Salvador Dali - is undoubtedly the best known of the surrealist artists. He studied in Barcelona and later in Madrid at the Academy of San Fernando. At that time he had the opportunity to meet Lorca and Buñuel. His early works are influenced by Gris's cubism and Giorgio De Chirico's metaphysical painting. Finally, it joined the surrealism, along with its friend Luis Buñuel, filmmaker. In 1924 the painter was expelled from the Academy and began to be interested in Freud's psychoanalysis, of great importance throughout his work. His first trip to Paris in 1927 was crucial to his career. He befriended Picasso and Breton and was enthusiastic about the work of Tanguy and the mannerist Arcimboldo. The film Andalusian Dog, which he made with Buñuel, dates from 1929. He created the concept of “critical paranoia” to refer to the attitude of those who refuse the logic that governs people's common life. According to him, it is necessary to “contribute to the total discredit of reality ”. In the late 1930s, he went to Italy several times to study the great masters. He set up his studio in Rome, although he continued to travel. After meeting in London Sigmund Freud, he made a trip to America, where he published his biography The Secret Life of Salvador Dali (1942). Upon his return, he settled definitively in Port Lligat with his wife, Gala, ex-wife of the poet and friend Paul Éluard. From 1970 until his death he devoted himself to the design and construction of his museum. In addition to painting, he developed sculptures and designs of jewelry and furniture.

Joan Miró - started her training as a painter at La Lonja School in Barcelona. In 1912 he entered the art school of Francisco Gali, where he met the work of the French impressionists and fauvists. At that time, he became friends with Picabia and shortly after with Picasso and his cubist friends, in whose group he militated for some time. In 1920 Miró settled in Paris (although in the summer he returned to Montroig), where a group of fellow painters had been formed, including Masson, Leiris, Artaud, and Lial. Two years later it acquired La masía form, fundamental work in its later stylistic development and in which Miró demonstrated great graphic precision. From then on his painting changed radically. Breton spoke of it as the ultimate in surrealism and allowed himself to be singled out as one of the great lonely geniuses of the twentieth century and of art history. Miró's famous magic is manifested in these canvases with clear features and sincere shapes in appearance, but difficult to elucidate, although they are friendly to the viewer. Miró also devoted himself to ceramics and sculpture, in which he surpassed his pictorial concerns.

Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) Mexican painter and her full name were Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón. Although her paintings were classified as surrealistic, Frida herself denied that she was surrealistic because she said that she did not paint dreams but her own reality. He stood out in defending the rescue of Aztec culture as a form of opposition to the European imperialist cultural system. He studied at an early age at the National Preparatory School. At the age of 18 suffered a serious bus accident. To occupy his spare time, during the recovery, he began to paint. In August 1929, he married the Mexican painter Diego Rivera with whom he had a tumultuous and unstable marriage. She lived in the United States with her husband between 1931 and 1934. She divorced Rivera in 1939, although she had relations with him in the following years. In 1939 Frida exhibited his work in Paris at the Renon et Collea gallery. She suffered three miscarriages during her life. He had a life marked, especially after divorce, by alcohol abuse. He said it was to alleviate the suffering that always marked his life.

Frida Kahlo's artistic style features:

Approach to unorthodox subjects;

Influence of Mexican indigenous folk art, Aztec culture, European artistic tradition, Marxism and avant-garde artistic movements;

He painted many self-portraits, dead landscapes, and imaginary scenes;

Use of strong and vivid colors and approach to themes of your own life;

Presence of symbolic objects in his works.