2023-06-23 20:36:36
Salvador Dalí loved to provoke. In the blink of an eye, he was dropped from the heaven of genius to the hell of idiocy.
It was one of his favorite games: to say, for example, that women have no capacity for artistic creation, but are gifted for the art of governing. For this reason, he reasoned, History records marvelous queens, but no truly great artist. Or say that she admired Francisco Franco and Hitler.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) had an extravagant life, marked by contradictions.
Through nonsense (his main and undeniable virtue), he became the king of the jungle of contradiction and ambiguity. Through exhibitionism (his constant passion of his), he managed to be on everyone’s lips. He enjoyed the scandals he caused like crazy.
the mustachioed fascist
Decrepit, one step away from its end, in September 1975 Franco ordered the execution of five suspected ETA terrorists. Days later, when a news agency asked him for an opinion, Dalí declared that the Spanish dictator was a wonderful person and added that it was necessary to triple such measures.
With Hitler I experienced a greater fascination. He depicted him in at least three known works: The Riddle of Hitler (1939), Hitler in a Moonlit Landscape with Accompaniment (1958), and Hitler Masturbating (1973). He was excited, according to his own words, with the flesh of the Führer. His obsession, he said, was apolitical and had to be understood in terms of sexual fetish.
“The enigma of Hitler”, work of Salvador Dalí
“I was fascinated by Hitler’s soft plump hips always so well tucked into his uniform,” he wrote.
He also declared: “Every time I began to paint the leather strap that, starting from his waist, passed to the opposite shoulder, the softness of that Hitlerian flesh compressed under the military jacket aroused in me such a state of gustatory, milky, nutritious and nutritious ecstasy. Wagnerian that made my heart beat violently.
But he was not stupid, and he clarified: “I could not be a Nazi, because if Hitler conquered Europe, he would take the opportunity to send all the hysterics of my species to the other world, as he had already done in Germany, calling them degenerates.”
All this happened a long time ago, it is documented in Dalí’s books such as Unspeakable Confessions and in his autobiography with the Maradona title Diary of a Genius, plus a dozen biographies, but it seems that they have just discovered it.
On the TikTok social network, the fuse was lit with videos that recall that the Spanish painter was fascist and sexist. The animalistic theme is added to the denunciations of the monster from Dalí atomic, a famous photograph for which three cats were used that were thrown into the air, while the painter jumped. They had to repeat the procedure 28 times until the photographer Philippe Halsman considered the shot successful.
The Spanish painter was a trend on TikTok.
Everything in Dalí seems, after all, ready for overacting. Even his fascist adherences, the cursed part of him, to which is now added the summum malum of mistreating animals, are part of the great staging that was his life. His extravagances haunt him even postmortem.
If it were the character of a gruesome, masochistic, sadistic and necrophilic novel, it is obvious that a good “sensitivity reader” would not let it pass. Or he would try to endow the character with good feelings.
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