III When it came to the Surrealist movement in art, the leader of that movement was more easily identifiable. It was Andre Breton, who also found fame later as a French poet.
Yet when one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton.
This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939.
They could expel Dali but they could not restrain him from producing paintings and sculpture in the Surrealist style.
IV
In 1931, Salvador Dali lived in Port Lligat, Spain and he was about to become famous.
Two years later, in 1933, an unknown black …show more content…
After all, Dali is intelligent and God is not….”
From French TV interview, circa 1964
I
If we had no interest whatsoever in Art, then there were only three things that we needed to know about Salvador Dali. He held such a high opinion about himself that people who came to deal with him found him to be vain, conceited and insufferable.
Secondly, as a result of this excessive self-conceit, he often got into trouble with the authorities concerned with art. He was expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts for telling off his professors that he knew more than them. As if that was not enough, later he was dismissed from the Surrealist school of art by its founder, Andre Breton.
This led us to the third question – which actually was the basis of this chapter.
How could someone who was so vain, was not the founder of any art movement -and did not even have the fame star in his birth chart -ever hope to succeed in life?
But whether his critics -of which there never seemed to be any shortage - liked it or not, Dali did become successful. In fact, whenever the term Surrealism was mentioned in art, the first name that the public thought of was Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton or Rene
Yet when one mentioned Surrealism in art, the first name that came to the minds of most art critics and students of art history was that of Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton.
This was an ironical state of affairs because Andre Breton and the Surrealists had formally expelled Salvador Dali from their art movement in 1939.
They could expel Dali but they could not restrain him from producing paintings and sculpture in the Surrealist style.
IV
In 1931, Salvador Dali lived in Port Lligat, Spain and he was about to become famous.
Two years later, in 1933, an unknown black …show more content…
After all, Dali is intelligent and God is not….”
From French TV interview, circa 1964
I
If we had no interest whatsoever in Art, then there were only three things that we needed to know about Salvador Dali. He held such a high opinion about himself that people who came to deal with him found him to be vain, conceited and insufferable.
Secondly, as a result of this excessive self-conceit, he often got into trouble with the authorities concerned with art. He was expelled from the Academy of Fine Arts for telling off his professors that he knew more than them. As if that was not enough, later he was dismissed from the Surrealist school of art by its founder, Andre Breton.
This led us to the third question – which actually was the basis of this chapter.
How could someone who was so vain, was not the founder of any art movement -and did not even have the fame star in his birth chart -ever hope to succeed in life?
But whether his critics -of which there never seemed to be any shortage - liked it or not, Dali did become successful. In fact, whenever the term Surrealism was mentioned in art, the first name that the public thought of was Salvador Dali, not Andre Breton or Rene