Spanish
Spanish painter, designer of jewellery, etc. and stage-sets, book illustrations and writer, notorious for his extravagant and eccentric statements about himself. He joined the Surrealist movement in Paris in 1929, making the Surrealist films Le Chien Andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1931) with L. Bunuel and painting such works as The Persistence of Memory (1931) and Premonition of Civil War (1936). His paintings, which he has called 'hand-painted dream photographs', are characterised by minute detail, virtuoso technique, ingenuity and showmanship, together with elements of Freudian dream symbolism.