tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post4222807999531230474..comments2024-03-29T05:01:52.320-05:00Comments on Althouse: What could be more surrealistic than exhuming the surrealist?Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-58948412558616050982019-09-24T14:02:58.171-05:002019-09-24T14:02:58.171-05:00That's a snake? It just looks like a bracelet....That's a snake? It just looks like a bracelet.<br /><br />I noticed her face first, which is honestly quite striking. Then I noticed she had her boob out, and then clicked the "more" link. <br /><br />Most of Dali's artwork just makes me think he needed psychiatric help, so this piece is a nice change of pace. Dave in Tucsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591277562652290966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2988616457580600522017-07-22T19:02:45.619-05:002017-07-22T19:02:45.619-05:00" I actually believe it is possible to be a g..." I actually believe it is possible to be a great tarot card reader. And I say that without any belief in anything supernatural in it."<br /><br />I can think of two approaches:<br /><br />A therapist and encourager with occult window dressings.<br /><br />Or...<br /><br />A storyteller with occult window dressings.<br /><br />Are there more?Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49925408233862900142017-07-22T00:34:16.747-05:002017-07-22T00:34:16.747-05:00There's so much in this post -- so many things...There's so much in this post -- so many things to comment on.<br /><br />But I'll just say: Doesn't Spain have statutes of limitations?!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14495901549894839152017-07-21T22:28:09.013-05:002017-07-21T22:28:09.013-05:00But thanks for the link to the Dali cards. I have ...But thanks for the link to the Dali cards. I have enjoyed the design of tarot cards, own several decks, used to draw my own cards, and have thought of an alternative life path of being a tarcard reader. I actually believe it is possible to be a great tarot card reader. And I say that without any belief in anything supernatural in it.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-36978815359883037502017-07-21T22:24:40.983-05:002017-07-21T22:24:40.983-05:00Tarot card illustrator is different from a tarot c...Tarot card illustrator is different from a tarot card reader, ie, a fortune teller.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-47793142675656686022017-07-21T21:13:52.761-05:002017-07-21T21:13:52.761-05:00Dr. Althouse: If Pilar Abel was lucky enough to co...Dr. Althouse: <i>If Pilar Abel was lucky enough to come into this world with half of her genetic gift from a great artist, why is she only a tarot card reader? Or is it possible to be a great artist within the arcane field of tarot-card reading?</i><br /><br />Ask, and ye shall <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dali-Universal-Tarot-Deck-Salvador/dp/0880790903/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1500689361&sr=8-3&keywords=salvador+dali+tarot" rel="nofollow">receive</a>. Dali's tarot is every bit as evocative, and cryptic, as you would expect. By comparison, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thoth-Tarot-Deck-Aleister-Crowley/dp/1572815108/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500689478&sr=1-1&keywords=thoth+tarot" rel="nofollow">Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck</a> is downright pedestrian, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Original-Rider-Waite-Tarot-Pack/dp/0880796863/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500689554&sr=1-1&keywords=arthur+edward+wait+tarot" rel="nofollow">Arthur Edward Waite's</a>—the one everyone knows—is boring.Paul Snivelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08176093036690144698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33683956813283204512017-07-21T14:18:01.953-05:002017-07-21T14:18:01.953-05:00LimperLimpermcculloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03168402889404727565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74616004354299645252017-07-21T14:17:37.990-05:002017-07-21T14:17:37.990-05:00Looks like Nurse Ratched breast feeding an imagina...Looks like Nurse Ratched breast feeding an imaginary baby. The snake symbolizes the weakness of temptation. It's lumper than Dali's dickmcculloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03168402889404727565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-6436224048075580622017-07-21T13:51:00.153-05:002017-07-21T13:51:00.153-05:00"Orwell wasn't a prude."
Orwell was..."Orwell wasn't a prude."<br /><br />Orwell was not a prude in the way that a bourgeois Englishman (or American) is not a prude.<br />But he was not a non-prude in the way a Spaniard (or a Chinese or a Burman) is a non-prude.buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-5930394049752373552017-07-21T13:50:55.347-05:002017-07-21T13:50:55.347-05:00I think the past subjunctive tense corresponds to ...I think the past subjunctive tense corresponds to Dali's melting clocks. Dali paints the subjunctive past........More than any other people in Europe, the history of the Spaniards is surreal. So many strange events. Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-641622013663810492017-07-21T13:35:01.503-05:002017-07-21T13:35:01.503-05:00"If you're a man, and you're repelled..."If you're a man, and you're repelled by man-hands, masturbation might not be for you."<br /><br />Driving robot demand.Freeman Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202310075717963694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19181282174834837122017-07-21T12:53:55.373-05:002017-07-21T12:53:55.373-05:00"Mr. Blair was both easily shocked and not qu..."Mr. Blair was both easily shocked and not quick on the cultural uptake...."<br /><br />Orwell wasn't a prude. He was friendly with Henry Miller and admired his writing. His problem with Miller was not with his obscenity or scatology, but that Miller was apolitical.YuriGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15655908443514454776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66940916618760291202017-07-21T12:36:33.334-05:002017-07-21T12:36:33.334-05:00The fellow with the knife stuck in his head is the...The fellow with the knife stuck in his head is the Dominican Inquisitor St. Peter of Verona.<br /><br />https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Lorenzo_Lotto_-_Madonna_and_Child_with_St_Peter_Martyr_-_WGA13648.jpg<br /><br />Quite a popular subject actually. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25268100667695038582017-07-21T12:27:37.722-05:002017-07-21T12:27:37.722-05:00Orwell's particular problem, well one of them,...Orwell's particular problem, well one of them, is unfamiliarity with Dali's cultural context.<br /><br />Mr. Blair was both easily shocked and not quick on the cultural uptake, as can be seen in some of his other works, especially I think "Burmese Days". He was not a man to go with the flow. <br /><br />As I said above, Dali was profoundly Catalan. These people have a, well, appreciation for scatology. Among other things, they like to stick this sort of thing in nativity scenes.<br /><br />http://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzLzViYThkZjFhNDIzODBmNWNjMzEyMDk3YTc1YjBmMDhmZDczYzE4ZGQuanBnIl0sWyJwIiwidGh1bWIiLCJ4MzkwPiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0/5ba8df1a42380f5cc312097a75b0f08fd73c18dd.jpg<br /><br />Still extremely popular. <br /><br />And as for necrophilia and graphic suffering - Dali was also very Spanish, and Catholic- this interest in upsetting matters is probably, in large part, a reflection of Catholic imagery and practice. <br /><br />If you come from this culture you can't avoid the bleeding, dying Christ, the dead Christ, all bled out, the often very graphically tortured saints. At Manila's San Agustin museum (or Catholic art, imagery, religious paraphernalia, and Agustinian history; if you are ever in Manila, go) there is one saints image, in a huge collection of traditional wooden images taken from churches across the islands, being all serene with a bolo very firmly stuck in his skull; I can see Dali doing this, vastly better executed of course. Just one of many similar things that I recall. This was moreover folk art. That's where their minds were. <br /><br />And then there are the skulls and bones, which are near-ubiquitous. Granted this stuff is much less prevalent NOW, in the watered down modern church that often might as well be Episcopalian. But the old church was hardcore on the subject of death, and none more so than the Spanish church. <br /><br />And furthermore, on the casual attitude to death, to slaughter and to cruelty, this is the Spanish peasant, and Dali was a countryman. I still remember an incident, something I still remember very clearly from when I was a very small lad, in our Basque village. The older boys had trapped an old stray dog. They happily stoned it to death. Dead donkeys would not have fazed them. <br /><br />I don't think Orwell, the English bourgeois, quite got all that. buwayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388691837737324814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-89144425205549852992017-07-21T12:20:32.565-05:002017-07-21T12:20:32.565-05:00"If Pilar Abel was lucky enough to come into ..."If Pilar Abel was lucky enough to come into this world with half of her genetic gift from a great artist, why is she only a tarot card reader?"<br /><br />Deviation towards the mean. It isn't uncommon for extraordinary people to have more ordinary offspring. Geoff Matthewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07335872605196107867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26235561961903558192017-07-21T11:53:26.623-05:002017-07-21T11:53:26.623-05:00I noticed the grimace first, the red mouth and str...I noticed the grimace first, the red mouth and strength of the jaw. Very masculine imo, and even the hairstyle is rather masculine. Then I noticed the form and softness of the breast being offered. Then I saw the large strong hands but I wouldn't call them man hands. She doesn't appear as masculine in the <a href="https://szeifertjudit.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/salvador-dalc3ad-and-gala-1930.jpg" rel="nofollow">photos</a> of her, so I'd say Dali was revealing her personality. In contrast, in the paintings where Gala appears as a model Dali emphasizes her femininity, as the Madonna and so forth. More than being a "muse" and model, she really was his business manager and responsible for his financial success. <br /><br />Want more surrealistic? How about cloning his DNA?<br />Rosalyn C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05868527120018363058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45150658342270903772017-07-21T11:53:22.759-05:002017-07-21T11:53:22.759-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.FullMoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07541560904252155570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-42371320250271870192017-07-21T11:51:26.229-05:002017-07-21T11:51:26.229-05:00There seems to be no connection between artistic t...<i>There seems to be no connection between artistic talent and decency let alone wisdom. </i><br /><br />If anything an inverse relationship, as hundreds of years of artists and composers will attest, not to mention Frank Sinatra.Earnest Prolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784404737843553158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-44289511630460404902017-07-21T11:18:26.147-05:002017-07-21T11:18:26.147-05:00"As George Orwell said, Dali was a good draug..."As George Orwell said, Dali was a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being"<br /><br />That applies to a lot of artists and writers. There seems to be no connection between artistic talent and decency let alone wisdom. rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-22479380226241169872017-07-21T11:16:49.760-05:002017-07-21T11:16:49.760-05:00Looks like Dali exaggerated the size of the hands,...Looks like Dali exaggerated the size of the hands, to exaggerate the size of the snake.rcoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17102201338319611538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91540922236784054622017-07-21T11:14:27.370-05:002017-07-21T11:14:27.370-05:00If you're a man, and you're repelled by ma...If you're a man, and you're repelled by man-hands, masturbation might not be for you.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19345441761415885252017-07-21T10:57:24.803-05:002017-07-21T10:57:24.803-05:00This is another reason where cremation would have ...This is another reason where cremation would have put an end to this ambulance chasing lawyer madness.<br /><br />Redistribution of wealth, is the new Gold Rush. Sue the man who had sex with your mother, even if it was 50 years ago.<br /><br />Don't bury Gold in the ground - bury ashes.<br />Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-25585200298404794172017-07-21T10:53:10.367-05:002017-07-21T10:53:10.367-05:00Gala got it goin’ on: My Wife, Nude, Contemplating...Gala got it goin’ on: <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/my-wife-nude-contemplating-her-own-flesh-becoming-stairs-three-vertebrae-of-a-column-sky-and" rel="nofollow">My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture</a>Earnest Prolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07784404737843553158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82272152306143464252017-07-21T10:42:16.560-05:002017-07-21T10:42:16.560-05:00Excuse me, but it appears to me that she has a 2:4...Excuse me, but it appears to me that she has a 2:4 digit issue on that hand. Was she gay? The index finger seems significantly longer than her ring finger? A faux-lesbian relationship with Dali may be his ideal M:F romantic relationship. Especially if she was butch. Did Dali cross dress or cavort as a trans? NTTIAWWT. Cue the KINKS and Lola.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03610504033488145668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78304998506865991082017-07-21T10:26:31.140-05:002017-07-21T10:26:31.140-05:00As George Orwell said, Dali was a good draughtsman...As George Orwell said, Dali was a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being.YuriGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15655908443514454776noreply@blogger.com