Tried very hard to get Surrealism when a student studying the poetry of Paul “le monde est bleu comme un orange” Eluard, but eventually concluded that it was a load of tosh.
As with many things in life, if something sounds like nonsense no matter how many people think otherwise and how many times they explain it, then it’s probably nonsense.
14 July 2014
EXXO
Not sure what explanation of surrealism is necessary really when you’ve got the likes of Dali, Magritte, Ionescu, Bunuel, Monty Python, HMHB, etc, etc – works of hilarious angry beauty sticking fingers up at the old order and delving into the subconscious. Who needs a manifesto ? The ‘explanations’ you read were all piss-takes, surely?
14 July 2014
Radar
Famously redesigned the Chupa Chups logo in 1969, stuck it in the flower shape frame that subsequently adorned the Sheffield Wednesday kit in the early 2000s
14 July 2014
Guest informant
There is a photo-interview book he did with Philippe Halsman where the answers generally involve Dali doing silly things with his moustache. Such as:
Dali, why do you paint? Because I love art See here for the punchline. Avida Dollars indeed.
29 July 2014
peter mcornithologist
Track on Trout Mask Replica ,Dalis Car, still sounds fine. Also the name of a band from the eighties methinks.
29 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Dali declared that Perpignan train station is the centre of the universe. Personally I disagree.
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Salvador Dali is an anagram of Avida Dollars.
11 July 2014
Third rate Les
Tried very hard to get Surrealism when a student studying the poetry of Paul “le monde est bleu comme un orange” Eluard, but eventually concluded that it was a load of tosh.
As with many things in life, if something sounds like nonsense no matter how many people think otherwise and how many times they explain it, then it’s probably nonsense.
14 July 2014
EXXO
Not sure what explanation of surrealism is necessary really when you’ve got the likes of Dali, Magritte, Ionescu, Bunuel, Monty Python, HMHB, etc, etc – works of hilarious angry beauty sticking fingers up at the old order and delving into the subconscious. Who needs a manifesto ? The ‘explanations’ you read were all piss-takes, surely?
14 July 2014
Radar
Famously redesigned the Chupa Chups logo in 1969, stuck it in the flower shape frame that subsequently adorned the Sheffield Wednesday kit in the early 2000s
14 July 2014
Guest informant
There is a photo-interview book he did with Philippe Halsman where the answers generally involve Dali doing silly things with his moustache. Such as:
Dali, why do you paint?
Because I love art
See here for the punchline. Avida Dollars indeed.
29 July 2014
peter mcornithologist
Track on Trout Mask Replica ,Dalis Car, still sounds fine. Also the name of a band from the eighties methinks.
29 October 2014
peter mcornithologist
Dali declared that Perpignan train station is the centre of the universe. Personally I disagree.
16 December 2014