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Originally Posted by ShellyCrash
We have a huge Dali museum here in St. Pete. It's pretty wild to visit. Most of his work that you see in huge prints sold as office art are in reality almost minute, and then some of his works that you would expect to be smaller scale are floor to ceiling, so large even if you can't stand back and appreciate the big picture you can at least be amazed by the skill it would take to create something on such a grand scale.
Dali fell apart in the later years as well, but with him even to the end I always got the impression he was trying to do something that would be viewed as new, unlike Picasso and Warhol who began to create purely for profit, knowing people would pay as long as they signed their name. Alot of Andy's work he didn't even make himself... but I digress.
Returning to Dali, even though it wasn't one of his shining moments, I've always been amused by lobster phone:
I'm impressed someone got this shot. You can tell they snuck it with the flash off. Last time I went they noticed my camera bag and it was if I had my own security detail.  |
In his later years even Dali's primary motivation became profit.
Anything from the 70's onward was pretty dull. I can't even say i was a fan of much of what he did from the mid 50s through the 60's. the bulk of his best work took place in the 30's/40's. Some would argue this and say he was expanding his range and trying new things, I tend to think he was just going a more commercial route as his name became more valuable.