The museum, which he designed, is ‘a great surrealist object’ that causes people to ‘leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream’. Just as he intended.

Salvador Dali embodies surrealism, but he is also a ‘poor example of the philosophy of the movement,’ scholar say. See how it lives on, in artists of today.

He was a divisive genius who redefined reality. See why his art matters, how the surrealist movement was about a lot more.