Disney cartoon of Salvador Dali

Disney asked Dalí to draw a cartoon, which would be the embodiment of the idea of surrealism, but having been so unusually ordinary viewer, that closed the show and not scooped right up to 2003. Film duration of any incomplete 7 minutes can not be found in less important needs and that its complete form. This - the best option. And I want to note that while the uniformity of muslin ladies Disney heroine here has turned well before the great, that is breathtaking. Collaboration with Dali Walt Disney Studios began in 1940 with the animated film "Fantasia» (Fantasia). In 1946, Salvador Dali and Walt Disney signed a deal to create a surreal cartoon Destino (Destiny) explanation of the Mexican ballad Armando Dominguez. Because of the conflicts and problems finanasovyh he was never completed. In 2003 he was re-designed by and storyboards, which were kept in the archives of Roy Disney.
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Salvador Dali - A Soft Self Portrait

Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration behind many of his avant-garde creations. Set in Dali's hometown of Lligat, Spain, the artist himself takes the viewer on a tour of the creative process that is behind his remarkable body of work. Journey into the subconscious of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and take a look at the world through Salvador Dali's eyes with this program that he both designed and performed. The documentary is directed by Jean-Christopher Averty, with narration provided by Orson Welles. LINK: Youtube

The Thief Who Stole A Dali Then Sent It Back

A brazen art thief recently stole Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio by Salvador Dali, valued at over $150k, from the Venus Over Manhattan Gallery in New York by distracting the guard and walking out with the piece in broad daylight. Then he sent it back. The gallery put the word out about the thief, but didn’t expect to get the work back, until they received an anonymous email saying it had been sent back, and it was delivered to the gallery later that week via Express Mail. Why would someone do such a thing? Your guess is as good as mine…
LINK, Via: Neatorama

21 Cats Imitating Art

Salvador Dali, "Woman At The Window" (1925) LINK: BuzzFeed

Salvador Dali - his home in Portlligat

To be known for his surrealistic paintings and art. His house, which he partly constructed and planned himself, is a most practical and surprisingly well organized villa, placed in a small hill ending at the shore of the Mediterranian Sea. Beatifully situated in a most attractive marine landscape. Carefully planned rooms and a most inviting garden, overlooking the sea, with a grand swimmingpool. In- and outside with loads of pieces of his art, surralistic as naturalistic. A place well worth to visit - only app. 1 hr. from Figueres. Remember to book in advance as only 8 people is admitted pr. slot. Along Costa Brava, Spain not far from the French Border and his museum in Figueres you will find Salvador Dali's home at the seashore of Portlligat outside the small Spanish/Catalan town Cadaqués. LINK: Arbyn's Cloud Mind, Via: Youtube

New Salvador Dali Museum Opens in St. Petersburg, Florida

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida has moved to a new location in a beautiful new Salvador Dali inspired building designed by HOK. The new museum is 68,000 square-feet and contains the largest collection of Salvador Dali artwork in the world. Check out more photos of the museum on designboom. LINK, Via: designboom

Salvador Dalí Photo

It can be discouraging to hear about a major painting selling into a private collection, knowing it will rarely be seen. However it is something to rejoice over when a major painting sells to a museum and can be seen by the public.
The 1934 painting ‘Enigmatic Elements in the Landscape,’ the surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí was sold to the Gala-Salvador Foundation for $11,000,000 US.
“This is a prodigy of a painting, immaculate, intense and just a very good painting. It’s simply marvelous,” the director of Antoni Pitxot said.
It was last exhibited in 1999 in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. I suggest you get to the Salvador Dali Museum in FIgueras to see it and many other great work by the Maestro.

Salvador Dali Art Gallery

Tribute to Dali, Escher & Pink Floyd

Tribute to Dali, Escher & Pink Floyd with the song: The Great gig in the Sky. LINK: Youtube

Pink Floyd-Salvador Dali

Song "Division Bell" by Pink Floyd. LINK: Youtube

Gala y Salvador Dalí

(Dedicated to Gala and Salvador Dalí). LINK: Youtube

Racalmuto-Dough for the dodo/The penguin

1948 WB cartoon film "Dough for the dodo" with Raymond Scott´s The penguin performed by the spanish band Racalmuto. LINK: Youtube

In this video there is artwork like that of Salvador Dali. Well worth the watch.

Salvador Dali

This is a sequel to the original film "Soft portrait of Salvador Dali" LINK: Youtube
"Part 2"


Some strange ways of Salvador Sali. LINK: Youtube

Ray Brandes: "When Dali Drew a Portrait of Picasso"

A music video for the unreleased Ray Brandes song "When Dali Drew a Portrait of Picasso," written by Gary Ra'Chac and Ray Brandes, and featuring scenes of Salvador Dali, Destino and Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. LINK: Youtube

Gala y Salvador Dalí

Mecano - Una rosa es una rosa (dedicated to Gala and Salvador Dalí). LINK: Youtube

The Divine Dali Drama

"The Reincarnated Salvador Dali?"
The Dali we all recognize was actually the third Salvador Dali in his family. His father also had the name and his parents had another son that was also named Salvador, but he died nine months before Dali was born. For this reason, Dali’s parents always believed that he was the reincarnation of his brother, a belief the artist also held throughout his life. In many of his writings, he claimed that he felt deep stress from the pressures of living as both himself and his dead brother.


"Humble, But Flashy Beginnings"
Dali’s family was decidedly middle class and his mother was incredibly supportive of his work…until she died when he was only 16. The next year, he moved to the student housing at an arts school in Madrid and he immediately started to stand out through his eccentric methods of dress. The young student enjoyed wearing knee breeches with sideburns and long hair, similar to something Oscar Wilde would have worn forty years earlier.

While he made friends with a number of students at the school, he was not an ideal student and was expelled shortly before he completed his courses after he refused to be tested by anyone in the faculty, saying, “I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them.”

It wasn’t long after this that his unique painting style, which seamlessly blended classic influences like Raphael with modern avant garde styles like those of Joan Miro, started to garner him quite a bit of attention in the art community. Not to be outdone by his own artwork, Dali promptly started to grow his trademark moustache, which was influenced by the seventeenth-century painter Diego Velazquez. LINK: Neatorama

Go to Link to get the rest of the biography on Salvador Dali.

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali genio del arte surrealista entrevistado por un ignorante reportero entrevista mexicana. LINK: Youtube

Salvador Dali / Surrealism

A short tribute to great artist Salvador Dali.
Music by: Bernard Herrmann & Erik Satie/Aldo Ciccolini
Edited by Ric Warren. LINK: Youtube

Salvador Dali / Surrealism

A short tribute to great artist Salvador Dali.
Music by: Bernard Herrmann & Erik Satie/Aldo Ciccolini
Edited by Ric Warren. LINK: Youtube

Hitler's Favorite Painter

The Isle of the Dead

Arnold Bocklin was a 19th century symbolist painter whose work influenced and inspired Salvador Dali, Sergi Rachmaninoff, Marcel Duchamp and H. R. Giger. Adolph Hitler owned eleven of his paintings and cited Bocklin as his favorite painter.

More images come from this great Japanese site devoted to Bocklin's work. LINK: Boingboing

A Must See Slide Show of Salvador Dali

© 2006 - Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation - All rights reserved - Legal notice - Privacy - Copyright. Be sure to go to this LINK and watch this. It is awe inspiring.