Salvador Dali
"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
Dali museum entrance
From a travel blog taken at the Dali Museum, Figueras.
www.travelswithsheila.com/Day%209%20dali%20ca..
I went to Figueras, Spain
I went to Figueras several years ago now and still remember it vividly. Dali's museum (designed by himself) is a Spanish civil-war castle with a glass dome on the top (reminiscent of a biosphere a la Kew Gardens or the Eden project). You go in and see a Cadillac which you can put a euro or two in for artificial rain to pour down from the car roof. Other highlights include some of his best work and a stairway with a viewpoint which realises the idea of the room appearing as Mae West.
I didn't get time to see the theatre, but the exhibition was much better than any other exhibitions I have seen in either Spain or England. The Barcelona museum is a little drab compared to the exhibition at his hometown of Figueras.
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). This group is for people who love his art.
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