Friday, June 15, 2012

Things are not always as they seem

I visited the Salvadore Dali Museum in St. Petersburg Florida yesterday. I find his work fascinating but unsettling. Things are not always as they seem. I'm looking at the print of the Hallucenogenic Toreado that I bought. Looking at the print I can see the Toreado clearly. Glance away and look again and I can't see him without focusing first on the center Venus' left breast. The parallels with life are maybe too obvious. The eye of the beholder . . . Things not obvious at first glance . . . . The forest and the trees. Dali was known for rejecting the establishment. I wonder if he'd see the irony of having his work stamped on coffee mugs?

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