Dolly Salvador – Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Dolly_Salvador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-cezanne/curtain-jug-and-fruit-1894
https://www.dalipaintings.com/the-chair.jsp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker
Dolly Salvador is a Professor at Pigswick Academy with whom you never interact. She seems to be the Spiral’s foremost artist as one of her paintings is the famous “Dogs Playing Poker”
Dolly seems to take her inspiration from the Wizard’s homeworld in the styles of Salvador Dali, Paul Cezanne, and C. M. Coolidge
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.
Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Influenced by Impressionism and the Renaissance masters from a young age he became increasingly attracted to Cubism and avant-garde movements. He moved closer to Surrealism in the late 1920s and joined the Surrealist group in 1929, soon becoming one of its leading exponents. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931, and is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings. Dalí lived in France throughout the Spanish Civil War (1936 to 1939) before leaving for the United States in 1940 where he achieved commercial success. He returned to Spain in 1948 where he announced his return to the Catholic faith and developed his “nuclear mysticism” style, based on his interest in classicism, mysticism, and recent scientific developments.
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Dolly Salvador and her paintings are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Salvador Dali by Carl Van Vechten is borrowed from Wikipedia via the Library of Congress and is in the public domain.
The Chair by Salvador Dalí is borrowed dalipaintings.com
Curtain, Jug, and Fruit by Paul Cezanne is borrowed from Wikimedia and is in the public domain.
A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain
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