Salvador Dalí

[sahgwa]

You will love it! I think I left there totally insane! 

TBH just his book made me crazy in school.  College.
It 'made me' roll my kick drum down the basement stairs. Luckily it only cracked one hoop. It could have been worse....

[argentus]

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Oh Salvador, the master…

The trickster of painting, a madman of time…
A crazy self promoting nut, not a nut at all…

The brain of a poet, a lurker for words…
A man for love, not loving at all…

The beast in a moment, never enough time…
Silly your two-step, a master of words…

A painter by day, a stalker at night…
Gifted each second, with something new…

I see you in the moonlight each day and  each night…

by Sal…
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That is awesome, and amazing imagery.   I pondered it quite a bit.   I'm not certain I glean all of the symbology you present, but that's the wonderful thing about good art -- it's like a story that reads differently every time you look at it.  

Insightful and appropos prose, as always;  you identify the duality of the man.   Well done!

[MichSwampbuck]

I saw a movie about Dali on some cable programming ages ago. It was an auto-biographical kind-of-film, sort of. It was filmed at his home before he died, with him as the main character (of course). He taught himself English and was pretty hard to understand. Eccentric to the max and pretty much everyone's favorite artist in my college fine art courses, back in the day.

The instructors always asked who our favorite artist was at the beginning of a semester, and because Dali was really popular they got sick of that for an answer. So I began to say my favorite artist was H.R. Giger, known for his 1973 painting called "Penis Landscape" that was used as a Dead Kennedys album cover. He did a lot of album covers, so the cool kids knew who he was. Of course, he is better known for his work on the movie "Alien" (1979) in which he designed the alien creature, the "Derelict" ship and the dead "Space Jockey" at the ship's helm. The instructors had no clue who that was, so he became my favorite artist, when he was actually 2nd favorite at best. Hieronymus Bosch was more of a favorite, but the instructors knew him all too well and I couldn't let them think they knew it all where artists are concerned.

[Quantum12]

That is awesome, and amazing imagery.   I pondered it quite a bit.   I'm not certain I glean all of the symbology you present, but that's the wonderful thing about good art -- it's like a story that reads differently every time you look at it.  

Insightful and appropos prose, as always;  you identify the duality of the man.   Well done!

Thank you for your words. I am at 35,000 feet reading them with a smile. The person next to me on this flight is talking off my ear. So I showed her DI. Lol

[Quantum12]

I saw a movie about Dali on some cable programming ages ago. It was an auto-biographical kind-of-film, sort of. It was filmed at his home before he died, with him as the main character (of course). He taught himself English and was pretty hard to understand. Eccentric to the max and pretty much everyone's favorite artist in my college fine art courses, back in the day.

The instructors always asked who our favorite artist was at the beginning of a semester, and because Dali was really popular they got sick of that for an answer. So I began to say my favorite artist was H.R. Giger, known for his 1973 painting called "Penis Landscape" that was used as a Dead Kennedys album cover. He did a lot of album covers, so the cool kids knew who he was. Of course, he is better known for his work on the movie "Alien" (1979) in which he designed the alien creature, the "Derelict" ship and the dead "Space Jockey" at the ship's helm. The instructors had no clue who that was, so he became my favorite artist, when he was actually 2nd favorite at best. Hieronymus Bosch was more of a favorite, but the instructors knew him all too well and I couldn't let them think they knew it all where artists are concerned.

Thank you for posting this. I love it.

[argentus]

Thank you for your words. I am at 35,000 feet reading them with a smile. The person next to me on this flight is talking off my ear. So I showed her DI. Lol

Buy her a champagne.  Hey, who knows?  Maybe a friend not yet met.  Maybe more.  Imagine once she knows what an incredible artist you are.

[Quantum12]

Buy her a champagne.  Hey, who knows?  Maybe a friend not yet met.  Maybe more.  Imagine once she knows what an incredible artist you are.

I just showed her what you wrote lol, she said it’s Jack Daniel’s or nothing! I might have to find an empty seat!

[argentus]

I just showed her what you wrote lol, she said it’s Jack Daniel’s or nothing! I might have to find an empty seat!

Carpe Diem, my friend.   I once made a similar offer to my Darlin' and she chose Jamisons over champagne.  That was when I knew.

[quintessentone]

He has a sweet museum in Florida. I loved it! This one was there. I wonder what he was smoking when this was painted!
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Is that a wannabe bag over her head? (no lol)

"The Shocking Truth about Dali

Dali’s misogyny was another infamous fact of his biography. In various periods of his time, he spoke of hating his own mother or having a phobia of female genitalia that resulted in repulsion towards all women. Some Dali experts say this phobia occurred because of Dali’s father, who filled their house with books on venereal diseases in an attempt to warn his son about the dangers of sex. The action had its effect: Dali developed at once revulsion and obsession with anything remotely sexual. 
From women, he demanded praise and then hated them for it. Once, he trampled a woman who complimented the beauty of his feet. The fit of aggression, as he later explained, was caused by the obvious nature of the compliment. Even Dali’s chosen muse and manager, his wife of fifty-three years, and a person of similarly insufferable character, Gala, was not exempt from his violent tendencies. Yes, he painted her portraits and built her a castle, but he also broke and fractured several of her bones. In turn, she fed him inadequate amounts of drugs and convinced him to flood the art market with countless Dali forgeries. As a gesture of dominance and, likely, concern for her safety, Gala demanded that Dali visit her only when she sent him a hand-written permission."

The Shocking Truth About Salvador Dali | TheCollector

Another look at this artist.

[Quantum12]

Is that a wannabe bag over her head? (no lol)

"The Shocking Truth about Dali

Dali’s misogyny was another infamous fact of his biography. In various periods of his time, he spoke of hating his own mother or having a phobia of female genitalia that resulted in repulsion towards all women. Some Dali experts say this phobia occurred because of Dali’s father, who filled their house with books on venereal diseases in an attempt to warn his son about the dangers of sex. The action had its effect: Dali developed at once revulsion and obsession with anything remotely sexual. 
From women, he demanded praise and then hated them for it. Once, he trampled a woman who complimented the beauty of his feet. The fit of aggression, as he later explained, was caused by the obvious nature of the compliment. Even Dali’s chosen muse and manager, his wife of fifty-three years, and a person of similarly insufferable character, Gala, was not exempt from his violent tendencies. Yes, he painted her portraits and built her a castle, but he also broke and fractured several of her bones. In turn, she fed him inadequate amounts of drugs and convinced him to flood the art market with countless Dali forgeries. As a gesture of dominance and, likely, concern for her safety, Gala demanded that Dali visit her only when she sent him a hand-written permission."

The Shocking Truth About Salvador Dali | TheCollector

Another look at this artist.

Thank you for this. He was a true nut. He would have been better off painting in a coo coo house.

I will tell you that I knew he was nuts when I went and saw his work. He had a painting that was so big you needed a ladder to paint parts of it. 

With all his crazy detail he would have to stand on a ladder for a long time lol! 

I love his artistic brain. His coo coo side makes him him but that should be left locked up! Lol