Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain in 1904.
== 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"
In May 1925 Dal exhibited eleven works in a group exhibition held by the newly formed Sociedad Ibrica de Artistas in Madrid

