00:00 Salvador Dali was a renowned avant-garde artist known for his various artistic pursuits, celebrity status, and iconic mustache.

01:33 Salvador Dali's early life was influenced by the belief that he was the reincarnation of his deceased brother, and his interest in art was supported by his parents, leading him to attend art schools and develop his unique style and eccentric personality.

02:47 Dali left art school and began creating Surrealist work, including a landmark short film called Un Shin Andalau, which was known for its unconventional scenes and opening montage of an eye and a razor blade.

04:03 Dali developed his famous paranoic critical method and created The Persistence of Memory, which features melting clocks and is now displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and he gained fame and notoriety for his outlandish behavior and quotes during his first visit to the United States.

05:19 During World War II, Dali and his wife escaped France and spent the war in the United States, where he declared surrealism dead and claimed to return to classicism, although his paintings still contained elements of hidden images and his work didn't change much, and he also worked on various non-painting projects such as set designs for ballets, commercial packaging designs, and window displays for department stores.

06:38 Salvador Dali's work in the late 40s and 50s took on a more religious tone, incorporating Catholic themes, science, mathematics, and elements such as Christ crucified on a four-dimensional cube, DNA, and items, and he also became a media personality in the 50s and 60s, appearing on television and developing his theater/museum in Figueres, Spain, before his death in 1989.

07:55 Salvador Dali was an arrogant self-promoter but also one of the most important artists of the 20th century, with two museums dedicated to his work and a new collection of graphics called Memories of Surrealism.