Salvador Dali was considered to be the greatest artist where the surrealist movement is concerned. He was a very eccentric individual, however, and had a lot to express with his art in paintings like The Great Masturbator and The Metamorphosis of Narcissus.

Not everyone understood what Dali was trying to say with his creations but there was no doubt that he was a very talented man. He also painted The Persistence of Memory and Sistine Madonna, along with a lot of other works. The main problem he had with his art was that he couldn’t go through schooling for it because he believed that he was more talented than those who would be grading him.

Because of that he never took the final exams for his studies and was twice expelled, as well. Dali believed that his exhibitionism and eccentricity helped him to be creative and that he needed to be able to express himself so that he could continue to produce artwork. He eventually stopped painting because of palsy and died a few years later from heart failure.

The Persistence of Memory
Sistine Madonna
The Great Masturbator
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus