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Originally Posted by SaintElGrouch
I've got a couple Dali prints also. I'd have to say that i'm partial to Escher however.
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Escher isn't an artist. More like an Illustrator.
Basically, It's the same reason that Dali and Norman Rockwell aren't artists. They may technically be proficient and clever with their ideas, but there is no real emotion or truth behind their paintings.
The Surrealists had but one law: the purpose of surrealism was to create outrage and shock in the minds of the bourgeousie. No atrocity, not enven child rape could get you kicked out of the group. The only thing that could get you kicked out was to back down and apologize, to lose face.
In the late thirties, Dali and Gala, who had fled to America went to Peggy Guggenheim's costume party in New York. They went with Dali dressed as Bruno Hauptman and Gala dressed as the Lindbergh baby complete with bloody noose around her neck. A great scandal ensued, so great they were threatened with deportation back to Europe, where Dali would have been in danger as a decadent artist.
They backed down. The apologized. They were kicked out of the Surrealists. After that Dali, under the direction of Gala quickly turned to the pursuit of big American collector's cheques in the Peggy Guggenheim circle.