Dali

Went to visit Dali. Very inspirational.

The life of an artist intrigued me. After every milestone, good or bad, a painting is usually produced. So when you look back at the last five years, you can literally travel back and see your progression, in a series of still frame visual representation, captured, full of passion and emotion. How beautiful!

Highlights / Things that stuck in my head / My thoughts
- Lobster phone - Dali was intrigued that behind such a hard casing of a lobster shell was soft delicate flesh. Dali represented this as a lobster phone - a hard telephonic ear/mouth piece, capturing people's soft and delicate words.
- Galatea of the Spheres - beautiful painting of his wife, inspired by the nuclear physics of world world II
- The famous Persistence of time and The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory
- Dali compared Jackson Pollock's (million dollar) work to indigestion
- Dali sort to be one of the greats to move art into the next century. He even moved to Paris and befriended Picasso.
- Dali designed the original Chupa Chups logo in 1969
- Dali didn't care about what other people thought. In fact, you have to step out of the real-world or conscious realm to truely admire his work
- Para-phrased Voltaire quote - "To care what people think is to give them your power"
- Dali crafted his moustache based on the integral (calculus) symbol