Faith and art...and Dali

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Since I am a mandolin player, this is my favorite Dali:

“Portrait of Juan de Pareja Fixing a String on His Mandolin.” It is not just the title. It just resonates with me. I also love the story of Juan de Pareja. He was a slave, taken in by the great Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Velázquez freed him and made him his assistant. He went on to become a renowned painter in his own right.
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Love this one on Daniel, too:
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This one always haunted me after seeing the exhibition of his sketches based on various themes and books and I’ve seen it twice. This drawing felt like talking to me - “what are you running from, Alice?”
 
From his Romeo and Juliet illustrations.

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From what I read about the drawing, the interpretation is - “Alice and evidence”. I see this as Alice in her dreams and the evidence of Alice’s life. The blue fallen girl is probably Alice while the one holding her is evidence/reality - defeating Alice but also comforting her. In the interaction between the two there is God. Without God waking up from a cherished dream is cruel, painful, depressing. But with Him even disillusion is bearable.
 
Dali? Aside from his religious art - really?

“Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.” Salvador Dali

Sounds like an anarchist.
 
Sounds like something Dali would say. His ego was nearly as grand as his talent. But I wouldn’t take such a flamboyant statement seriously, not at all. I think he quite enjoyed the benefits of capitalism.
 
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That’s a fascinating interpretation, Mary. Can’t take his images too literally. Though I fancy blood dripping down the walls of Verona in the R+J painting.
 
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Yes, I read something about that. Politics. Don’t really know that one can be “kicked out” of an artistic movement, though. 😁
Either way, didn’t seem to hamper his career. Or his talent. Most of his Catholic Christian work was produced later, in his artistic maturity.
 
In the art world, offending your group by not following proper form is well, bad.
 
Maybe then the message for me? Now I feel lonely …but in a new way. His depictions of the Cross are haunting to say the least. Yes… blood dripping on the floor… Wasted? Or not??
 
Proper form and Surrealism. Sort of like proper form and stream of consciousness writing, I reckon.
 
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I saw some Dali art published in a magazine from the 1950s. Nothing to write home about.
 
Perfectly fine not to like his work. There are many artists to choose from.😁
 
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