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The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, in association with the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. Ronni Baer, the Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of European Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, were the curators. The exhibition was made possible by Shell Oil Company Foundation on behalf of the employees of Shell Oil Company. The exhibition was supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904 and he was very naughty in his childhood, and often interrupted his class in school. As he grown up, he started to paint pictures that came from his dreams which were scary and unreal. He went to art school in Madrid, Spain and got kicked out of class, for not completing the work. He had even spent his time in jail and continued to paint, and his art style had become as Surrealism.

He was died at the age of 85 in 1989, had created works in film, ballet, opera, fashion, jewelry, and advertising illustrations.

1. The Persistence of Memory
2. Crucifixion
3. The Sacrament of the Last Supper

After entering the new century, including the visual arts oil painting faces new environment - on the one hand, high-tech technology and the fame of digital imaging, into our "image flooding" of the times, life-like images at your fingertips. On the other hand, drawing on the traditional concept of national reunification, constraints and reducing the teaching of Chinese oil painting in painting and painting the value and status. Though, practice in the arts, oil painting is still considered a teaching and mastering the process of painting techniques and the basic means necessary, most artists are still painting and artistic creation as an integral part. It is obvious that today's "Painting" is not the past, "Sketches", also outside or indoor painting light painting, whether it is inherited Hao, Huang Quan of the painting. The studies of painting impersonator painter, painting purpose, meaning and specific methods have undergone profound transformation...