Salvador Dali was Spanish.
 Picasso had already heard favorable reports about Dal from Joan Mir, a fellow Catalan who later introduced him to many Surrealist friends
== Politics and personality ===== Politics and religion ===As a youth, Dal identified as communist, anti-monarchist and anti-clerical and in 1924 he was briefly imprisoned by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship as a person "intensely liable to cause public disorder"

