🎂 Salvador Dalí, painter of melting clocks (1904)
Where: Figueres, Spain
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📅 On This Day: May 11
May 11, 1904: Salvador Dalí, painter of melting clocks. Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí was born on this day in 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He is famous for dreamlike pictures, such as clocks that seem to melt. In his hometown there is the Dalí Theatre-Museum, which he designed himself.
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🧠 Question of the day
What famous object appears in Dalí's paintings?
- Flying shoes
- Melting clocks
- Singing flowers
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Answer: Melting clocks
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What happened on May 11?
May 11, 1904: Salvador Dalí, painter of melting clocks. It happened in Figueres, Spain.
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