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1904%u20131989Salvador Dal%u00edEACH MORNING WHEN I AWAKE, I EXPERIENCE AGAIN A SUPREME PLEASURETHAT OF BEING SALVADOR DAL%u00cd.Who Was Salvador Dal%u00ed?From an early age, Salvador Dal%u00ed was encouraged to practice his art, and he would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and beganinteracting with artists such as Pablo Picasso, Ren%u00e9Magritte and Mir%u00f3, which led to Dal%u00ed%u2019s first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best known for his 1931 painting ThePersistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting. The rise of fascist leader Francisco Franco in Spain led to the artist%u2019s expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that didn%u2019t stop him from painting.MOST MAGAZINE - ISSUE 40 51