Sublime

The Surreal World of Salvador Dalí

Genius or madman? A new exhibition may help you decide

Stanley Meisler

April 2005

Portrait of Salvador Dalí, Paris Carl Van Vechten

Salvador Dalí spent much of his life promoting himself and shocking the world. He relished courting the masses, and he was probably better known, especially in the United States, than... See more

The last canvas I saw him working on in Port Lligat was a painting of a decaying donkey, a scene lifted from Un Chien Andalou, the surrealist film he had made with Luis Buñuel in 1929. Every obsession returned. 'I am the concentric eccentric,' he said and I thought of ripples growing smaller as they vanish to nothing. He was shrinking, shrivelling,

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One day, in the summer of 1970, I was standing naked in the studio, the light behind me, the sun glinting on the waves in Port Lligat. Dalí was pleased with the study on the easel and exasperated with the roughs that littered the floor. He called Arturo. 'Get rid of this rubbish. Burn it,' he instructed and, as we left the room, the faithful

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Design for 'Destino', 1947 #salvadordali #dali https://t.co/EpC9d1NIRH