Each achievement has its own story that differs with its owner and his perception of what surrounds him, whether it is a painting, carved, engineering design, fashion group, or event other than the course of history, and whatever the work differs in its composition and the invisible strands that formed it, which you do not see Except the eye of its owner, the inspiring personality remains, is the only criterion that does not change, and that mysterious and controversial relationship remains with it, is the real spark that provokes innovation, who are the inspirers in history?

It may be difficult to imagine that a person in the madness and strangeness of the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali falls in love with a regular woman, as it must be so strange, mysterious, and crazy that it makes her a true inspiration and head of a man with the character of this unrepeated creator, and those characteristics were represented by only one woman, She is Galla Dali, his wife and companion for 53 years.

She was not loved among those close to Dali, but was, according to the description of a number of them, and his father also, abhorrent and with a bad influence on him, and the reader may judge by the same qualities the reader of some of her life's events that were encapsulated in desire, self-love and inclination to do everything she needs to feel satisfied, whether that It means giving up a marriage, a daughter, or a reputation, and her apathetic personality may be what made her more influential and inspired.

Galla was born in the name of Elena Ivanova Diakonova, on the seventh of September 1894 in the city of Kazan, then part of the Russian Empire, to a family of intellectuals interested in this field, and was among the friends of her childhood one of the most important poets of Russian literature in the twentieth century Mariana Zeftavava, and Elena later worked as a teacher in Moscow in 1915 when she was 21.

Love and flight

At the age of 17, Gala moved to a clinic near the city of Davos in Switzerland, after suffering from tuberculosis, to meet there the French poet and founder of the surrealist movement Paul Elward, where they both fell in love, to marry years later, and to give birth to her only daughter Cecil.

With Elward, the young wife recognized the surrealist movement, its artists and writers, and was the source of inspiration for a large number of them.

Handsome Spanish

In early August of 1929, Eilward and Galla visited a young surrealist painter in Spain, and that handsome Spaniard was the then-rising painter Salvador Dali, and it didn't take long before an affair began between him and her, and she was able to attract this unusual artist. And inspire him, even though she was 10 years older than him, and that spark that erupted between the two caused Gala to give up her marriage and leave her 11-year-old daughter, to live with Dali in Spain, and become his wife after five years of that, and despite That remained the friendship between her and her ex-husband, the period Which bore the name «Gala» whose title by Daley and knew him throughout her life.

A symbol of femininity

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Dali transformed his wife through his paintings, into a symbol of femininity, and was a cornerstone of his diligence and diligence, in which that woman immortalized in many ways and patterns, and despite that, Dali's suffering from the "marital relationship" phobia and his aversion to intimate closeness to his wife, made Their relationship is closer to Platonism, just as Galla called him "my young son", which did not prevent her from going through her adventures away from the marital framework, which continued throughout their marriage.

In spite of the lack of a relationship between Gala and Daly, the marital norms are natural, but the latter knew that he was fortunate in her presence in his life, that woman had turned into a manager of his works, and she was trying fiercely to promote and find the appropriate market for his paintings from one art gallery to another, where they lived a loyalty relationship A close creative love that made him include her name next to his name when he signed his artwork "Galla Salvador Dali" during the 1930s.

According to the site "Daily Art Magazine," Daly said in his book "A Secret Life" about Gala, "I especially draw with your blood Gala."

Hate and alienated

Although Daly was enchanted by a mule, it was not the same among those who knew the couple, as art historian John Richardson described her as "one of the most obscene wives a contemporary artist can have." Alongside their circle of acquaintances, Dali's father with a controlling personality also hated Galla, and with Dali's insistence on continuing the relationship, his father decided to deprive him of the inheritance, and in a symbolic reaction to this decision, Dali decided to shave his hair completely, and bury him on the shore of his city.

Cool and bereavement

The great love affair that brought together the couple, began to cool at the end of the sixties until her death a decade later, and upon her death the eighty-year-old Gala was in a relationship with the 22-year-old actor and singer Jeff Finholt, the news that disturbed Daly, as he stopped eating and began scratching his face With his nails, he was screaming and crying constantly, and continued to insult and beat his nurses, which lasted for seven years, until his death.