Just Being Dalí
The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí
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Publisher Description
This kid-friendly picture book biography celebrates the irrepressible individuality of Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.
Salvador Dalí just couldn't help being himself. When he was little, he wasn't like the other children; he was a daydreamer who liked to play pretend. When he grew up, he became an artist, but he didn't want to make art that looked like everyone else's. He became the most famous painter of his time after he made a picture of melting clocks. He liked to do wild, attention-grabbing things: He drove a fancy car stuffed with 1,000 pounds of cauliflower. He gave a speech inside a deep-sea diving suit. And he took his pet ocelot Babou to lunch at snooty restaurants. He designed lollipop wrappers in exchange for free candy, a lobster phone that really worked, and a hat made out of a shoe! Here's the true story of the one and only Salvador Dalí, an artist who never stopped being himself.
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"In a small town on the northern edge of Spain lived a boy with big dreams and an even bigger name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech." Guglielmo breezes through the highs and lows of the painter's antic life (1904–1989), including a disapproving father and expulsion from art school, a pet bat and ocelot, a penchant for capes and elaborate facial hair, paintings featuring live worms and melting clocks, driving "a fancy car stuffed with one thousand pounds of cauliflower," and being booted from the surrealists' group—explaining it all as "Salvador couldn't help being himself." It's entertaining, but Dalí remains something of an enigma (he would probably approve). In swirling lines and jewel-like colors, Helquist's oil on paper illustrations realistically depict Dalí's carnivalesque world. An afterword offers more insights into the artist's legacy as well as the controversial reputation he earned in his own time. Ages 4–8.
