George Orwell Opinions Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944)

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Photos or Orwell and Dali by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons Ought to we maintain artists to the identical stan­dards of human decen­cy that we count on of each­one else? Ought to tal­ent­ed peo­ple be exempt from ordi­nary ethical­i­ty? Ought to artists of ques­tion­in a position char­ac­ter have their work con­signed to the trash together with…

When Salvador Dalí Created a Chilling Anti-Venereal Illness Poster Throughout World Warfare II

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As a New York Metropolis sub­method rid­er, I’m con­stant­ly uncovered to pub­lic well being posters. Most of the time these fea­ture a pho­to of an entire­some-look­ing teen whose sober expres­sion is supposed to con­vey hind­sight remorse at hav­ing tak­en up medicine, dropped out of college, or for­gone con­doms. They’re well-intend­ed, however bor­ing. I can’t imag­ine…

The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist {Photograph}, Dalí Atomicus (1948)

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Along with his cane, his well-known waxed mus­tache, and his behavior of tak­ing unusu­al ani­mals for walks, Sal­vador Dalí would seem to have cul­ti­vat­ed his personal pho­tographa­bil­i­ty. However tak­ing a pic­ture of the person who stood as a liv­ing def­i­n­i­tion of pop­u­lar sur­re­al­ism was­n’t a activity to be approached casu­al­ly — espe­cial­ly not for Philippe…

Destino: The Salvador Dalí – Disney Collaboration 57 Years within the Making

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In 2003, Dis­ney launched a six minute ani­mat­ed brief known as Des­ti­no, last­ly convey­ing clo­certain to a undertaking that started 57 years ear­li­er. The sto­ry of Des­ti­no goes method again to 1946 when two very dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al icons, Walt Dis­ney and Sal­vador Dalí, decid­ed to work togeth­er on a automobile­toon. The movie was sto­ry­board­ed by…

J. G. Ballard Demystifies Surrealist Work by Dalí, Magritte, de Chirico & Extra

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Earlier than his sig­na­ture works like The Atroc­i­ty Exhi­bi­tion, Crash, and Excessive-Rise, J. G. Bal­lard pub­lished three apoc­a­lyp­tic nov­els, The Drowned World, The Burn­ing World, and The Crys­tal World. Every of these books provides a dif­fer­ent imaginative and prescient of large-scale envi­ron­males­tal dis­as­ter, and the final even professional­vides a clue as to its inspi­ra­tion. Or…