As one of the protagonists of surrealism Salvador Dalí ranks among the most famous painters of the 20th Century. Around the year 1929 Dalí had found his personal style and his genre, the world of the unconscious, which appears in dreams. Melting clocks and burning giraffes became Dalís identifying feature. His technical ability made it possible to him to paint his pictures in an old-masterly style, which reminds the beholder of later photo-realism.
Apart from the dream world Dalís most frequent topics is the world intoxication, fever and religion; his wife Gala is often depicted in his paintings.