Word: daly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery reeked of perfume and rustled with silk and feathers. The extra-heavy cream of Manhattan café society eddied thickly between the walls, slowed to an occasional standstill by the 15 new Salvador Dali oils hanging there. The Flying Giant Demi-Tasse gave them pause; so did the Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the 21st Century - a creature with ram's horns and two tongues, one a foot long...
...Dali himself, a man with a delicate handlebar mustache, was as soberly anxious to please as a well-behaved schoolboy at a grownups' party. Modestly, he implied that not one of the paintings was really a finished masterpiece. Said he: "I have just reached the age of 44 and have finally decided that ... it is my duty to start painting my first masterpieces...
Like Salvador Dali, Gugel is perfectly capable of producing art, when he chooses to, that makes sense to everyone, with universal significance, and a craftsmanship that everyone can applaud. Unlike Dali, he often does. And he can duplicate old sculptures and paintings. He makes his living that way. When the baroque church at Diessen decided recently to replace its nine missing Stations of the Cross, Gugel was chosen to do the job. The three he has finished so far are indistinguishable from those made 200 years ago. But he would rather illustrate his Catholicism...
Surrealist Salvador Dali, a realist about his worldly goods, called the cops to report that his seaside bungalow at Pebble Beach, Calif. had been ransacked. Missing: several suitcase loads of silver, jewelry, furs. Ignored by the burglars: all of Dali's crutch-&-limp-watch paintings...
...nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...