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mannequins inside. He later improved upon this idea calling it Mannequin rotting in a taxicab.
Dali and Gala lived in America during World War II. In 1941 he wrote his autobiography The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. George Orwell discusses Dali’s book in his publication as well. he felt that Dali seemed to “be excempt from moral laws that are binding to other people.” (177) He also claims that a society in which a person like this flourishes is undoubtly flawed. He notes that Dali is gifted and has great imagination but that his “art” allows no middle position of thought about it. “If you say you don’t like rotting corpses and that people who do like rotting corpses are mentally diseased it is assumed that you lack the aesthetic sense.” (Orwell176-177).In 1944 Salvador wrote a second novel called Hidden faces, a tragic love story.
He painted Galarina(1944) and Dream caused by flight of the bumblebee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening(1944) In 1945 Salvador’s paintings were used for the dream sequence in the Hitchcock film Spellbound(bio.com) this lead to an interest in photography and fashion. Dali seemed very narcissistic he spoke about himself in the third person and said “every morning …, I experience a supreme pleasure; that of being Salvador Dali “(Smithsonian 2005). He was interview on 60 minutes by Micheal Wallace and did the same thing the whole time. He displayed this in other ways too.Dali drew pictures on his checks . His ego led him to believe that they were valuable and that people wouldn’t cash them. So he usually got away with it ,getting dinners for free (artexperts.com).
Salvador was insatiable. He was constantly evolving, and constantly trying new things. He created set designs and sculptures. He did interior design.He created dinnerware. He made clothes.He created jewelry.He made advertisments. He was even noted as making wine bottle labels for Baron Philippe de Rothschild. (Daley 2011) Which I’m sure he enjoyed because the artists were paid in wine. In 1969 Salvador developed the logo for Chupa Chups ,one of my favorite candies from childhood. It seemed he felt he had to keep working and producing art all the time. This may be a premonition to events that would follow.
Later in life Dali turned to Catholisim as a means to religion. In his later book Dali By Dali ,he claims to be a Roman Catholic but also an agnostic,an anarchist and a monarchist. This suits Dali’s style so to speak, to be on the fence and not commit to any one politics.recent evidence has arsisen from an article written in Catholic news in 2005 ,that Dali had given the priest, Berardi,who performed ann exorsism on him a sculpture as a gift. The sculpture has sench been authenticated . This may have made Orwell happy. he felt that Dali needed psychological evaluation .”But what he clearly needs is diagnosis.The question is not as much what he is as why he is like that(179).”