Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Woah!

Dali's museum is so surprising that there aren't really words to describe it. The terraces and open spaces are filled with large sculpture (car wreck, weird mannequins doing "YMCA" as Ed joked, etc.) His most famous work, Persistence of Memory and its melting clocks, is in MoMA http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79018
though a tapestry of the same work is in Figueres. Ed liked the Don Quixote and Divine Comedy series. Nate liked the mounted rhinocerous head with a squid above it. I liked Bed and Two Bedside Tables Ferociously Attaching a Cello. Ben liked Picasso in the 21st Century as well as all of Dali's mirror paintings. Ben and I tried to figure out Soft Self-Portrait with Bacon to no avail http://www.salvador-dali.org/dali/coleccio/en_50obres.html?ID=W0000047
There's just a lot going on that we didn't understand but as Dali insisted that anyone leaving the museum should come out with false information, we're probably good. What made us very happy was that we beat the crowds. As we neared the end at the top of the museum, I saw through the window the beginnings of a huge crowd (5th picture). When we left the line to get in rounded the block in the hot sun. For once, we got it just right.



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