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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

M.C. Escher Documentary

Metamorphose M.C. Escher (Maurits Cornelis) Documentary, LINK: Youtube

M.C. Escher

M.C. Escher (Short Film). 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

Photographer Shows Us The Process Of His Surreal Pencil Works In Animated Video

Belgian-based photographer, Ben Heine, who is known for his ‘Pencil Vs Camera’ works has created an animated video—demonstrating to us how he creates his ‘surreal yet whimsical’ photos. Link, Via: Youtube
To view his complete collection, please visit his website.

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

Surreally Scribbled Digital Portraits

Image credit: Ayaka Ito and Randy Church [Spotted Via: Design Boom]

Designer/illustrator Ayaka Ito and programmer Randy Church collaborated on a digital project integrating 3D line work and traditional photography. The designers used various applications, including 3D flash drawing and 4D modeling programs. The results are surreal and give the model a shredded, wiry appearance. It’s almost like frantically drawing with an unspooled cassette tape. Check out Ito and Church’s works in detail past the break. LINK

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

The cartoons of Abner Dean

"Abner Dean (1910 – 1982), born Abner Epstein, was an American cartoonist who was the nephew of sculptor Jacob Epstein. In allegorical or surrealist situations, Dean often depicted extremes of human behavior amid grim, decaying urban settings or barren landscapes. His artwork prompted Clifton Fadiman to comment, 'His pictures are trick mirrors in which we catch sight of those absurd fragments of ourselves that we never see in the smooth glass of habit.'"

What Things Do, Jordan Crane's wonderful online comics site, has large reproductions from Abner Dean's brilliant 1947 book, What Am I Doing Here? Via: Boingboing

Hyperreal Paintings

I found these Hyperreal Paintings at this " LINK " but it gave no information on whom did them so I could credit them, sorry.

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

Gala y Salvador Dalí

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

20 Amazing Photos That Are Not Photoshopped

"Big Hand, Little City"

Some brilliant photographs that look like they’re Photo-shopped but are not. These are not photo-shopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real, but might be edited for colors and adjustments in PS or other tools. We hope that you will like this collection, feel free to share your comments. LINK
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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.

Fantastic And Surreal Creatures

A list of some of nature's creations that simply defy human imagination. These are species that are alive today. They may not be big or scary, but these creatures are certainly fantastic and deserve more attention than they usually get. LINK

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