An Arm's Length away from Dali...

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali (1904-1989)

Quoted from Wikipedia:

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.

Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. The purposefully-sought notoriety led to broad public recognition and many purchases of his works by people from all walks of life.

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Yes, yesterday i met Dali, the eccentric man behind so many well none surrealist paintings, who employed many symbols ino his artworks and whose masterpiece was inspired by a runny piece of Camembert Cheese. He was 20ft high and stood high and mighty at the grand entrance of Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The Great Dali was just an arm's length away...on he 15th of Feb, i met with Santiago El Grande (1957).

It depicts the asenscion of Christ as Dali had visualised in a dream, the human's foot and arm dangling from the horse is said to be Dali's own. Apparantly, he thought his foot to look quite princely.

What an obnoxious man...

La Turbie: Sir James Dunn

To the left of the HUGEEeee Dali painting was another of his smaller artworks of Sir James Dunn, who apparantly is some important historic figure in olden New Brunswick (he donated alot to the development of the school i think cause there's like halls named after him).

" Sir James Dunn met Dali while they dined in the same restaurant. Dali called him over to his table, they met, and became friends. Mr Dunn comissioned a work by Dali, but after it was completed he didn't like how his feet looked, and deemed it unsuitable for his office, therefore it was donated to the Gallery at a later date. Dali chose to paint him as Caesar, because he thought Dunn to look strikingl similar."

My first thought when I read the description was that Dali sure knows how to "pai ma pi"...Sorry Dali...Oh well, at least he made it rich by kissing people's ass.

Directly opposite the Dali paintings was the most obscene painting i've seen so far, it was definitely ironic that the museum chose to hang it directly opposite the Dali paintings at the grand entrance. It definitely gave an ironic twist to the whole thing.

Dicks, obscene sign languages, homosexuality, buncha naked guys in miners suit in the face of the asenscion of Christ...what do you get? A really-confused-curator-suffering -mid-life-crisis or doesn't know what the heck he's doing.

Other exhibits in the museum:

Smallest Freaking Study Table I Have Ever Seen, don't even remember the name...can it even fit my pencil case??!

I did a bit of sight-seeing before the museum trip and took some pictures. Visited a church where the kind lady attendent led us to the santuary, she said it was the largest oldest church in the city. Haven't gone to church in a while, gosh, i'm missing church and praise and worship :S