So Real Daily? Surreal Dali
Long days at work, very tired from silly late nights and mind boggled from many bosses making extensive travel plans. I am beginning to feel more like a Travel Agent than a PA.
After work I dragged lushfemke with me to the Dali & Film exhibition at Tate Modern. I hadn't been expecting too much from the exhibit but was really thrilled to find it full to the brim with Dali's more popular and 'known' works. I hadn't realised the full extent of his link with film at all. I certainly didn't realise he collaborated with Alfred Hitchock for example. This dream sequence in what I believe to be a movie called Spellbound is simply mesmerising:
The collaboration with Hitchock, certainly makes sense. Both artist's have a certain 'noir' and sinister aspect to their work. I was completely sideswiped by the work that Dali did with Disney however, and was not at all prepared to accept that Disney was at one point not only linked with but interested in producing acutal art. lushfemke had already made the link with Dali and animation, suggesting he'd have made a wild Computer Graphics manipulator (I'm too terrified to think about what he could have conjurred with increased access to technology) so we had quite a chuckle to learn that he was already on it! You can see the trailer for Destino below.
Apologies for yet another video laden post. It is quite a lazy way of blogging isn't it? Here look at these pictures someone else made and I don't have to make words for you :)
Oh wait! There was some other exhibition on at Tate Modern which we also had access to. It was some utter rubbish about colour and exactly the kind of thing which inspires Daily Mail readers to rue the merits of Modern Art. If you like that sort of thing go and see Helio Oiticica, if not save your money and trust me :)
After work I dragged lushfemke with me to the Dali & Film exhibition at Tate Modern. I hadn't been expecting too much from the exhibit but was really thrilled to find it full to the brim with Dali's more popular and 'known' works. I hadn't realised the full extent of his link with film at all. I certainly didn't realise he collaborated with Alfred Hitchock for example. This dream sequence in what I believe to be a movie called Spellbound is simply mesmerising:
Click to viewThe collaboration with Hitchock, certainly makes sense. Both artist's have a certain 'noir' and sinister aspect to their work. I was completely sideswiped by the work that Dali did with Disney however, and was not at all prepared to accept that Disney was at one point not only linked with but interested in producing acutal art. lushfemke had already made the link with Dali and animation, suggesting he'd have made a wild Computer Graphics manipulator (I'm too terrified to think about what he could have conjurred with increased access to technology) so we had quite a chuckle to learn that he was already on it! You can see the trailer for Destino below.
Apologies for yet another video laden post. It is quite a lazy way of blogging isn't it? Here look at these pictures someone else made and I don't have to make words for you :)
Oh wait! There was some other exhibition on at Tate Modern which we also had access to. It was some utter rubbish about colour and exactly the kind of thing which inspires Daily Mail readers to rue the merits of Modern Art. If you like that sort of thing go and see Helio Oiticica, if not save your money and trust me :)