Post by TRE on Oct 10, 2010 21:05:36 GMT -5
Yellow universe of Butterflies
On a good day Mr. Salvadore Dali was a gifted and inspired visionary
An adequate depiction of Dali and his personal mythology of insulating himself with a world of his creation would be a marvel of the 21st century to be certain and likely is something that will help many people understand the truth about the bastardization of old world indigenous values bas the cultural genocide which occurred somewhere in the 20th century with the advent of television and nuclear fission.
Dali was a teen in a world of wonder which bloomed and was quickly cut down by global interests associated with the first world war. He managed personal crisis as the loss of his mother, the imperfection of every other woman compared with his sister, and the wholly consuming truths of ways of his father as a means of addressing modernity which drove him to search the world over for the voice change which might drown out this uniquely iron clad perspective on social norms which his father seemed to hold.
To have seen Dali on 'Whats My Line' in the 60's and tried to have made a guess at the depth of this man would have to understood that tragedy which was unfolding in his magical attempts to share his soul with t he world as commercial commodity and naive integrity. Dali was an artist who needed the world to come to him and this is the motivation likely driving the folks at Infinitum Nihil to capture some of the most striking and controversial footage within their own biopic of Salvadore Dali....
For all of Dali's fascination and quizzical exploration of conceptual creative processes there is a darker side to him.
Poetry of America
Here is a painting by Dali called Poetry of America
Dali gave the following explanation in a taped interview in the summer of 1966 and it is neither kind nor savory when it comes to clarifying what loathing he has for the American Consumer:
"What the American people like best is: first, blood - you have seen all the great American movies, especially the historical ones; there are always scenes where the hero is beaten in the most sadistic way in the world and where one witnesses veritable orgies of blood!
Second, Americans like soft watches. Why? Because they are always looking at their watches. They are always in a hurry, terribly pressed for time, and their watches are horribly rigid, hard, and mechanical. Therefore, the day when Dalí painted for the first time a soft watch, this was a great success! Because for once this awful object, which marked minute by minute the ineluctable sequence of their lives and reminded them of their urgent business, all of a sudden had become as soft as Camembert cheese when it is at its best, when it starts to run.
Next, the greatest passion of the American people is when they see little children killed. Why? Because, according to the greatest psychologists in the United States, the massacre of the innocents is the favourite theme, the one which is found in the innermost depths of their subconscious minds, since they are constantly annoyed by children, so that their libido projects itself filling the cosmic surfaces of their dreams. If Americans adore bloody orgies and the slaughter of the innocents and soft watches which run like real French Camembert when it is just right, it is because what they love most in the world are 'dot,' or bits of data, those information bits that symbolize the discontinuity of matter. It is for that reason that all today's Pop art is made up of information 'dots.'"
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His recorded release of commentary associated with this image is entirely scathing and full of vitrol.... Read at your own risk but understand that the man lived through Fascism in his country and the murder of many of his colleagues as a part of accepting that social progress eliminates obstructions in its path...
Johnny Depp has given some consideration to the Salvador Dali Biopic with good reason.... The flim needs to be made and understood within the context of the World Wars through which Dali emerged as a world class artist unscathed but also unrequited in his personal and political extremes... Dali was a man of great passion and even greater torment. Whether this sort of Poetry in Motion suits the current progress of Depp's career and evoluton as an actor leading the world to some particular vision remains to be seen.
I am comfortable with the thought of John embracing Dali's as Poetry of America in Sickness and in Wealth