Chi uscì con Salvador Dalí?

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

Born in Figueres in Catalonia, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age, he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his "nuclear mysticism" style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.

Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, sculpture, film, graphic arts, animation, fashion, and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays, and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork. His public support for the Francoist regime, his commercial activities and the quality and authenticity of some of his late works have also been controversial. His life and work were an important influence on other Surrealists, pop art, popular culture, and contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.

There are two major museums devoted to Salvador Dalí's work: the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres, Spain, and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.

Amanda Lear, pseudonimo di Amanda Tapp o Tap (Saigon, 18 giugno 1939), è una cantante, attrice, conduttrice televisiva e modella francese naturalizzata britannica.

Intraprese la carriera come modella all'inizio degli anni sessanta, distinguendosi per una certa androginia, che colpì anche il pittore surrealista Salvador Dalí, per il quale posò spesso e con cui intrecciò una relazione. Attirò l'attenzione del pubblico nel 1973, dopo aver posato come modella sulla copertina dell'album For Your Pleasure dei Roxy Music, grazie alla quale cominciò la storia d'amore con David Bowie, che, notando in lei un certo potenziale, la spinse ad entrare nel mondo della musica.

I suoi primi produttori furono i La Bionda, poi dal 1976 la Lear ottenne grande successo come cantante firmando un contratto con la Ariola Records di Monaco di Baviera. Dotata di una voce bassa e sensuale, e forte di un personaggio con un'aura di ambiguità e mistero, raggiunse un notevole successo come interprete di musica Disco in tutta Europa, oltre che in Sud America, Giappone e altri paesi del mondo, grazie a singoli come Tomorrow, Follow Me e Queen of Chinatown. Vanta 18 album, più di 50 singoli e circa 45 milioni di copie vendute nel mondo tra album e singoli.

Poliglotta, spigliata e dotata di grande umorismo, ha affiancato alla carriera musicale una fortunata serie di partecipazioni a programmi televisivi d'intrattenimento in Italia, Francia e Germania, prima come soubrette, poi anche come conduttrice. Ha inoltre continuato a dipingere, a scrivere e a dedicarsi alla carriera di attrice. Dal 1981 Amanda Lear vive a Saint-Étienne-du-Grès, vicino ad Avignone, nel sud della Francia.