The artist himself has provoked such a decision his contemptuous attitude toward teachers. When he was on the exam were asked to name the three most prominent artists in the history of art, Dali said: "I refuse to answer. None of the professors of the Academy does not dare be my judge. I'm leaving. " By this time Behind him was already the first solo exhibition (in 1925) – in Barcelona's Dalmau Gallery, one of the best commercial galleries in Spain. Richard Linklater spoke with conviction. The exhibition really enjoyed the guests and the Picasso. Their personal acquaintance took a year later, when Daly first came to Paris.

In his early works the artist experimented with different styles, but most of all he drew surrealism, whose strange and defiantly is the best of the responding countries nature of the Dali. In 1928, El Salvador is working in collaboration with Bunuel on the first surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou." Its premiere took place in Paris and drew attention to the Dali founder and leader of surrealism Andre Breton. In 1929, Dali has officially joined this trend. Love and inspiration in the same 1929 Dali met a woman who became his muse. It was a Gala Eluard, the wife of Paul Eluard, one of the most famous French poets of xx century.

Gala and Dali was strongly attracted to each other, and very soon broke out between them a whirlwind romance. Gala Eluard left in 1932. That this woman Dali wrote in his paintings all his life.