I Hate Dali But.......

He Fascinates me!

His work is over-rated and a knock-off of other more original great surrealists such as Tanguy. However his approach to other artistic endeavours are incredible, especially his involvement in film. I adore his set design in the Hitchcock movie 'Spellbound' (1945), his mixture of photography, film and painting is quite awe-inspiring.

I love the ironic connection between Spellbound, Dali and Alice in Wonderland;A film about Freudian psychoanalysis which stems from the literary genius of Lewis Carroll himself.

Michael Irwin states that “the Alice books, of course, are a gift to the Freudian, proliferating as they do in holes, tunnels, doors, locks, keys, fluids and size-changes.” (found at http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/carroll-lewis)