Video: 11 eccentric photographs of surrealist genius Salvador Dali with animals
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Salvador Dali is one of the most famous representatives of surrealism. But not many people know that he is the first person who started an anteater as a pet, and went to social events with an ocelot, shocking the respectable audience. We have collected 11 rare photographs in which Dali was captured not with famous people and not with nude models, but with animals. Each photo is as extraordinary as the genius of surra.
Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacint Dali and Domenech, the Marquis de Pubol said that he realized himself a genius at the age of 29 and since that time has never doubted it. But at the same time, Dali argued that he himself would not have bought any of his paintings. Nevertheless, today both the paintings he painted and his photos are real rarities.
Salvador Dali sometimes appeared in public in a leopard-print coat and accompanied by an ocelot - a wild cat that looks like a leopard. In the photo with Dali, an ocelot named Babu, owned by his manager John Peter Moore. Perhaps it is thanks to Babu that there are so many feline motives in Dali's work.
However, Dali gladly posed for photographers and with other animals.
The eccentric artist's pet was an immodest size anteater. Dali often walked his unusual friend along the Parisian streets on a gold leash, and sometimes took him with him to social events.
The photograph of Dali, taken by the founder of surre in photography, Philip Halsman, and named "Atomic Dali", cannot be blamed for humanism. If only because in order to take a photo, cats had to be thrown 28 times. Not a single cat was hurt, but Dali himself jumped, probably for several years in advance.
In this photo, Salvador Dali and his wife Gala pose with a stuffed lamb.
For all his eccentricity, Salvador Dali in his work also addressed the topic of religion. In 1967, with the blessing of the Pope, the Biblia Sacra with illustrations by Dali was released. The Pope was the first to receive a gift of Scripture bound in white leather and gold, decorated by the great surrealist.
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