Early Life of Salvador Dali

The Early Life of Salvador Dali Salvador Dali had a dream that turned into inspiration to create The Persistence of Memory, now a world known master piece. Dali was born in Spain in 1904, and named Salvador after his brother who had died just nine months earlier at the age of three. At the age of five, Dali’s parents took him to his brother’s grave, where they told him he was simply his brother reincarnated. Dali also visit the grave and placed flowers on it, all while looking at the tombstone with his name written on it. Thus, Dali became obsessed with his alter ego and trying to find his true self.
His father was a well off man who made regular visits to prostitutes. His father believed that somehow he had transmitted a venereal disease to his first son. Due to his father’s paranoia, Dali was shown pictures of sores and syphilis at a young age. Dali recalled these imagines as being frightening and grotesque, and began associating them with sexuality as a whole. Dali also became obsessed with his strangely complex sexuality. As an adolescent he came to realized he was poorly equipped for intercourse. A disturbing discovery, his comment in his “Unspeakable confessions” were: “For a long time I experienced the misery of believing I was impotent,”. ''Naked, and comparing myself to my school friends, I discovered that my penis was small, pitiful and soft. I can recall a pornographic novel whose Don Juan machine-gunned female genitals with ferocious glee, saying that he enjoyed hearing women creak like watermelons. I convinced myself that I would never be able to make a woman creak like a watermelon.'' Although this discovery would seem not quite that odd, for Dali masturbation would be almost the only sexual activity throughout his life.
When Dali was a young child, he wanted to be a cook, but then at age six he started painting. Dali said "When I was three I wanted to be a cook. At the age of six I wanted to be Napoleon. Since then my ambition has increased all