Dali has a painting called Hitler Masturbating. Dali was sexually attracted to Hitler. Dali wrote:
I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me… There was no reason for me to stop telling one and all that to me Hitler embodied the perfect image of the great masochist who would unleash a world war solely for the pleasure of losing and burying himself beneath the rubble of an empire; the gratuitous action par excellence that should indeed have warranted the admiration of the Surrealists.
POV - you’re a normal person: Hitler
POV - you’re Salvador Dali: :bottom-speak:
"You have to separate art from the artist"
But professor, Salvador Dali just made rule 63 Hitler with thighs bigger than that one Steven Universe character.
Hitler embodied the perfect image of the great masochist who would unleash a world war solely for the pleasure of losing and burying himself beneath the rubble of an empire
And this is attractive how?
lmao I thought at first you were referring to the AI art bot but this is real holy shit.
Just like the Futurists, he made art for a society that would have it that none of his art existed and he was placed upon a pike (well if he was poor, the rich and well connected can do what they like, which is TRUE freedom or something, guy was an anarchist and a monarchist aka an an-cap before his time).
I think Dali came to fascism later in life, but earlier he was in a communist group. I always wondered if it was a truly natural progression or just a consequence of wanting to stay in Spain under Franco and letting justifications become ideology.
Edit: looking this up, he stopped being a hardcore communist with the slow rise of fascism and after Franco consolidated power became a frothing at the mouth pro-catholic fascist. Seems like a day or do anything to benefit from power type deal, which I somehow find worse than true belief.
BMF post on how this is obviously anti-communist incoming.
conveniently in art classes him being a fascist is never mentioned
Copypasted from dalipaintings.com:-
Dali's depiction of Lenin in this work seriously offended the other Surrealists when it was shown in 1934 at the Salon des Independants in Paris. Given their Marxist convictions, it is not difficult to see why a group of Surrealists even tried to damage it at the exhibition: fortunately, according to Dali, they were unable to reach it. The painting represents Lenin stripped from the waist downwards with an enormous bare buttock, which Dali described as 'shaped like a breakfast roll with its end held up by a forked crutch'. The irreverence of this image is aggravated by Dali's additional statement that the 'buttock, of course, was the symbol of the Revolution of October 1917.' The motif of the soft watch, first developed in The Persistence of Memory, reappears on a marble plinth; its limpness is visibly reflected in the enormous peak of Dali's cap, which, like Lenin's buttock, also requires artificial support. Why Lenin should have been selected for such unenviable treatment is not entirely clear, nor is it meant to be. However, the meaning of the painting is suggested by the title inscribed on the plinth: Lenin is identified with William Tell, who, according to Dali, represented the oppressive father-figure against whom Dali was himself rebelling at that time.
represented the oppressive father-figure against whom Dali was himself rebelling at that time
:peterson-pill-dinner:
Lenin
Lenin walks around the world.
Frontiers cannot bar him.
Neither barracks nor barricades impede.
Nor does barbed wire scar him.
Lenin walks around the world.
Black, brown, and white receive him.
Language is no barrier.
The strangest tongues believe him.
Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.
-Langston Hughes
look at how anime is destroying the beauty standards of the poor innocent youth :liberty-weeping:
He was a fascist
I guess it's better to know but I didn't expect to learn this from a shitpost about Lenin's cake
