Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a Spanish surrealist painter renowned for the technical precision and dreamlike imagery of works such as The Persistence of Memory (1931). One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he worked across painting, sculpture, film (Un Chien Andalou with Luis Buñuel; collaborations with Hitchcock and Disney), printmaking, design and writing (Wikipedia)