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Salvador Dali

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"Visionary, artist, propagandist, magician. Salvador Dali is the greatest personal influence in my art."
- Ken Segal

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Arguably the most revolutionary artist of the 20th Century, Salvador Dali softened hard objects, solidified oceans, illuminated dark spirits, villified women, idolized Hitler, made the commonplace seem obscene and the obscene commonplace. He was able with a wave of his brush - yielded like a caduceus of Mercury - to render the viewer temporarily insane. The depth of Dali's personal iconography was astounding. Even when he turned to traditional images and themes (often repeated, like Milet's "Angelus," with obsessive regularity)... he would offer a new, psychotic warp.

Dali was a dabbler. He called his greatest supporters and fans "fools and cuckolds." He was fond of the grand gesture, especially if it were unique and ridiculous. And he never stopped experimenting, to the very last painting he ever painted.

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His most famous image, "Persistence of Memory" (or as it came to be known, "Melting Watches") is embeded in the public consciousness. Many of the innovations he brought to jewelry, fashion, theatre and public drama have produced revolutions in and of themselves. Dali was a strange burp in the fabric of Spacetime.

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