Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Dali = Complete nut

He was 3 bread baskets short of a loaf as a surrealist painter.

I've never seen someone more obsessed with things standing on naked women, body mutilation, and dead animals.

Some of his stuff is tough to stomach, like drawings of rats crawling through holes in a woman's torso and a horse on top of a body of a mutilated women being pulled in weird directions, and other stuff was just really cool: a drawing of his wife in the center of a blurred block frame that if you step back from looks like Abraham Lincoln. He also arranged furniture from a room to make it look like a woman's face.

At one point I approached a firehose in the wall because I thought it was one of his artworks. It took me about 5 seconds of close examination to realize it was just the firehose.

Even the museum building is a work of his art as he created it himself in the 70s. It's called Teatro Museu Dali.

Dali called the painting above "Happy Horse." How happy does that horse look to you? Haha


Was it worth the $25 train ride (return trip) and the $16 admission? Sort of. If you don't use that much money a day you can't do anything in Barcelona.

2 Comments:

Blogger ben said...

was the melting clock painting there? It might be in some other museum...

January 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM  
Blogger Jimmy said...

I don´t think it was there. I don´t remember specifically a melting clock

February 11, 2009 at 5:14 AM  

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