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Who is Salvador Dali?

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Salvador Dalí (1904-89) is a Spanish painter, a leader of surrealism. His precisely realistic style enhances the obsessively nightmarish effect of many of his paintings. Among his best-known works is Persistence of Memory (1931; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) with its strangely melting clocks.

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