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Sharou's Blog as a Globe Trotter

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dalí vs. Huevón?

Wondering why in most Dalí’s work he substituted human heads with eggs, would it be because he thought that everyone is ‘huevón’? Or more so he was inspired by a local Catalan saying ‘he has a bulb in his head’, which refers to someone who has a mental illness/complex. So the eccentric artist thought everybody else was a cuckoo?

Shame! It is actually the first museum I have ever been since I arrived in Barcelona and it’s not even located in Barcelona. Took a trip to Teatre Museu Dalí in Figueres to soak myself with some ‘arts and culture’ and balance off my Karma. Though there weren’t any ‘famous’ paintings of Dalí, it was nice to see ‘the package’ of the artist and observed his progression over the years. Also the infamous Mae West room, which was an installation of Dalí’s own poster ‘Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment’(1935). [One stands in front of a reducing lens and aligns the pouting red lips, in the form of a sofa, with the nose — a pink chimney with logs — and eyes — two grey paintings of views of Paris — to turn the sculptural montage into the actress’s face.] Apart from that, particularly impressed by his Soft Self Portrait, which says a lot about this peculiar artist.

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