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Dali participated in many films when he moved to the United State. He co-directed the first surrealist motion picture with Luis Bunuel that was called Un Chiea A Dalou A Andalusian Dog. He designed the surrealistic dream sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound. He also filmed “Don Juan Tenorio.” By the year of 1951 Dali was famous around the world. When he was at the top of being successful he moved back to Spain. He began to experiment with sculptures. Everyone would think that he always wanted to explore more ideas but this time when he moved it was for financial reasons. Dali started to explore sculpture because it was something that he had never tried before. He also did it because it would be a lot harder for people to copy a sculpture. When he started doing sculptures, they started to look like his paintings. He explored religious themes for his artwork, and he also included erotic scenes into his work. When artists include eroticism in their artwork it normally means they are expressing their own sexual desires or frustrations. Dali did not express his own feelings, he added the erotic scenes to get a reaction out of his audience.

In 1981 Salvador Dali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. After that happened, everything started going downhill. He lost a desire to do art, and his reason to live seemed to disappear. On January 23rd 1989, the disease finally caught up with him and he died.