Salvador Dali

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Noun1.Salvador Dali - surrealist Spanish painter (1904-1989)
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(Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) By 1939, Andreacute Breton, co-founder of the Surrealist movement, coined the derogatory nickname "Avida Dollars," an anagram for "Salvador Daliacute" and a phonetic rendering of avide a dollars or "eager for dollars," as a commentary on the increasing commercialization of Dali's work, resulting in the artist's expulsion from the movement.
coined the anagrammatic nickname "Avida Dollars," the