Steven Arnold

Steven F. Arnold (1943-1994), American artist and protégé of Salvador Dali, was a filmmaker, photographer, painter, illustrator, set and costume designer, art director and assemblage artist. He directed the cult feature film Luminous Procuress (1971). Salvador Dalí was so impressed with the film that he arranged a private screening at the St. Regis Hotel, to which he invited New York's elite, including Andy Warhol, who also praised the film. Arnold became a favorite of Dalí's, and in 1974 he went to study with Dali in Spain, helping Dali to embellish and inaugurate his Teatro-Museo Dalí. Arnold was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 at the height of his popularity and died in 1994.