Last weekend the school as a group took a bus the Costa Brava and on up into the south of France (I would like to buy a "damburgen"!). My favorite stop definitely was the Salvador Dali Museum. Dali actually lived there until he died. When you first see the building you can't help but notice the depictions of bread everywhere and the eggs on top of the building. Dali was obsessed with bread, thinking it gave magical powers.The eggs...well, the study abroad people wanted me to keep this PG so I'll leave that up to you to google (Hint: huevos in Spanish has a double meaning).
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| Dali Museum. Those gold dots are actually croissants! |
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| Back of museum. Statue is holding bread. |
After leaving the museum I came away with 3 conclusions.
- Dali was a genius. Pure textbook genius. There was nothing we couldn't do. He painted a picture of Beethoven in 10 minutes using his hands, feet, and ... octopuses. And it was really good.
- He adored his wife Gala. After she died he stopped painting and became a recluse.
- He was crazy. He had a lot of preoccupations, one being he thought he was the incarnation of his older brother also named Salvador Dali who died before him. He had a broken relationship with his family and had a terrible phobia of death. But he was extremely productive. Here is a sample of some of his works.
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| Dali's first Surrealist painting |
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| Gala |
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