Seeing Through Salvador Dalí’s Kaleidoscopic Eyes

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Term Paper Title	Seeing Through Salvador Dalí’s Kaleidoscopic Eyes
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Seeing Through Salvador Dalí’s Kaleidoscopic Eyes

      Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domčnech was the son of Salvador Dalí Cusí and Felipa Domčnech Ferrés.  He was born on the lackadaisical day of May 11, 1904.  Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was dubbed after his father and grandfather.  Felipe is the male equivalent of his mother’s name while Jacinto came from his uncle.
     The family lived in a small, rural town called Figueres in Spain.  It was sixteen miles south of the Spanish-French border, being fed by the Tech and Ter rivers.  Dalí’s photographic memory consumed this scenery for later use in many of his paintings.
     He was horrifically indifferent towards his education at the Christian Brothers’ Immaculate Conception primary school which likely gave him ample time to expand his imagination.  Perhaps the only knowledge he acquired while being taught there was the French language.  This was the sole language spoken at the school, and he was forced to adapt to the communication.
     The first flame of creativity was sparked by Siegfrid Burmann, who gave Dalí his first set of oils and pallete.  He undoubtedly employed these materials in one of his first sophisticated paintings, View of Cadaqués with Shadow of Mount Pani of 1917.
     His family noticed his artistic talent early on, and supplemented his education by allowing him to spend summer holidays with the creative family of Ramón Pichot just outside of Figueres.  Pichot was a well-known artist, who maintained friendships with the likes of Pablo Picasso.  All his children were musically inclined and excelled in scholarly education.  This family inspired Dalí to try his hand at any type of creative expression.
     Dalí’s proud father exhibited his son’s drawings at the family home in Figueres.  The attention prompted him to write stories and journal entries.    He wrote two novels, Summer Evenings and The Tower of Babel, both of which remained unpublished.
     At the age of fifteen, he foreshadowed his life, stating, "I’ll be a genius, and the world will admire me."  This comment referred more to ambition than to conceit, which was a popular comment among Dalí’s critics.
     His artistic purpose was furthermore empowered when Dalí was accepted as a student at the Academy of San Fernando, a famous art school in Madrid, where he stayed until 1922.  He developed an infatuation with the theories of Sigmund Freud and...

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