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[humanist]

Salvador Dali...... now he was an interesting man

[twinkle]

Relevance to Cyprus Problem????

[bg_turk]

that guy was a bulgar hater. He drew a bulgarian kid eating a rat.

[rawk]

I thought it was a rat eating a Bulgarian kid?

Rawk

[andri_cy]

This is all interesting, but isnt this more of a general chat thing?

[rawk]

Only if you're into chatting with Bulgarian rats, Popsidoodle!

Rawk

[bg_turk]

I thought it was a rat eating a Bulgarian kid?

Rawk

you thought wrong

I have no idea what Dali had against Bulgarians.

[rawk]

Was it Rat au Vin?

http://www.blackadderhall.com/series/four_quotes.shtml

Rawk

[rawk]

Hey Salvi.

When I was in Spain in the 70's, and he made a mean paella, I used to call him that then.

That rat picture he painted in 1939. Its title is perverse. He was using the juxtoposition between the innocent child and the rat to upset the comfortable middle classes.

A symbol of evil, pestilance and evil being devoured by innocence.

But why Bulgaria? He laughed and said, "Anywhere, senor, anywhere!

Anywhere where the rich do not to have to look at their countrymen and shudder at what their children have to eat! Then they will still buy my paintings".

"Salvi! you're a cynic!," I replied.

"Better a cynic than a modern romantic", he laughed.

I never spoke to him again after that visit, I think he fell ill and did not converse with anyone, he died sometime later in 1989.

Maybe he felt a country just far away but within imagination could be quoted to avoid any flak from the clientele in western Europe who admired his work?

Rawk