Did you like, just read the Wikipedia Article on him? Because that's like, exactly what it says there. [snicker] Anyway, I know. First of all, if you didn't flee World War II when you could you'd be a madman, and I hold criticism, however slight, for anyone who willfully engaged in it . [edit: oversight on my part - the Spanish Civil War was a noble war and it was necessary to attend such, but only if you care about it, which Dali didn't. You don't have to care] What he thought about Franco, well whatever. I don't agree, but there are perfectly valid, serious people who hold such strange and controversial opinions. Dali attempted to be neither valid nor serious, and the greatest body of his life and work far makes up for any late sillyness. Anyway, It doesn't reflect on his art in the slightest, which deals exclusively with the voluptuousness of mind. As for fame, he was an artist on the Avant-Garde, he wasn't a Hollywood filmstar, we're not talking about Marlin Brando, fame has nothing to do with this. Fame is not and has never been a meritocracy. Art is judged by it's skill, expression, character, whatever... And in these qualities, as a surrealist, as an artist, and for me, as a man, he was exceptional. The criticism is timid and has to be sought out, and if I was to speak with him it wouldn't take more than five minutes of conversation, you know? It's nothing to do with artists.
And; hedonism isn't political, no. At most, you, as Dali did, leave when your lifestyle is disrupted. If the Troubles began in Northern Ireland again, I would leave, because my being a little slutty bohemian in Belfast lifestyle would be no more. That's a ridiculous infringement that I want no part in, and if my leaving the country to do better things that get caught in fighting is a political statement, it's the meekest political statement of all of them!
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