Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquess of Dalí de Púbol

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) joined the Paris Surrealist group in 1929, developing what he termed the *paranoiac-critical method*—a spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based upon the critical interpretive association of delirious phenomena. His hyper-realistic, precision-rendered canvases depicted floating objects, melting clocks, bizarre metamorphic creatures, and infinite Catalan coastlines.

Collaborating with Luis Buñuel on the seminal surrealist films Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Âge d'Or (1930), Dalí later explored nuclear mysticism, Catholic symbolism, and stereoscopic painting. Alongside his muse and manager Gala, Dalí cultivated an outrageous public persona featuring an upturned waxed mustache, proclaiming that the only difference between a madman and himself was that he was not mad.