[dah-lee] 
Sal⋅va⋅dor [sal-vuh-dawr; Sp. sahl-vah-th awr] , 1904–89, Spanish painter and illustrator. |
| Da·lí (dä'lē, dä-lē') Spanish surrealist artist known for his flamboyant personal style and his disquieting interpretation of fantastic images in meticulously rendered canvases. Among his most famous works is The Persistence of Memory (1931). Da'li·esque' (-ěsk') adj. |
A twentieth-century Spanish surrealist painter (see surrealism). Many of his landscapes are decorated with melting clocks.