Dali

Writing by alysemarie on Saturday, 21 of June , 2008 at 9:24 am

Thursday I went to the Salvador Dali exhibition in Montmarte. I had already seen a few of his paintings in other museums but I really didn’t know too much about him or his work.

He was was a very important surrealist artist in Paris, his paintings are so incredibly detailed and bizzare. His images are known to be not exactly as what they appear. Some people would say he was insane, but aren’t most artists a little crazy in their own right.

My favorite paintings of Dali were his illustrations of Alice in Wonderland, they were must brighter and lighter than some of his famous paintings. And plus, Alice in Wonderland is such a fun story to illustrate!

All though Dali was obviously very…. ecentric, maybe borderline insane, his sense of humor was rock solid.

I was laughing out loud by myself as I read an interview of Dali from Time Magazine. It was just a series of simple questions qsked by Philippe Halsman with hilarious one liners from Dali with pictures of him and his mustache. The interview is called Dali’s Mustache. I bought the book form of the interview. I think Ben would find it really funny, because he does love a good mustache.

“How do you celebrate Mother’s Day?”

The picture was the only response. 

Dali was not just a painted or sculpture, Dali designed clothes with Coco Chanel and Christian Dior as well as made movies with Alfred Hitchcock. He was set to make a movie with Walt Disney but it was never completed…. What if Dali HAD done a disney movie? I would LOVE to see that.

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