Word: daly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Described as "a bit of surrealism to end all surrealism" by Ceramist Aitken, the figure was a burlesque of the paintings and parties of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Nov. 26). It was a very white lady with turquoise blue hair, clock faces for breasts and lamb chops sprouting from her shoulders. In a turquoise lined square aperture in her stomach stands a brightly colored vase. A fried egg is in one hand, a blue fish in the other. Around her stomach is a girdle of field mice. Directly in front of her polished thighs are two little football players...
...colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional...
...Manhattan, socialites hung themselves with lamb chops, mushrooms, alarm clocks, lobsters, hot water bottles and sausages and gathered in a swank night club to dance. They were dressed as their own dreams to do honor to Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali who paints realistic pictures of horrid fantasies and was about to sail for Europe after a Manhattan exhibition (TIME, Nov. 26). On the stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia...
They are also completely devoid of humor and largely erotic. A familiar property in Dali paintings is a crutch which supports fantastic pieces of flesh...
Painting is his métier but the cinema is Salvador Dali's hobby. Already he has written and helped to produce two surrealist cinemas, Le Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or. The latter film, an irrational hodge-podge of sense and sensuality, was banned in Paris but shown behind locked doors in Manhattan two winters ago. Excerpt from the official synopsis...