re: #82 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have you seen this? It’s a Disney/Dali short film. It’s weird, I could always see that Dali is obviously really good at what he does and very unique, but somehow his paintings never engaged me. And then I saw this very kitschy little clip, and it really worked for me, I suddenly saw all the pathos and the romanticism of the desert and the figures dissolving into other figures, and since then, whenever I see one in a museum, I somehow connect. It’s like once I got one emotion embedded in it, the others became visible as well.

Which is obviously not to say that this works for others, or that others might not get something completely different out of Dali!

Youtube Video

I’ve often found that having certain sensational or emotional experiences, or really understanding a concept for the first time can lead to me suddenly “getting” a certain genre, or artist, or work of art, (when previously I could have recited why it was important, but it did nothing for me) and when that happens with an artist as prolific and obviously skilled as Dali, that’s such an enrichment of my life.