Status Updates From Dalí (Art in Focus)

The author very carefully avoids discussing controversies around Dali and his views, focusing on different areas and media of his work.

(...)Dali felt himself immediately attracted to Gala. His hysteria became so bad that his friends started to worry and asked Gala to look after him.(...) He shaved his armpits and painted them blue, cut up his shirt, smeared himself with goat dung and fish glue and stuck a red geranium over his ear. But when he saw Gala, he was only shaken by insane laughter(...).

Just stopped reading to buy a selection of lectures and poetry by Lorca 😀

" No início de 1983 o estado de saúde de Dalí piorou, uma vez que, além do mais, se recusava a comer. Obcecado pela ideia de ser imortal, pensava poder entrar, deste modo, numa hibernação artificial ..."

"Em Junho de 1926, Dalí é obrigado a abandonar a Academia pela segunda vez porque se recusa a fazer os exames: convencido do seu talento, declara que os professores não possuem qualificações suficientes para o avaliarem.

"Dalí comportava-se como um pequeno tirano, dominando a casa inteira. (...) se não lhe faziam as vontades era capaz dos mais impressionantes ataques de fúria. "