Years later, when Daley recalled his grandfather, who suffered from depression and delusions of grandeur, chose to kill himself on a dull to dead afternoon. It became clear that the prefix "madman" Dalí would follow him forever.
The magic began in 1886, when the unhappy "madman", 36-year-old Gail Joseph Daly (Grandpa Daly), rushed to the balcony of his apartment, screaming that someone was trying to murder him.
He frantically slapped the non-existent person behind him, and the police arrived on the scene to save Grandpa, who was about to jump off the building. A few days later, he leapt from the balcony and fell headfirst into the patio, where he was pronounced dead on the spot.
Originally, he was going to be sent to an insane asylum that day.
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Eighteen years later Dalí was born. For as long as he can remember, the entire Dalí family has been notoriously secretive about its shameful past. Unfortunately, the family's wheel of mystery did not stop there.
For just three years before his birth, his older brother died of meningitis. And there was some kind of coincidence that Dali, born immediately after him, looked so much like his dead brother in terms of the time of his birth. The parents were determined that Dali was the reincarnation of his brother.
The name of his brother was reassigned to Dalí, along with "frailty, arrogance and grotesque behavior".
Perhaps it is true that at the age of seven, Dali is already showing the first signs of a personality that is difficult to understand.
He didn't like spinach because it wasn't fixed enough; he still wet the bed at the age of eight, and when asked why, it was purely for fun; he was keen to defecate in certain hidden places in the house and then play "treasure hunt" with his family.
Parents have suffered a lot, but this is not the most bizarre.
Darley once found an injured bat in the kitchen, he brought back to the room to take good care of, one person and a pet, sympathy. But the little bat was only briefly loved for a while.
That afternoon, Darley found a small bat was surrounded by a group of ants, his response was not to immediately drive the ants away, but to pick up the bat full of ants crawling madly bitten in half.
Years later, director Hitchcock recalled in an interview: "I worked with Dali and found his idea quite strange, he wanted to crack the sculpture like a broken shell, which is crawling with ants, covering the actress Ingrid Bergman's whole body! It was impossible to do."
The ant appears in his works in an absolute posture, occupying the high ground of thought - like a disordered prophet.
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At the age of six, Dalí wanted to be a chef; at seven, he changed his mind and set his heart on being Napoleon. At the age of ten, after being sent by his father to a Catholic high school, he had already revealed his talent for painting, presenting himself as an impressionist painter. A mania for greatness became a mysterious intuition on Dali's path growing up.
By the time he was fifteen, he figured out, "I want to be Dali."
Even historically gifted painters have rarely had solo exhibitions in their early twenties and become a huge success. Dalí was one of them.
Years later, when asked what he thought of Picasso, Dali uttered the famous quote that has been widely circulated.
"Picasso is Spanish, and so am I; Picasso is a genius, and so am I; Picasso is world-famous, and so am I."
Paris has become a place of blessing for Dalí.
At the age of 27, he had already reached an early peak in his life. In the summer of that year, a painting entitled "Memory of Eternity" was created.
Even if you don't know anything about Dali, you will surely remember the melting soft clock.
The content of this small painting, only 24 cm high, extends infinitely beyond the canvas and into the expanse, full of a solemn aura.
"It is a dead beach, where time is distorted and life stands still, as if everything is melted into a mindless blur.
Ants appear in the painting, and the pocket watch, which is usually placed in the heart, is being gnawed by this tiny group of beings, causing slight discomfort, and it is a metaphor for the deep unease about the passage of time."
In search of this surreal illusion, he has visited mental hospitals to understand the consciousness of sick people, believing that their words and actions are often thesincerestreflection of a subconscious world.
The streets of Paris in the 1920s were the place where "surrealism" began. Young artists gathered in piles, moving from dream to reality, from nothingness to eternity.
Dalí imagined sleep as a heavy monster, an immortal archetype supported by the crutch of reality.
In order to make dreams a constant source of inspiration, Dali had his own tricks. He often sat in a chair, holding the spoon over the plate to snooze.
When he fell asleep, the spoon would fall onto the plate, making a sound loud enough to wake him up, and then in time to record his dream scenes.
But he more often used the second method - to remain upside down until he was about to pass out, continuing in a state of semi-consciousness where the visions in his head were the material for the next piece of work.
If someone says that a dream of Dalí is worth a billion dollars, this person is definitely not joking.
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Like the perpetual motion of the hot spot making machine, 35-year-old Daley, already has the awareness of media people, even run a newspaper are dominantly named "Daley News".
As the "first generation of netizens", what can grab the attention of the public in the shortest time, he is familiar with.
The two iconic beards, that is how it came about.
He once led a 25-meter-long loaf of bread on his shoulders to waltz through the city; he nearly strangled himself to death when he wore a diving suit on stage to give a speech, and only recovered his life when a friend finally grabbed a hammer and smashed it into him.
It can be said that wherever there is a Dalí, there is news.
One fall, Daley was photographed walking an anteater, which became the most magical news of the era. But for Dalí, this was to be expected, and he was often on the front page of the news, with the cover of Time magazine alone being occupied by him for six issues.
Dali really stepped out of the two-dimensional world of the canvas in 1948, when he first tried to work with photography.
Life magazine published a set of photographs that today seem so avant-garde that, in a time when images were not photoshopped, they were a masterpiece, opening up a whole new realm of photographic art.
To present the effect of levitation, each flying element was thrown.
It took four assistants six hours and 28 repeated shots, with the assistant throwing the cat 200 times while throwing water into the air, to complete this perfect exposure.
It is said that everyone was exhausted after completion and the unfortunate cat was later hospitalized for a week before being revitalized.
Dalí also invited photographer Philippe Halsman to collaborate on "In Voluptas Mors," a portrait of seven beautiful women with naked backs in the shape of "skulls" as a backdrop, which took 28 attempts and three hours.
A similar series of 88 photographs, entitled "Dalí by Halsman", was exhibited at the Galla Dalí Castle in Figueras, Spain, created by Dalí and the photographer Philippe.
As a newcomer to the world of photography, Dali's list of accomplishments is inarguably eye-catching. Even the Oscar-winning film "The Silence of the Lambs" poster has his work in the figure.
He has spared no effort in extending his surreal reach into all fields.
He has been sought after by the fashionable women in the world of fashion; his jewelry is still a soul-stirring attraction; his furniture, the "Red Lip Sofa", is a collector's classic; even Chanel has used his "wheat ears" as a classic totem......
Whether these seemingly paradoxical and surreal visions were linking Dali's innermost being in the form of a self-portrait remains unknown today.
However, he was very good at experiencing - the joy of the genius Dali.
One day in the 1960s, a party was being held in a New York hotel.
One of the participants, a young painter named Andy Warhol, brought one of his best paintings, "Marilyn Monroe", and dedicated it to the host of the party.
The owner took a look at it and said, without looking up, "This is not art", and casually threw the painting on the ground.
The next moment, he peed on the painting in public and said "Now, this is art".
The host of the party was Dali.
Whether one acknowledges it or not, Dali deserves the word "genius". He was able to find the meaning of art in the long human world by cutting a path through it. This fatal gravitational pull has lasted for generations, and in a sense, the artist and his work have been immortalized.
As Dalí himself said, "I am a genius and have no right to die."
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