Dalí Museum

Don't you just love my creative titles?

Anyway, yes, today I went to Figueres (Figueras in English), the hometown of Salvador Dalí, the um, interesting surrealist painter. It was a field trip for my art class. It was just under 2 hours away by bus. We left at 10am and got back around 5:30.

He designed and built this museum (the self-proclaimed "largest surrealist object in the world") and it is very unique indeed. I'm really not sure how to go about describing it. The museum is called Teatre-Museu Dalí. It's an old theater transformed to house some of his works. I guess I'll just show you some pictures and maybe you'll get a feel for it. Basically he, well, he painted a lot of things, but as a surrealist, he focused on dreams and weird stuff. A lot of his stuff has sexual connotations, too. The more you learn about him, the more you realize that he's weird in pretty much every single way.

A crowd favorite was Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at 20 Meters Becomes a Portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It's a painting of his wife Gala, but when you look at it from, well, 20 meters away, it becomes a painting of our 16th president. Try squinting if you can't see it at first. If you enlarge the picture, it becomes Gala.
Here's a painting called Poetry of America. Apparently it's the first representation of a Coke bottle in art history. The Coke bottle is just to the left of the guy's red pants. Wow, the Internet is being really slow. Only a few more.

Here's his tomb. He was a very egotistic man.There's also a Mae West room. It's a real-life remake of one of his paintings. Here you can see a room with a couch, fireplace thing, and 2 pictures.
Through the lenses provided (sorry it is blurry. Very low light) you can see that it takes on the face of Mae West (and to be honest, I don't know who that is...)

And Dalí was obsessed with Millet's painting called The Angelus Hour. The Angelus Hour is at noon, I believe, and I think it's because that's when the angel came to Mary, or something. Anyway, I guess Catholics used to stop what they were doing at noon and say a prayer. Millet did a painting of this but Dalí believed there was some big conspiracy about the painting. That it was actually something else. He wrote a book about it and did many paintings of it, or paintings with it in it.

Well, that's a look into Dalí and his odd museum. I'm going to get some homework done and then probably a frozen pizza! Yea! My señor usually doesn't cook on weekends.

Enjoy the weekend, everyone!