"Im totally fake-deep, highly narcissistic, and constantly post cliche inspirational quotes over selfies of myself. " - Every Attractive Social Media Influencer
Fun fact: When Dali ate at a restaurants, he nearly never paid for the meal. He would write a cheque for the bill, but then start doodling on the back. As a result, any restaurateurs who knew him refused to cash them.
That was most famously Picasso, but others pulled that trick as well. There was even a Saturday Night Live skit with John Lovitz as Picasso paying just signing napkins and other paper and using it as money in a restaurant. It's funny, yes, but it's also a demonstration of what a grifter he was.
You totally missed an inportant piece of his Brother's death. The older brother was also named Salvador. Dali was essentially named after his dead brother. This just added to his emotional issues in his early years.
Same as my uncle who was named after his older brother who had passed away before he was born. Although I don't know this uncle very well so I don't know if he has any emotional issues about it.
My dad ran away from home a couple times. When he was 10, he was on the road for most of three months before he got busted, sent to reform school and then sent back home. He did it again when he was 12 and was gone until he was 16. My grandparents named my newborn uncle the same name as my dad in that period. To say that the two of them didn't get along is putting it mildly.
Many years ago my uncle Joe purchased a relatively inexpensive painting at an auction in New York city. I'm not totally clear on all of the details but Dali really wanted that painting and contacted my uncle in an attempt to buy it from him. Being an avid art collector and a huge fan of Dali, he just gifted him the painting and had it crated and delivered. Dali was so touched by this gesture that he reciprocated by giving him a one off painting with my uncle's last name incorporated into it. I had another uncle "Manny", Joe's younger brother, who purchased a Dali statue. I was a little kid but I'll never forget it. It was a small, solid gold Giraffe with two drawers protruding from its chest, one of which was held up by a crutch in a very typical Salvador Dali style! BTW, John Lennon was a college dropout too!
As is the case for so many creative souls in this life, poor Dali was a victim of his own talent. He crossed that line between being a superb artist and a joke.
I swear Simon Whistler will rule the RUclips algorithms no matter how many times RUclips tries to change viewing habits, Simon's channels are... E V E R Y W H E R E.
2 of his paintings are in the New Brunswick Art museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I remember the day my mother and father showed me these paintings. I spent hours staring in awe.
Yeah I can't play the drinking game at all with Biographics (although I do enjoy them when I'm not drinking). No script slaps, no bada boom boom, no memes.
Well, if they don't give you good markings, ask to re-do it, then bring a piece of cheddar and tell it is the soap our lord used before the last supper.
I know, right? I saw that at one of his exhibitions and I was amazed that they'd finally managed to realise hus vision. If anyone here hasn't seen it yet look it up on RUclips!
After seeing this comment, I excitedly paused this, searched the title, and supringingly found the entire short film in full right here on RUclips for free. ...And though it is a proper collaboration between two legendary figures within the world of both animation, imagination, and popular media.... was.... ummm... definitely not my personal cup of tea. And in my opinion: was a waste of both worlds producing efforts..... * * *shrug* * * ......Twas lesser then the two combined equal parts. I.E. cheese cake = amazing. McDonald's chicken nuggets = awesome. Chicken nuggets dipped into a sauce made of whipped cream cheese? = awesomely amazing?!? No. Not at all man. C'mon....
And a good morning to all! Thank you Simon & co for all the content during quarantine. You guys are all great, much appreciation to you all. Keep up the great work.
Back in the glam rock era, I took arty dates to the Dali Museum in Cleveland (eventually it moved to Florida). It was the largest collection of Dali works in the western hemisphere. A Spanish teacher showed us "Un Chien Andalou." Then when I approached 60, I met an English Lord who lived next to Dali in Cadaques, Spain. His recollections of Dali were exactly what you'd imagine. Hence, given the era in which I grew up, and my personal but removed connection to him, Salvador Dali is my favorite artist. In a puerile, happenstance way, he was part of my life.
When I did a summer abroad in Spain, I had the great opportunity to go to his museum in Figueras. His sculpture installments are very intriguing. Actually, the building itself is an installment as the ceiling in the main atrium is made of domed glass, like the eyes of an insect
Dalí's life is like a house fire. Glorious and terrible to watch while it's unfolding, but after it's done, practically nothing of value is left of it.
You should do one for the Japanese man that survived the two nuclear bombs that hit Japan. That man lived we'll pass his 70s, so yeah that dude is a true champ.
I wandered the same coastline as a child. I met Dali with my father and saw him many more times. The coastline as far as La Fosca beach (Palamos) remains magical.
That was probably the most well written, most informing and most interesting biography I saw on this channel so far. The depth of the artistic interpretations are yours, Simon or the author’s Malt Schlitzmann?
Simon, you are one of the most professional, likeable, funny and easy to listen to people on RUclips. I have learned tons of history because of you and I'd like to give my thanks. Keep doing what you're doing, you're the best at it!
Y’all, Lincoln in Dalivision is one of the best things ever, it’s like a naked lady, but when you step back, its Lincoln. That’s why he is the best artist of all time. PERIOD!
You can go back centuries and find many artists who painted bizarre optical illusions, and they did it better than Dali. He was over-rated. The Surrealists were right to throw him out.
This dude was simultaneously a genius and a lunatic. Anybody who's tried to draw the melting clocks knows what I mean. Picasso had nothing on this beautiful madman. Also simon killed it in this video and scripting was fantastic. That ending too. I've never simultaneously had chills while getting triggered. Bravo biographics.
Salvadors nap time was him holding a spoon between thumb, pointer and middle finger. As he nodded the weight of the spoon would be pulled by gravity and his hand becoming relaxed the spoon would fall, hit the floor and Dali would wake and get back at his tasking.
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, childhood in Cadaqués too. There is something very important. Those small towns are in a area where tramontane blowns even though extremely heavy. As their own inhabitats claim, that wind "touches" their heads. Original idioms: Tocats per la tramuntana (touched by the tramontane).
This was so interesting, Dali is my absolute favourite artist. His art makes me feel some type of way, like staring into the abyss of time but finding comfort it in. Idek how to describe it. My favourite painting of his is the Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Portrait of the young artist as a Portrait artist 4:35 - Chapter 2 - The art of confidence 5:55 - Chapter 3 - The secret of good art is artistry 7:50 - Chapter 4 - Paranoia & friends 10:35 - Mid roll ads 12:25 - Chapter 5 - Time keeps on slippin' 15:50 - Chapter 6 - Dali & his muse 17:05 - Chapter 7 - Things get out of hand 18:30 - Chapter 8 - Image & artist 20:30 - Chapter 9 - Things get weirder 22:00 - Chapter 10 - Salvadore CK 24:10 - Chapter 11 - The clock melts down
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali is a book that exposes a lot of his bizarre behavior. Dali was never a great guy, he would cheat collectors like Edward James, and he had at least two people painting his works for him by the 1970s. His weird sex romps were strange, but each to his own. The saddest comment in the book was at his death, his long time house servants was not left a dime ...and said, "Senior Dali never loved anyone"...Quite a sad epitaph. For me his illustration skills were never as interesting as Picasso, Miro, and Man Ray. BTW, Man Ray needs a Simon Bio!
Robert Giles: I agree - his artistic skills were not that evolved. In fact, the "Basket of Bread" is prosaically rendered, and highlights his lack of abilities in depth and texture. Dali is overrated, in no small part due to his preciously nurtured "eccentricities" ...proving the point that people will take one at their own worth. He was a self-made legend - as opposed to an organic legend that evolves on the strength of the subject, and not devised by the subject himself.
What a load of horse crap... Dali’s later paintings like Virgin of Guadalupe, Hallucinogenic toreador, Rafealesqe head explosion, the ecumenical council, and Discovery of America by Columbus. Are simply put... MASTERPIECES. On par with the greatest artists in history. Dali was EASILY the greatest painter of the last century. Leaving his peers looking like children doodling in a coloring book.👍🤣
@mae comeaux So informed means "biased" and good to know how unbiased YOU are. Just look at the pretty pictures then and don't worry about what I think. Knowing something about how the artist lived matters to some people.
As much as we think of Dali as a daring experimental surrealist artist. But, we need to respect his strengths in traditional style. I think he had the basic skills in a very strong way. And, from there he challenges us.
I'm sure a handler was right off stage. He tossed it around, but they have wicked claws,and you don't want one latching on to you. That said,shouldn't have used it for a prop. A umbrella would have done. It's Dali... Everyone would have expected the umbrella to do something. It was a different time. That anteater is probably still alive.
@@--enyo-- well said,guess Trump has desensitized me ,regardless of the "Me Too" movement. For that,I apologize, I was focused on the statement, not the overall content of the peice. He was incredibly talented, but flawed,in a despicable way. Thanks for bringing me back to the most important part of the subject. Gives me more to consider, if I ever get to the museum. Peace !✌
I wrote a research paper on his metamorphosis of narcissus. The connection he felt between his life and that myth is really on display in the painting.
Brilliant. One of your best, Simon. It's quite incredible how you maintain such a high level of passion for such a wide breadth of subjects; before Dali I watched your film on the Titanic and her sister liners. You never fail to impress.
In the top left corner. Dali is painted 3 different time. Move the picture to the top to see a picture of him and his mother. Flip the picture again. And the top left corner turns into his face looking down. And flip it how it was painted you can see the half top of his head... Dali painted in 2 forms. To a image and a 3 forms to a image.
Tried to bring my mum to the Dali museum in Florida but it was not very handicapped accessible. So disappointing but still worth a trip for those who can walk through it.
I live in St. Petersburg, FL, home of the Dali museum. I go every 6 months or so, as art work gets moved around from other museums and private collections. The man was a gifted surrealist, no mushrooms required.
He said, "if Dali ever remarked on the irony of dying in the building that birthed him as an artist, it wasn't recorded." How would he be able to remark on the irony if he was dead??? lmao
Years ago I made up a pickup line that I used if she said she liked painting/art. “I like my women like a Dali painting: provocative, interesting and usually nude”. Throughout the years this has worked better than I could have ever imagined so feel free to steal it and see how it works for you.
Yet it grabs you from across the room, draws you over, and won't let go. It's almost unfair to the other paintings. He wasn't just weird; he was good at weird.
You won’t believe it today 1AM I was searching for a Biographics vid about Salvador Dalí and didn’t see it and today I went to see the channel and saw the Salvador Dalí 😱
I've been to Figueres. It's a ghastly, soulless place. Apart from the Dalí museum, it has nothing going for it. It's a one horse town in which said horse wandered off to somewhere else out of sheer boredum.
Very well observed about his life, and well written (except that cheap Olive Garden shot, which has just become a very tired---dare I add, limp?---joke). This is an accomplishment since it covers so much territory in such short order. I visited Dali's house in 1998. It didn't look like it'd been changed in any way since I first saw pictures of it in 1968!---not one stone, candle-holder or pillow appeared to have been moved after all those years. I assume the earlier pictures likely were used to put everything back in exact places to match those earlier photographs once Dali had passed away.
I think the Italian director Fellini was influenced by him. I could be wrong and often am! He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock in the film Spellbound. From memory it was the dream sequence. Edit: I should watch the entire video before commenting!
I have been to the Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain. Probably the most amazing art museum I have ever been to, and I’ve been to a few! There is also a small museum with his works of art in jewelry. I had never heard of them before seeing them in person and was stunned by them.
Wishlist (Spain): El Cid Alfonso the Battler Roger de Lauria Isabella I Ferdinand II Joanna the Mad Carlos I Philip II Juan de Austria Hernan Cortes Francisco Pizarro
He once sent a telegram to Nicolae Ceausescu after the latter named himself president of Romania (and awarded himself a king-sized sceptre), congratulating him on "introducing the presidential sceptre."
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Thank you for the subtitles on the video
make visualpolitic EN content man
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Been waiting for months for this video made my day thanks 😍
"I don't take drugs. I am drugs."
- Salvador Dali
Sweeet
My favorite Dali quote.
Dali is legal. So drugs should be.
It would help many problems.
He should've said "I dno't tkae dgrus. I am dgurs!" or something.
@@wilfridwibblesworth2613 lol.
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali
'I'm gonna jizz on you'
-Salvador Dali
"Im totally fake-deep, highly narcissistic, and constantly post cliche inspirational quotes over selfies of myself. "
- Every Attractive Social Media Influencer
@Julian Palmer
E for Effort lol
"I hate ethnicities" - Salvador Dali
You know you are quoting a fascist, yes? 😂
Fun fact: When Dali ate at a restaurants, he nearly never paid for the meal. He would write a cheque for the bill, but then start doodling on the back. As a result, any restaurateurs who knew him refused to cash them.
That was Picasso
Also the same trick of Jack Charlton, the once manager of the Irish football team
That was most famously Picasso, but others pulled that trick as well.
There was even a Saturday Night Live skit with John Lovitz as Picasso paying just signing napkins and other paper and using it as money in a restaurant.
It's funny, yes, but it's also a demonstration of what a grifter he was.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns my 6 year old granddaughter has more talent than Picasso
Fun "fact"
You totally missed an inportant piece of his Brother's death. The older brother was also named Salvador. Dali was essentially named after his dead brother. This just added to his emotional issues in his early years.
Yikes.
The same as Sarah Pardee Winchester, she was named after a sister who passed before her.
Same as Vincent Van Gogh
Same as my uncle who was named after his older brother who had passed away before he was born. Although I don't know this uncle very well so I don't know if he has any emotional issues about it.
My dad ran away from home a couple times. When he was 10, he was on the road for most of three months before he got busted, sent to reform school and then sent back home.
He did it again when he was 12 and was gone until he was 16. My grandparents named my newborn uncle the same name as my dad in that period.
To say that the two of them didn't get along is putting it mildly.
"Still fresher than anything served at the olive garden" SIMON!!!
No no he's got a point.
Worked there for a while. Definitely is fresher.
He’s not wrong
The truth hurts!
What in the business blaze is going on here
Ahahahahahhahahahaha olive garden hahahahaha soooooo funny ahahahahaaa the garden ahahahahahaahaaa
“As a young man, a woman complimented his beautiful feet, so he responded by trampling her...” Well, as one does, I suppose.
Many years ago my uncle Joe purchased a relatively inexpensive painting at an auction in New York city. I'm not totally clear on all of the details but Dali really wanted that painting and contacted my uncle in an attempt to buy it from him. Being an avid art collector and a huge fan of Dali, he just gifted him the painting and had it crated and delivered. Dali was so touched by this gesture that he reciprocated by giving him a one off painting with my uncle's last name incorporated into it. I had another uncle "Manny", Joe's younger brother, who purchased a Dali statue. I was a little kid but I'll never forget it. It was a small, solid gold Giraffe with two drawers protruding from its chest, one of which was held up by a crutch in a very typical Salvador Dali style! BTW, John Lennon was a college dropout too!
So was Hitler
Great little story... thanks
So was mark Zuckerberg
So was Kanye west
Did he sell it later?
That melting clock was on my junior year chemistry book. I thought it appropriate given how odd chemistry was.
I think we had that same book haha
My Physical Chemistry textbook in college should have had Munch’s The Scream on the cover.
As is the case for so many creative souls in this life, poor Dali was a victim of his own talent. He crossed that line between being a superb artist and a joke.
Acquaintance saw Dali performance art.Big prank on the audience 5 minute drive by.nope
Gerald Friend what
Poor Dali my ass.
I swear Simon Whistler will rule the RUclips algorithms no matter how many times RUclips tries to change viewing habits, Simon's channels are...
E V E R Y W H E R E.
We are not far from the day where Simon IS the algorithm
Yeup. The next season of "Cobra Kia" is going to be "Cobra Kia: Dojo of Simon Whistler."
Welcome to SimonTube
So, how many is it? I know.. 4? There's gotta be more though.
I for one, welcome our anglo accented overlord.
Simon being sassy for almost 30 minutes. I lost it when he said “still fresher than anything served at Olive Garden”. Simon, I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!
Saw him once a long time ago in Figueras, I was just outside his museum and he was watching from a window. He died shortly afterwards.
"Expect a revival of monarchist-anarchism on GOOP any day now" 😂😂😂 incredible jab
"That bread is 90 years old and still is fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden" Hahaha, timeless.
2 of his paintings are in the New Brunswick Art museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I remember the day my mother and father showed me these paintings. I spent hours staring in awe.
Little Fredericton is so lucky to have these paintings.
I kept expecting Simon to do the businessblaze rim shot after he made every quip.
Yeah I can't play the drinking game at all with Biographics (although I do enjoy them when I'm not drinking). No script slaps, no bada boom boom, no memes.
"This autobiography might not be true, but as autobiographies go, it is accurate."
- Salvador Dali.
I love Dalí. Love the colors of his surrealist work! Favorite painter.
The Dali museum in Clearwater Fl is one of the best art museums in the US. When I visited they also had an MC Escher exhibition!!
This is a good one. It's nice when the presenter knows what they're talking about and has a passion for the subject matter.
Salvador Dali, the very image of the eccentric artist and the inspiration for one of my favorite characters in Bioshock - Sander Cohen.
Never put that together but now I totally see it
This would have been perfect for my Surrealism essay. Too bad the deadline was yesterday 😭😫
Well, if they don't give you good markings, ask to re-do it, then bring a piece of cheddar and tell it is the soap our lord used before the last supper.
@@MrDUneven what 😂
Argh!!! Goes to show you’re still thinking about your essay, hope you get a good grade! 👍
The essay could be resume to: "Dalí; a mad man, a mad genius, a mad artist, totally mad."
Simon's humor was seriously on point in this one. I died of laughter.
Is it his? Or the author's? Perhaps a collaboration?
@@surlygirly1926 it's 100% a collaboration between the writers, editors, and Simon. Everyone gets their hand in the soup :)
Dali: one of history's most creative troll.
Most def
He does a minimal amount of tomfoolery
I am surprised his collaboration with Walt Disney in "Destino" was never even mentioned.
I know, right? I saw that at one of his exhibitions and I was amazed that they'd finally managed to realise hus vision. If anyone here hasn't seen it yet look it up on RUclips!
I'm also surprised he left out how his surrealist colleagues tried to destroy a painting of Lenin with elongated buttocks
Because this video is about Dali, not Disney. 🤦🏻♀️
After seeing this comment, I excitedly paused this, searched the title, and supringingly found the entire short film in full right here on RUclips for free.
...And though it is a proper collaboration between two legendary figures within the world of both animation, imagination, and popular media.... was.... ummm... definitely not my personal cup of tea. And in my opinion: was a waste of both worlds producing efforts.....
* * *shrug* * *
......Twas lesser then the two combined equal parts. I.E. cheese cake = amazing. McDonald's chicken nuggets = awesome. Chicken nuggets dipped into a sauce made of whipped cream cheese? = awesomely amazing?!? No. Not at all man. C'mon....
And a good morning to all! Thank you Simon & co for all the content during quarantine. You guys are all great, much appreciation to you all. Keep up the great work.
Back in the glam rock era, I took arty dates to the Dali Museum in Cleveland (eventually it moved to Florida). It was the largest collection of Dali works in the western hemisphere. A Spanish teacher showed us "Un Chien Andalou." Then when I approached 60, I met an English Lord who lived next to Dali in Cadaques, Spain. His recollections of Dali were exactly what you'd imagine. Hence, given the era in which I grew up, and my personal but removed connection to him, Salvador Dali is my favorite artist. In a puerile, happenstance way, he was part of my life.
When I did a summer abroad in Spain, I had the great opportunity to go to his museum in Figueras. His sculpture installments are very intriguing. Actually, the building itself is an installment as the ceiling in the main atrium is made of domed glass, like the eyes of an insect
“Why did you include hitler’s picture in your painting”
“Because i wanted to”
Dalí's life is like a house fire. Glorious and terrible to watch while it's unfolding, but after it's done, practically nothing of value is left of it.
The paintings?
I wonder if Dali feel the same?
“The only difference between Dali and a madman is... I am not mad.”
😁👍
You should do one for the Japanese man that survived the two nuclear bombs that hit Japan. That man lived we'll pass his 70s, so yeah that dude is a true champ.
I wandered the same coastline as a child. I met Dali with my father and saw him many more times. The coastline as far as La Fosca beach (Palamos) remains magical.
That was probably the most well written, most informing and most interesting biography I saw on this channel so far. The depth of the artistic interpretations are yours, Simon or the author’s Malt Schlitzmann?
Simon, you are one of the most professional, likeable, funny and easy to listen to people on RUclips. I have learned tons of history because of you and I'd like to give my thanks. Keep doing what you're doing, you're the best at it!
I love Dali, he was so freaky. When you mentioned Goop, I fell out😂😂😂
Y’all, Lincoln in Dalivision is one of the best things ever, it’s like a naked lady, but when you step back, its Lincoln. That’s why he is the best artist of all time. PERIOD!
You can go back centuries and find many artists who painted bizarre optical illusions, and they did it better than Dali. He was over-rated. The Surrealists were right to throw him out.
Marla Worrill. Alas, someone with some taste!!! Gracias..
This dude was simultaneously a genius and a lunatic. Anybody who's tried to draw the melting clocks knows what I mean. Picasso had nothing on this beautiful madman. Also simon killed it in this video and scripting was fantastic. That ending too. I've never simultaneously had chills while getting triggered. Bravo biographics.
Isn't it odd how he and Van Gogh' both lived in the shadow of death from mothers who suffered from loss of there infants ..
Both crazy ladies too. As a woman I’d never do that.
"Still freasher than anything served at the Olive Garden" Awesome.
For years several of us would cook and consume a feast from the Dali cookbook on 11-May. Fancy Mushroom Puree was one of the staples.
His moustache aldo defied gravity
His moustache was named Aldo?
That Olive Garden quip was priceless! Love it.
Yay! Dali, my favorite crazy, I mean artistic, person! Thanks Simon.
Salvadors nap time was him holding a spoon between thumb, pointer and middle finger. As he nodded the weight of the spoon would be pulled by gravity and his hand becoming relaxed the spoon would fall, hit the floor and Dali would wake and get back at his tasking.
While I am not the most intuitive individual, I get a strong feeling that Salvador Dali is Simon's favorite artist. It's just a hunch, mind you.
No one really knows for sure what art is but apparently it's amazing.
Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, childhood in Cadaqués too. There is something very important. Those small towns are in a area where tramontane blowns even though extremely heavy. As their own inhabitats claim, that wind "touches" their heads. Original idioms: Tocats per la tramuntana (touched by the tramontane).
This was so interesting, Dali is my absolute favourite artist. His art makes me feel some type of way, like staring into the abyss of time but finding comfort it in. Idek how to describe it. My favourite painting of his is the Metamorphosis of Narcissus.
I've been at his house in Spain, a strange place....
I spent a week in Cadaques in 1973. Beautiful little town.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Portrait of the young artist as a Portrait artist
4:35 - Chapter 2 - The art of confidence
5:55 - Chapter 3 - The secret of good art is artistry
7:50 - Chapter 4 - Paranoia & friends
10:35 - Mid roll ads
12:25 - Chapter 5 - Time keeps on slippin'
15:50 - Chapter 6 - Dali & his muse
17:05 - Chapter 7 - Things get out of hand
18:30 - Chapter 8 - Image & artist
20:30 - Chapter 9 - Things get weirder
22:00 - Chapter 10 - Salvadore CK
24:10 - Chapter 11 - The clock melts down
Shows how genius Alfred Hitchcock was as a director. Dali and his works were true representations of a dream state.
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali is a book that exposes a lot of his bizarre behavior.
Dali was never a great guy, he would cheat collectors like Edward James, and he had at least two people painting his works for him by the 1970s. His weird sex romps were strange, but each to his own.
The saddest comment in the book was at his death, his long time house servants was not left a dime ...and said, "Senior Dali never loved anyone"...Quite a sad epitaph. For me his illustration skills were never as interesting as Picasso, Miro, and Man Ray. BTW, Man Ray needs a Simon Bio!
Imho most famous and genius types are rarely nice or gracious people.
Robert Giles: I agree - his artistic skills were not that evolved. In fact, the "Basket of Bread" is prosaically rendered, and highlights his lack of abilities in depth and texture. Dali is overrated, in no small part due to his preciously nurtured "eccentricities" ...proving the point that people will take one at their own worth. He was a self-made legend - as opposed to an organic legend that evolves on the strength of the subject, and not devised by the subject himself.
What a load of horse crap...
Dali’s later paintings like Virgin of Guadalupe, Hallucinogenic toreador, Rafealesqe head explosion, the ecumenical council, and Discovery of America by Columbus.
Are simply put... MASTERPIECES.
On par with the greatest artists in history.
Dali was EASILY the greatest painter of the last century.
Leaving his peers looking like children doodling in a coloring book.👍🤣
@@surlygirly1926 Hahaha sure...
@mae comeaux So informed means "biased" and good to know how unbiased YOU are. Just look at the pretty pictures then and don't worry about what I think. Knowing something about how the artist lived matters to some people.
As much as we think of Dali as a daring experimental surrealist artist. But, we need to respect his strengths in traditional style. I think he had the basic skills in a very strong way. And, from there he challenges us.
Most informative though that bit where he tosses an anteater around made me feel uncomfortable and sad.
I'm sure a handler was right off stage. He tossed it around, but they have wicked claws,and you don't want one latching on to you. That said,shouldn't have used it for a prop. A umbrella would have done. It's Dali... Everyone would have expected the umbrella to do something. It was a different time. That anteater is probably still alive.
robert caldwell a handler? It was his pet! He took it on walks around the city
A story with sexual assault but it's the anteater that makes you uncomfortable and sad.
@@--enyo-- well said,guess Trump has desensitized me ,regardless of the "Me Too" movement. For that,I apologize, I was focused on the statement, not the overall content of the peice. He was incredibly talented, but flawed,in a despicable way. Thanks for bringing me back to the most important part of the subject. Gives me more to consider, if I ever get to the museum. Peace !✌
That's why he lived back then, not now. SJWs would have his head on a platter right now.
I wrote a research paper on his metamorphosis of narcissus. The connection he felt between his life and that myth is really on display in the painting.
The video of him on a talk show throwing his pet anteater at people sums him up pretty well.
'His relationship with his father was rocky'- I see what you did there
Who hasn't been through a nuclear mysticism phase?
Underrated comment
George Orwell wrote an insightful essay on Dali. Fascinating art, hideous life.
Brilliant. One of your best, Simon. It's quite incredible how you maintain such a high level of passion for such a wide breadth of subjects; before Dali I watched your film on the Titanic and her sister liners. You never fail to impress.
In the top left corner. Dali is painted 3 different time. Move the picture to the top to see a picture of him and his mother. Flip the picture again. And the top left corner turns into his face looking down. And flip it how it was painted you can see the half top of his head... Dali painted in 2 forms. To a image and a 3 forms to a image.
Tried to bring my mum to the Dali museum in Florida but it was not very handicapped accessible. So disappointing but still worth a trip for those who can walk through it.
"he wasnt just being precious"
Who has time for editing when you're shitting out 15 videos across 12 channels per day?
Lord Vermintide probably the team of 15 whose soul job it is to edit these videos
but ur right i wouldnt wanna be doing that
I live in St. Petersburg, FL, home of the Dali museum. I go every 6 months or so, as art work gets moved around from other museums and private collections.
The man was a gifted surrealist, no mushrooms required.
I think I can enjoy having a 4 hour conversation with Simon. The way he talks and how he describes artists is what I find kind of mezmerizing.
He said, "if Dali ever remarked on the irony of dying in the building that birthed him as an artist, it wasn't recorded." How would he be able to remark on the irony if he was dead??? lmao
That painting is over 90 years old, and it's still fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden. Haha.
Jesus! Now I can never look at his art the same way again! I have several reprints... SOAB 🥺
I feel the same.
“That painting is over ninety years old and yet fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden❗️” 😂
I met a guy who apprenticed with him. He was really good. Not a genius like Dali. Dali was weird, but a genius.
At the end i imagine he would have said “it was fun”
Its what i would have said after looking through his works
"our boy Salvador" hahaha Love it
YAAAAAAAS. have not watch yet but I was waiting for this one.
Years ago I made up a pickup line that I used if she said she liked painting/art.
“I like my women like a Dali painting: provocative, interesting and usually nude”.
Throughout the years this has worked better than I could have ever imagined so feel free to steal it and see how it works for you.
When I saw The Persistence of Memory at the MOMA I was surprised at how small it was. (9 1/2 x 13") (24.1 x 33 cm)
Yet it grabs you from across the room, draws you over, and won't let go. It's almost unfair to the other paintings. He wasn't just weird; he was good at weird.
You won’t believe it today 1AM I was searching for a Biographics vid about Salvador Dalí and didn’t see it and today I went to see the channel and saw the Salvador Dalí 😱
I've been to Figueres. It's a ghastly, soulless place. Apart from the Dalí museum, it has nothing going for it. It's a one horse town in which said horse wandered off to somewhere else out of sheer boredum.
Epic moustache meets epic beard.
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The clocks aren't melting. They are SOFT, which takes on a whole new meaning.
Right!
Very well observed about his life, and well written (except that cheap Olive Garden shot, which has just become a very tired---dare I add, limp?---joke). This is an accomplishment since it covers so much territory in such short order. I visited Dali's house in 1998. It didn't look like it'd been changed in any way since I first saw pictures of it in 1968!---not one stone, candle-holder or pillow appeared to have been moved after all those years. I assume the earlier pictures likely were used to put everything back in exact places to match those earlier photographs once Dali had passed away.
I think the Italian director Fellini was influenced by him. I could be wrong and often am! He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock in the film Spellbound. From memory it was the dream sequence.
Edit: I should watch the entire video before commenting!
Excellent! You painted a better portrait of Dali than Dali did!
I am not strange. I am just not normal.- Dali
I have been to the Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain. Probably the most amazing art museum I have ever been to, and I’ve been to a few! There is also a small museum with his works of art in jewelry. I had never heard of them before seeing them in person and was stunned by them.
“If Dali ever remarked upon the irony of dying in the place that launched him as an artist.” Haha. That would have been quite something.
Wishlist (Spain):
El Cid
Alfonso the Battler
Roger de Lauria
Isabella I
Ferdinand II
Joanna the Mad
Carlos I
Philip II
Juan de Austria
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Watch the guest appearance of Dali on "What's My Line" here on RUclips. It's enlightening.
FINALLY! I’ve been waiting on this one forever!
Dali is my favorite artist. Not personality but his paintings. So happy you are doing him on your you tube channel !
He was so mean to that anteater bro. He basically threw it on the ground and slammed on table. Bro he had white beards moustache from one piece. Bruh
Finally someone interesting
I love Dali. He was my favorite artist when I was in high school. He has such an interesting story also.
@Mantorras Montquilla i just made a similar remark
This is one of the most funniest stories you've presented. 👏👏👏👏
Kind of wish i hadn't watched this now. I always loved his art in Highschool but never looked into his life past that.
The painting of the bread so good....it would be a shame if someone ate it!
When you are so used to watching Business Blaze that you feel let down when there is no "Buh-Duh-Duh-Duh" after a joke or pun.
Hi Simon, can you please do a biographic of Gustav Klimt. I am such a fan of his work.
He once sent a telegram to Nicolae Ceausescu after the latter named himself president of Romania (and awarded himself a king-sized sceptre), congratulating him on "introducing the presidential sceptre."