persistence of Memory” this is a beautiful rocky landscape that eventually goes into like a lake. With a branch holding a melting clock and several other melting clocks along in the picture, it sounds really peculiar but this was how Dali thought. Dali was an excellent sculptor but one of his weirdest sculptors is the “lobster telephone”. Yes, it is exactly how it sounds. It’s basically a sculpture of a lobster on a 1936 black telephone. How Dali came up with this idea was when he was out to dinner with some friends and Gala and the waiter slipped, and accidently threw Dali’s lobster, it just happened to land on a telephone. Within 1931-1976 Dali was honored to design the cover for Vogue magazine. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> On <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">December 1938 shows two women, one with a bouquet of flowers as her head and the other woman seems to have branches for hair. The second cover, released in April 1944, again shows some flowers and branches. The third cover was a Christmas edition released in December 1946 and the last one again was a Christmas edition released in December 1971. For the last magazine cover that he made for Vogue, Salvador Dali also acted as an editor for the issue.

<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">‘Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it any way” – quote by Salvador Dali. He believed that everyone was unique in their own special way and never thought of perfection as a way to live.