Dali portrait de picasso biography

A portrait like this makes you wonder if Dali hated Picasso. Salvador Dali was 22 years old when he made his first pilgrimage to the studio of the already world-famous Pablo Picasso in Picasso was 45, and already had his blue period, obsessed over African art, co-fathered cubism with Georges Braque, and was beginning to explore in André Breton’s new movement: Surrealism.

Dali was young but already making impressions in the Madrid avant-garde for his dramatic dandyism and dabbling in the Dadaist and Futurist movements.

Meeting Picasso was hugely influential to Dali, at first as similarities in Dali’s immediate work, exploding into a heated exploration of surrealist ideas in the early s and maturing into an strange, one-sided obsessive correspondence.

Dalí, and later and his wife, Gala, sent Picasso more than letters and postcards before the elder artist’s death in

The pinnacle of this odd relationship between two Catalan artists can be seen here, in Dali’s po