On the one hand, I want to say none of those people deserved that (well… with one exception) - but on the other I can clearly identify each one and he did indeed hit on something deeper about their likeness. So I can’t be too harsh on his art in that respect.
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Thanx for that! Dug. His birthday’s tomorrow and I’ll rotate it into my webpage.
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Nice collection of Dali’s artwork here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/16rgqt/1029_paintings_by_salvador_dali_19101983/
SIR, NO, SIR.
I didn’t even bother to scroll down to see if somebody else is on the barricades as well. You might like or dislike his art, and his character might be shit, but this is not an aardvark! [ _ETA: @Tribune, thanks for being quicker than me. Appreciated. To paraphrase: C’est-ci ne pas un Orycterope. _ ]
This is:
Why this matters in this case, you might ask? We’ll, besides a lot of other things, aardvarks never harmed anyone! The giant anteater pictured, however…
Fun fact - closest living relatives to aardvarks include those guys:
And, of course:
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Never. Hurt. Anyone!
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Just FTR, in Germany, Körperschaften des Öffentlichen Rechts, including the churches, the professional body of doctors, but also sports organisations are granted their own legislation and jurisdiction to a certain extent. Which lead, in the worst cases, to cover-ups of sexual misconduct and sexual violence against children.
Since I’ve been to the Palau Finestres and have seen how Picasso drew and painted as a 13-year-old, this probably is one of his funniest quotes to me.
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the actual picasso quote @Mister44 is probably thinking of is probably this one–
“it took me four years to paint like raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
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I like this little story illustrating his control and awareness, from artists hanging out in his studio:
They were, like, commenting, and they used the words “chance operations” — which was no bother to me because I was hearing it regularly from John Cage — and the power and the wonder of it and so forth. This really angered Pollock very deeply and he said, “Don’t give me any of your ‘chance operations.’” He said, “You see that doorknob?” and there was a doorknob about fifty feet from where he was sitting that was, in fact, the door that everyone was going to have to exit. Drunk as he was, he just with one swirl of his brush picked up a glob of paint, hurled it, and hit that doorknob smack-on with very little paint over the edges. And then he said, “And that’s the way out.”
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that’s time theft, tovarisch!
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Yeah, this is my thought as well. Not overly interested in defending him but the epigraph to his novel was “Larvatus prodeo” or “I advance masked.” [Taken from Descartes, btw.] Point being: he was putting on a show.
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