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by Alonzo Garbonzo on May 20th, 2005

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Was Salvador Dali a real artist or just a flamboyant self-promoter? How would one know the difference?

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  • by tripwire on November 17th, 2006

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    He was both! He had a gift which compelled him to produce some extremely bizarre imagery, and to produce it in a range of technical skill levels if you will. His behavior flew in the face of common, conservative ideas about what an artist should or shouldn't be doing, and so because of this, you could say he pushed the envelope of what defines art for us today. He was merely another agent of the constant evolution of that elusive term, "ART" and what it's perceived to be throughout history. It seems that whenever society gets too smug and complacent with its perceptions, someone comes along and totally shatters them to keep the concept alive and growing. The day we conclusively define what art and artists are, is the day they both die!
    Of course, that day will never come.

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    • You should read my book that Dali wrote, and you'd understand him a great deal better. He said that the greatest art is the most realistic and by that standard, painting reached its peak in the Baroque period with Jan Vermeer van Delft. He regrets living in a period that had Art in chaos with fakers selling trash for high prices and having to go along with some of it in order to make sales.

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      by Garrett_B5610 on October 16th, 2011

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