The reason why people become artists is that they feel they have the talent and the urge.
Salvador Dali was a surrealistic painter.
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There is usually one and the same answer to those questions 'Why did XXX become an artist?' Because they felt they had the talent and the urge. It is as simple as that!
Oil paint.
It was painted in 1978
Salvador Dalu claimed to be inspired to paint The Persistence of Memory by watching cheese melt in the sun.
Italy
It was painted in 1977.
Oil paint.
Oil paint on canvas.
His dreams or dreamlike pictures.
Landscapes.
He was a surrealist.
It was painted in 1978
because he was........
Dreamlike, seemingly realistic pictures.
When he was 5.
Salvador Dalu claimed to be inspired to paint The Persistence of Memory by watching cheese melt in the sun.
He did make it. It is not a painting, though, it is a lithograph.
His religious beliefs.