Andre Breton, wrote the surrealistic manifest in 1924. I knew him ) Anyways its not about showing off what you know off course. I think Freud was right, thats why I often consider abstract art also as a realistic, since abstract thoughts come from ideas and we think about something, its not like hmm I just think about thinking, there's visuals in thinking...am I talking bullshit...thats even a visual. But if you paint nature or people for example without giving it a layer of personality, it would be unconscious, you just print out on paper or canvas what you see, things wont be explaned by telling what you see is that you see. Cheers, Skhip
Dali was a hippie in certain ways: his lack of inhibition, his expression of sexuality in his paintings, his focus on the subconscious over rationality, his mysticism, and in his love for Gala. Dali was not a hippie in his love of money, his support for Franco, his Catholicism, his distaste for communists, his dislike for certain people who were sick and infirm, his general antisocial behavior, and in his general lack of political correctness. Dali was an individual, so he could never be another hippie clone, but he definitely had tendencies hippies could admire. From what I understand, he tried hashish, and may have experimented with psychedelics, but psychedelics were unnecessary for his artistic and personal expression. He didn't need drugs; he was drugs. He was not insane, but he had leanings toward insanity which likely heightened and intensified his creative expression. I won't argue as to his stature relative to other artists, but he was clearly a great draughtsman with great intellectual curiosity. His paintings are full of symbolism. What I admire about Dali is not only the beauty of his paintings but that he remained true to himself despite his fame and personal success.
