Claim profile

Salvador Dalí

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

  • Fame91.8
  • Momentum10.0
  • Global rank#41
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame91.8
  • Momentum10.0
  • Global rank#41
  • Spain rank#2
  • Artists rank#2
  • Wikipedia229.7K
Lived 1904–1989, aged 85Spain
Spain flagSpainArtistsArtist
  • Wikipedia
    207 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Global rank
    #41
    Fame.am leaderboard
  • Era
    1904–1989
    Aged 85
  • Known for
    Un Chien Andalou
    1929
Summary
Updated 2026-08-13

The melting clocks were his, but so was the waxed mustache and the pet ocelot — a painter who made Surrealism famous by being as strange as the dreamscapes he rendered with old-master precision.

Biography

About

Born in Figueres, Catalonia in 1904, Dalí trained in Madrid and moved through Impressionism and Cubism before joining the Surrealist group in 1929. The Persistence of Memory arrived in August 1931 and became his calling card. He spent the Spanish Civil War in France, then fled to the United States in 1940, where commercial success came easily. Returning to Spain in 1948, he declared himself Catholic again and launched into "nuclear mysticism," blending classicism and recent science. His repertoire stretched across painting, film, sculpture, fashion, and writing, but his flamboyant public perso…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí
said
Having reached the surface [in the Paris' Metro] I remained crazed for a long time, gathering my spirits.
— Quote from The Secret Life of Salvador Dali - first publication in 1942 - Vision Press, London 1976, p. 210
Salvador Dalí
said
In that privileged place, reality and the sublime dimension almost come together.
— Quote from Wikipedia: The Great Masturbator
Salvador Dalí
said
My whole ambition in the pictorial domain is to materialise the images of concrete irrationality with the most imperialist fury of precision.
— Chapter: 'My Pictorial Struggle', p. 12
Salvador Dalí
said
Surrealism in its first period offered specific methods for approaching the images of concrete irrationality.
— Chapter: 'My Pictorial Struggle', p. 13
Salvador Dalí
said
Paranoiac-critical activity is an organizing and productive force of objective chance.
— Chapter: 'My Pictorial Struggle', p. 16
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
By the numbers

Score breakdown

The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.

Fame
Falling
91.8
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum10.0
Historical32.3
Now attention27.4
Source confidence75.0
Completeness85.0
Global rank
#41
Country rank
#2
Category rank
#2
Receipts

Sources

  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence