Salvador Dali an artist born in Spain, is the one who created the famous painting known as The Persistence of Memory in 1931. He has overcome many obstacles at a young age, such as the loss of his mother when he was just 16 years old and that he and his father were never close. He later enrolls in an Arts Academy at Madrid, Dali dressed differently than others and had many eccentricity ideas that were both influenced by different famous artists at that time. Such as Metaphysics and Cubism, where he got the attention from his fellow classmates. During his life, he got to travel to Paris and even meet Pablo Picasso, and poet Paul Eluard and painter Rene Magritte where he was introduced to Surrealism. (Bio) This led him into a period of Surrealism
