If this movie interest you, check out the synopsis & trailer here. I think this movie is as stupid as Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Bruno' (remember the 'Borat' guy?) - so gay! (sorry!)
Read synopsis of the movie here:
Madrid in 1922 is a city wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dalí arrives at university at the age of 18 years old, determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university’s social elite — Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel.
Salvador is absorbed into their decadent group and for a time he, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However, as time passes, Salvador feels an increasingly strong pull toward the charismatic Federico — who is oblivious to the attention he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Magdalena. Finally, in the face of his friends’ preoccupations — and Federico’s growing renown as a poet — Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success.
Alone in Madrid, Federico struggles against his psyche, tortured by the damning implications of his own religious beliefs and the undeniable voice of his flesh. He is haunted by news of Salvador, who is collaborating on a Surrealist film with Luis and has embarked on an affair with Gala, a married woman.
By 1936 Spain is teetering on the precipice of civil war, and Federico, now a highly acclaimed and controversial playwright, receives an invitation to dinner from Salvador and Gala. But the hosts have a rather unusual agenda and the evening is a disaster. A week later, Salvador is hosting a party when he discovers that Federico has been assassinated in the outbreak of war. The walls of self-denial that surround the artist come crashing down as he realizes, too late, the depth of his love for Federico.
Here's photos of the real Salvador Dali (younger & older):
And here are 3 of Salvador Dali's famous paintings. I find his paintings creatively strange, unique and super erotic but yet amazing...I like!
The Madonna of Port Iligat
Christ of St John of the Cross
The Persistence of Memory (one of the most famous of Dali's paintings)
I also liked some of Dali's quotes:
'When I paint, the sea roars, the others splash about in the bath'
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
One interesting trivia - do you know the Chupa Chups lollipop? Dali actually designed its logo and the logo is still used on the famous Chupa Chups lolly wrappers until today.
Now I understand what 'surrealism' (A 20th-century literary and artistic movement that attempts to express the workings of the subconscious and is characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtaposition of subject matter) movement is. Here's an example of what surrealist painting looks like. Interesting right?!
I think I'll attempt to paint a surrealist art sometime soon. Wish me luck and be my 1st critic.
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