Salvador Dali is a famous Spanish contemporary artist of the 20th century. Both Dali's paintings and his character were unique, and he remains one of the most popular painters even today. Salvador Dali's painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dali's art successes included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. He was also outspoken on political issues of the time, like many artists past and present.

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Salvador Dali's politics played a significant role in his emergence as an artist. He has sometimes been portrayed as a supporter of the authoritarian Franco. On Dalí's personality, George Orwell wrote in an essay that "One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dalí is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being. The one does not invalidate or, in a sense, affect the other." In his youth, Dalí embraced for a time both anarchism and communism.

As he grew older his political allegiances changed, especially as the Surrealist movement went through transformations under the leadership of Trotskyist André Breton, who is said to have called Dalí in for questioning on his politics. In his 1970 book Dalí by Dalí, Dalí was declaring himself an anarchist and monarchist, giving rise to speculations of Anarcho-Monarchism.

A little known fact to modern youths is the fact that Salvador Dali even designed the famous Chupa Chups logo during his time, which remains stylish and oddly contemporary even now. To be able to call on Salvador Dali for your branding is certainly a privilege modern companies would love, and is interesting to note that the logo remains intact even today.

The most famous Dali paintings include The Persistence of Memory (1931), Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment, (1935), Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936), Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937) Ballerina in a Death's Head (1939),The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946) Galatea of the Spheres (1952) & Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954). Salvador Dali is best known for his painting styles of Cubism, Dada, Surrealism though his career spanned many areas of art, at different times. His strange and wonderful creations helped develop the Surrealist art movement, and inspired some in the later Pop Art movement, including young artists such as Andy Warhol.