Salvador Dali: A Life in Conflict

[@Biographics]

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[@charlesdegaulle7327]

Thank you for the subtitles on the video

[@winterroll5255]

make visualpolitic EN content man

[@GrxndDxD]

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[@chrisnicholls445]

Can you please do a video on nightclub owner eddie nash not much information out there on nash ,just mostly the wonderland murders

[@anilkumarmuppirala1564]

Been waiting for months for this video made my day thanks 😍

[@QuestionEverythingButWHY]

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali

[@woodyjones5725]

'I'm gonna jizz on you' -Salvador Dali

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

"Im totally fake-deep, highly narcissistic, and constantly post cliche inspirational quotes over selfies of myself. " - Every Attractive Social Media Influencer

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

@Julian Palmer E for Effort lol

[@juststop9379]

"I hate ethnicities" - Salvador Dali

[@goyoelburro]

You know you are quoting a fascist, yes? 😂

[@mikdan8813]

"I don't take drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali

[@theprogramshow8816]

Sweeet

[@brianspenst1374]

My favorite Dali quote.

[@monkeydank7842]

Dali is legal. So drugs should be. It would help many problems.

[@wilfridwibblesworth2613]

He should've said "I dno't tkae dgrus. I am dgurs!" or something.

[@MiscMitz]

@@wilfridwibblesworth2613 lol.

[@Jman1564]

Fun fact: When Dali ate at a restaurants, he nearly never paid for the meal. He would write a cheque for the bill, but then start doodling on the back. As a result, any restaurateurs who knew him refused to cash them.

[@woodyjones5725]

That was Picasso

[@john_Reilly2027]

Also the same trick of Jack Charlton, the once manager of the Irish football team

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

That was most famously Picasso, but others pulled that trick as well. There was even a Saturday Night Live skit with John Lovitz as Picasso paying just signing napkins and other paper and using it as money in a restaurant. It's funny, yes, but it's also a demonstration of what a grifter he was.

[@shebastinson7813]

@@Gunners_Mate_Guns my 6 year old granddaughter has more talent than Picasso

[@Z4J3B4NT]

Fun "fact"

[@brianspenst1374]

You totally missed an inportant piece of his Brother's death. The older brother was also named Salvador. Dali was essentially named after his dead brother. This just added to his emotional issues in his early years.

[@audiosurfarchive]

Yikes.

[@reneebarger5194]

The same as Sarah Pardee Winchester, she was named after a sister who passed before her.

[@oleum5589]

Same as Vincent Van Gogh

[@ewestner]

Same as my uncle who was named after his older brother who had passed away before he was born. Although I don't know this uncle very well so I don't know if he has any emotional issues about it.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

My dad ran away from home a couple times. When he was 10, he was on the road for most of three months before he got busted, sent to reform school and then sent back home. He did it again when he was 12 and was gone until he was 16. My grandparents named my newborn uncle the same name as my dad in that period. To say that the two of them didn't get along is putting it mildly.

[@miss19lolo]

"Still fresher than anything served at the olive garden" SIMON!!!

[@treyi345]

No no he's got a point. Worked there for a while. Definitely is fresher.

[@pandapotato1617]

He’s not wrong

[@jbuechler2476]

The truth hurts!

[@Texassince1836]

What in the business blaze is going on here

[@azure7687]

Ahahahahahhahahahaha olive garden hahahahaha soooooo funny ahahahahaaa the garden ahahahahahaahaaa

[@johne.nobody2946]

“As a young man, a woman complimented his beautiful feet, so he responded by trampling her...” Well, as one does, I suppose.

[@timberwolfenstein]

Many years ago my uncle Joe purchased a relatively inexpensive painting at an auction in New York city. I'm not totally clear on all of the details but Dali really wanted that painting and contacted my uncle in an attempt to buy it from him. Being an avid art collector and a huge fan of Dali, he just gifted him the painting and had it crated and delivered. Dali was so touched by this gesture that he reciprocated by giving him a one off painting with my uncle's last name incorporated into it. I had another uncle "Manny", Joe's younger brother, who purchased a Dali statue. I was a little kid but I'll never forget it. It was a small, solid gold Giraffe with two drawers protruding from its chest, one of which was held up by a crutch in a very typical Salvador Dali style! BTW, John Lennon was a college dropout too!

[@jdrmurphy4141]

So was Hitler

[@DB-MH11]

Great little story... thanks

[@alexlopez5800]

So was mark Zuckerberg

[@dallastexas5653]

So was Kanye west

[@WisdomTooth1987]

Did he sell it later?

[@lorenzmuller3542]

I love Dalí. Love the colors of his surrealist work! Favorite painter.

[@shawnnewell4541]

That melting clock was on my junior year chemistry book. I thought it appropriate given how odd chemistry was.

[@katherinek2709]

I think we had that same book haha

[@djquinn11]

My Physical Chemistry textbook in college should have had Munch’s The Scream on the cover.

[@joansmith3296]

As is the case for so many creative souls in this life, poor Dali was a victim of his own talent. He crossed that line between being a superb artist and a joke.

[@geraldfriend256]

Acquaintance saw Dali performance art.Big prank on the audience 5 minute drive by.nope

[@BlueblueN]

Gerald Friend what

[@lauriekrebs4522]

Poor Dali my ass.

[@maximeprometheas]

"This autobiography might not be true, but as autobiographies go, it is accurate." - Salvador Dali.

[@colinfew6570]

This is a good one. It's nice when the presenter knows what they're talking about and has a passion for the subject matter.

[@hewasfuzzywuzzy3583]

I swear Simon Whistler will rule the KZbin algorithms no matter how many times KZbin tries to change viewing habits, Simon's channels are... E V E R Y W H E R E.

[@Texassince1836]

We are not far from the day where Simon IS the algorithm

[@skyden24195]

Yeup. The next season of "Cobra Kia" is going to be "Cobra Kia: Dojo of Simon Whistler."

[@RickReasonnz]

Welcome to SimonTube

[@audiosurfarchive]

So, how many is it? I know.. 4? There's gotta be more though.

[@hoonterofhoonters6588]

I for one, welcome our anglo accented overlord.

[@Swissswoosher]

Simon being sassy for almost 30 minutes. I lost it when he said “still fresher than anything served at Olive Garden”. Simon, I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!

[@TheJosep70]

Saw him once a long time ago in Figueras, I was just outside his museum and he was watching from a window. He died shortly afterwards.

[@ahernandez50]

"That bread is 90 years old and still is fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden" Hahaha, timeless.

[@rillloudmother]

The Dali museum in Clearwater Fl is one of the best art museums in the US. When I visited they also had an MC Escher exhibition!!

[@kelvinwilson1516]

2 of his paintings are in the New Brunswick Art museum in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I remember the day my mother and father showed me these paintings. I spent hours staring in awe.

[@catguy00]

Little Fredericton is so lucky to have these paintings.

[@anjulikamins6420]

And a good morning to all! Thank you Simon & co for all the content during quarantine. You guys are all great, much appreciation to you all. Keep up the great work.

[@bobbyrobmaxey]

"Expect a revival of monarchist-anarchism on GOOP any day now" 😂😂😂 incredible jab

[@darkop3191]

Salvador Dali, the very image of the eccentric artist and the inspiration for one of my favorite characters in Bioshock - Sander Cohen.

[@SegwayBossk]

Never put that together but now I totally see it

[@kisti11]

Simon, you are one of the most professional, likeable, funny and easy to listen to people on KZbin. I have learned tons of history because of you and I'd like to give my thanks. Keep doing what you're doing, you're the best at it!

[@ARIZJOE]

Back in the glam rock era, I took arty dates to the Dali Museum in Cleveland (eventually it moved to Florida). It was the largest collection of Dali works in the western hemisphere. A Spanish teacher showed us "Un Chien Andalou." Then when I approached 60, I met an English Lord who lived next to Dali in Cadaques, Spain. His recollections of Dali were exactly what you'd imagine. Hence, given the era in which I grew up, and my personal but removed connection to him, Salvador Dali is my favorite artist. In a puerile, happenstance way, he was part of my life.

[@dwarfbunni]

Dali: one of history's most creative troll.

[@conspiracycornerpodcast4302]

Most def

[@llamasaurwithabiscuit5690]

He does a minimal amount of tomfoolery

[@garettrobichaux]

I kept expecting Simon to do the businessblaze rim shot after he made every quip.

[@flowertrue]

Yeah I can't play the drinking game at all with Biographics (although I do enjoy them when I'm not drinking). No script slaps, no bada boom boom, no memes.

[@WanderingWriter]

When I did a summer abroad in Spain, I had the great opportunity to go to his museum in Figueras. His sculpture installments are very intriguing. Actually, the building itself is an installment as the ceiling in the main atrium is made of domed glass, like the eyes of an insect

[@EagleLeader1]

That Olive Garden quip was priceless! Love it.

[@Dekko-chan]

“Why did you include hitler’s picture in your painting” “Because i wanted to”

[@katherinek2709]

Simon's humor was seriously on point in this one. I died of laughter.

[@surlygirly1926]

Is it his? Or the author's? Perhaps a collaboration?

[@maltschlitzman8412]

@@surlygirly1926 it's 100% a collaboration between the writers, editors, and Simon. Everyone gets their hand in the soup :)

[@BavonWW]

I wandered the same coastline as a child. I met Dali with my father and saw him many more times. The coastline as far as La Fosca beach (Palamos) remains magical.

[@kpounders7437]

I am surprised his collaboration with Walt Disney in "Destino" was never even mentioned.

[@bluechicken4866]

I know, right? I saw that at one of his exhibitions and I was amazed that they'd finally managed to realise hus vision. If anyone here hasn't seen it yet look it up on KZbin!

[@jakeweberzwier8655]

I'm also surprised he left out how his surrealist colleagues tried to destroy a painting of Lenin with elongated buttocks

[@MsValeriaHeart]

Because this video is about Dali, not Disney. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@420happyhippy]

After seeing this comment, I excitedly paused this, searched the title, and supringingly found the entire short film in full right here on KZbin for free. ...And though it is a proper collaboration between two legendary figures within the world of both animation, imagination, and popular media.... was.... ummm... definitely not my personal cup of tea. And in my opinion: was a waste of both worlds producing efforts..... * * *shrug* * * ......Twas lesser then the two combined equal parts. I.E. cheese cake = amazing. McDonald's chicken nuggets = awesome. Chicken nuggets dipped into a sauce made of whipped cream cheese? = awesomely amazing?!? No. Not at all man. C'mon....

[@tistedmentality3715]

You should do one for the Japanese man that survived the two nuclear bombs that hit Japan. That man lived we'll pass his 70s, so yeah that dude is a true champ.

[@spikeevans1488]

For years several of us would cook and consume a feast from the Dali cookbook on 11-May. Fancy Mushroom Puree was one of the staples.

[@mangot589]

Yay! Dali, my favorite crazy, I mean artistic, person! Thanks Simon.

[@sisaktamas]

That was probably the most well written, most informing and most interesting biography I saw on this channel so far. The depth of the artistic interpretations are yours, Simon or the author’s Malt Schlitzmann?

[@katherinehamilton5874]

This would have been perfect for my Surrealism essay. Too bad the deadline was yesterday 😭😫

[@MrDUneven]

Well, if they don't give you good markings, ask to re-do it, then bring a piece of cheddar and tell it is the soap our lord used before the last supper.

[@personofnoimportance5590]

@@MrDUneven what 😂

[@booradley0x0]

Argh!!! Goes to show you’re still thinking about your essay, hope you get a good grade! 👍

[@GrimpakTheMook]

The essay could be resume to: "Dalí; a mad man, a mad genius, a mad artist, totally mad."

[@jonnnyren6245]

I think I can enjoy having a 4 hour conversation with Simon. The way he talks and how he describes artists is what I find kind of mezmerizing.

[@BillMcGirr]

“The only difference between Dali and a madman is... I am not mad.” 😁👍

[@sassysasquatch2722]

No one really knows for sure what art is but apparently it's amazing.

[@MrDoYouKnowMe2211]

Dalí's life is like a house fire. Glorious and terrible to watch while it's unfolding, but after it's done, practically nothing of value is left of it.

[@ziparis]

The paintings?

[@dreasmom2789]

I wonder if Dali feel the same?

[@TheJaviferrol]

His moustache aldo defied gravity

[@bretthess6376]

His moustache was named Aldo?

[@rebeccaschmidt2550]

Dali is my favorite artist. Not personality but his paintings. So happy you are doing him on your you tube channel !

[@philipaddyman7402]

Brilliant. One of your best, Simon. It's quite incredible how you maintain such a high level of passion for such a wide breadth of subjects; before Dali I watched your film on the Titanic and her sister liners. You never fail to impress.

[@stevenr5534]

As much as we think of Dali as a daring experimental surrealist artist. But, we need to respect his strengths in traditional style. I think he had the basic skills in a very strong way. And, from there he challenges us.

[@monkey9274]

In the top left corner. Dali is painted 3 different time. Move the picture to the top to see a picture of him and his mother. Flip the picture again. And the top left corner turns into his face looking down. And flip it how it was painted you can see the half top of his head... Dali painted in 2 forms. To a image and a 3 forms to a image.

[@sweetmeme1987]

YAAAAAAAS. have not watch yet but I was waiting for this one.

[@joedoe783]

Who hasn't been through a nuclear mysticism phase?

[@kylesteele4876]

Underrated comment

[@lexistrying157]

Y’all, Lincoln in Dalivision is one of the best things ever, it’s like a naked lady, but when you step back, its Lincoln. That’s why he is the best artist of all time. PERIOD!

[@ronagoodwell2709]

You can go back centuries and find many artists who painted bizarre optical illusions, and they did it better than Dali. He was over-rated. The Surrealists were right to throw him out.

[@dickrichards9650]

Marla Worrill. Alas, someone with some taste!!! Gracias..

[@Wildopal]

I love Dali, he was so freaky. When you mentioned Goop, I fell out😂😂😂

[@robertgiles9124]

The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali is a book that exposes a lot of his bizarre behavior. Dali was never a great guy, he would cheat collectors like Edward James, and he had at least two people painting his works for him by the 1970s. His weird sex romps were strange, but each to his own. The saddest comment in the book was at his death, his long time house servants was not left a dime ...and said, "Senior Dali never loved anyone"...Quite a sad epitaph. For me his illustration skills were never as interesting as Picasso, Miro, and Man Ray. BTW, Man Ray needs a Simon Bio!

[@geraldfriend256]

Imho most famous and genius types are rarely nice or gracious people.

[@surlygirly1926]

Robert Giles: I agree - his artistic skills were not that evolved. In fact, the "Basket of Bread" is prosaically rendered, and highlights his lack of abilities in depth and texture. Dali is overrated, in no small part due to his preciously nurtured "eccentricities" ...proving the point that people will take one at their own worth. He was a self-made legend - as opposed to an organic legend that evolves on the strength of the subject, and not devised by the subject himself.

[@BillMcGirr]

What a load of horse crap... Dali’s later paintings like Virgin of Guadalupe, Hallucinogenic toreador, Rafealesqe head explosion, the ecumenical council, and Discovery of America by Columbus. Are simply put... MASTERPIECES. On par with the greatest artists in history. Dali was EASILY the greatest painter of the last century. Leaving his peers looking like children doodling in a coloring book.👍🤣

[@TheJosep70]

@@surlygirly1926 Hahaha sure...

[@robertgiles9124]

@mae comeaux So informed means "biased" and good to know how unbiased YOU are. Just look at the pretty pictures then and don't worry about what I think. Knowing something about how the artist lived matters to some people.

[@captainlubey]

This was so interesting, Dali is my absolute favourite artist. His art makes me feel some type of way, like staring into the abyss of time but finding comfort it in. Idek how to describe it. My favourite painting of his is the Metamorphosis of Narcissus.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:30 - Chapter 1 - Portrait of the young artist as a Portrait artist 4:35 - Chapter 2 - The art of confidence 5:55 - Chapter 3 - The secret of good art is artistry 7:50 - Chapter 4 - Paranoia & friends 10:35 - Mid roll ads 12:25 - Chapter 5 - Time keeps on slippin' 15:50 - Chapter 6 - Dali & his muse 17:05 - Chapter 7 - Things get out of hand 18:30 - Chapter 8 - Image & artist 20:30 - Chapter 9 - Things get weirder 22:00 - Chapter 10 - Salvadore CK 24:10 - Chapter 11 - The clock melts down

[@4thegospel]

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting on this one forever!

[@CosmicL407]

I wrote a research paper on his metamorphosis of narcissus. The connection he felt between his life and that myth is really on display in the painting.

[@danmoar94]

I've been to Figueres. It's a ghastly, soulless place. Apart from the Dalí museum, it has nothing going for it. It's a one horse town in which said horse wandered off to somewhere else out of sheer boredum.

[@ronr6450]

"Still freasher than anything served at the Olive Garden" Awesome.

[@glennrugar9248]

This dude was simultaneously a genius and a lunatic. Anybody who's tried to draw the melting clocks knows what I mean. Picasso had nothing on this beautiful madman. Also simon killed it in this video and scripting was fantastic. That ending too. I've never simultaneously had chills while getting triggered. Bravo biographics.

[@sharylforster3870]

Love love love Dali museum in Saint Petersburg…. Brilliant in one hundred strokes 😊

[@nicksalvatore5717]

Shows how genius Alfred Hitchcock was as a director. Dali and his works were true representations of a dream state.

[@matthewb8229]

While I am not the most intuitive individual, I get a strong feeling that Salvador Dali is Simon's favorite artist. It's just a hunch, mind you.

[@michellebowers8652]

I have been to the Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain. Probably the most amazing art museum I have ever been to, and I’ve been to a few! There is also a small museum with his works of art in jewelry. I had never heard of them before seeing them in person and was stunned by them.

[@darius5396]

This is one of the most funniest stories you've presented. 👏👏👏👏

[@kellyhiggins4234]

Isn't it odd how he and Van Gogh' both lived in the shadow of death from mothers who suffered from loss of there infants ..

[@MsValeriaHeart]

Both crazy ladies too. As a woman I’d never do that.

[@indoororchidsandtropicals358]

The clocks aren't melting. They are SOFT, which takes on a whole new meaning.

[@Scarlet.L.A.]

Right!

[@bangkokdangerous2507]

"he wasnt just being precious"

[@nekrovulpes]

Who has time for editing when you're shitting out 15 videos across 12 channels per day?

[@bangkokdangerous2507]

Lord Vermintide probably the team of 15 whose soul job it is to edit these videos

[@bangkokdangerous2507]

but ur right i wouldnt wanna be doing that

[@dshe8637]

'His relationship with his father was rocky'- I see what you did there

[@lindainglis8506]

George Orwell wrote an insightful essay on Dali. Fascinating art, hideous life.

[@lotarrrrr]

I've been at his house in Spain, a strange place....

[@JCO2002]

I spent a week in Cadaques in 1973. Beautiful little town.

[@rhysjames5856]

I have now watched every biographics and geographics video. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

[@ZenFuKid]

Wow! That was fabulously awesome! I learned more about Dali watching this than I ever did in school. Thank You!

[@ilkeadrall710]

Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, childhood in Cadaqués too. There is something very important. Those small towns are in a area where tramontane blowns even though extremely heavy. As their own inhabitats claim, that wind "touches" their heads. Original idioms: Tocats per la tramuntana (touched by the tramontane).

[@shesaknitter]

Salvador's older brother was also named Salvador.

[@sussekind9717]

I live in St. Petersburg, FL, home of the Dali museum. I go every 6 months or so, as art work gets moved around from other museums and private collections. The man was a gifted surrealist, no mushrooms required.

[@lagitanavderoscio]

Excellent! You painted a better portrait of Dali than Dali did!

[@why2goatdagame]

Jesus! Now I can never look at his art the same way again! I have several reprints... SOAB 🥺

[@MsValeriaHeart]

I feel the same.

[@lonehawkwhitlock1310]

Salvadors nap time was him holding a spoon between thumb, pointer and middle finger. As he nodded the weight of the spoon would be pulled by gravity and his hand becoming relaxed the spoon would fall, hit the floor and Dali would wake and get back at his tasking.

[@joek7762]

Excellent bio! Dali' is my favorite artist! We went to the Salvador Dali' Art Museum in St. Pete's, Fla in 2018! It had hundreds of pieces of his works! That was so surreal!

[@henriqueoliveira3872]

you're a very good seller and a great host Simon. Congrats! Love your multiple channels!

[@chiyohanson4332]

I met a guy who apprenticed with him. He was really good. Not a genius like Dali. Dali was weird, but a genius.

[@zzzyzzzyzzzyxxx]

Most informative though that bit where he tosses an anteater around made me feel uncomfortable and sad.

[@sailinbob11]

I'm sure a handler was right off stage. He tossed it around, but they have wicked claws,and you don't want one latching on to you. That said,shouldn't have used it for a prop. A umbrella would have done. It's Dali... Everyone would have expected the umbrella to do something. It was a different time. That anteater is probably still alive.

[@deathbyastonishment7930]

robert caldwell a handler? It was his pet! He took it on walks around the city

[@--enyo--]

A story with sexual assault but it's the anteater that makes you uncomfortable and sad.

[@sailinbob11]

@@--enyo-- well said,guess Trump has desensitized me ,regardless of the "Me Too" movement. For that,I apologize, I was focused on the statement, not the overall content of the peice. He was incredibly talented, but flawed,in a despicable way. Thanks for bringing me back to the most important part of the subject. Gives me more to consider, if I ever get to the museum. Peace !✌

[@conspiracycornerpodcast4302]

That's why he lived back then, not now. SJWs would have his head on a platter right now.

[@Dekko-chan]

At the end i imagine he would have said “it was fun” Its what i would have said after looking through his works

[@prackk]

He said, "if Dali ever remarked on the irony of dying in the building that birthed him as an artist, it wasn't recorded." How would he be able to remark on the irony if he was dead??? lmao

[@lindseystein9676]

I love Dali. He was my favorite artist when I was in high school. He has such an interesting story also.

[@maggiemae5582]

@Mantorras Montquilla i just made a similar remark

[@xx_blasphemer_xx8148]

Hero!

[@leighprice8822]

Simon Whistler, the ultimate sponsor deliverer.

[@pamelamays4186]

Epic moustache meets epic beard. 🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔

[@carrieanderson132]

The painting of the bread so good....it would be a shame if someone ate it!

[@bronxer78]

“That painting is over ninety years old and yet fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden❗️” 😂

[@TwoRavensMinis]

This is so awesome! I was looking for this video a couple of days ago, and wondered why it wasn't made yet, but you obviously read my mind. This made my evening. Thank you! 😁👍

[@yetanotherjohn]

Great video! The painting of a basket of bread is quite surreal, as it is an everyday object presented without context, almost like a "ready-made" by Duchamp. We must also consider that much of Dali's iconography is distinctly Catholic, and so the bread is also the Body of Christ.

[@J.Street.48]

5:55 that just looks like a Fleetwood Mac album

[@mavikartal7775]

Finally someone interesting

[@arturoarambula2814]

Wow Everytime I see or read anything about Dali I'm amazed. Him and El Greco are the greatest of all time

[@lorrainelittlewood6651]

Hi Simon, can you please do a biographic of Gustav Klimt. I am such a fan of his work.

[@maheshsood9739]

Welcome good to see Simon back

[@raymondpilarczyk2773]

Simon doing his own art in words devoid of Dali's meaning but as subject matter for a variety of colorful assumptions

[@mgithaiga1]

Simon Whistler should be the only person hosting VisualPolotiks

[@TeamQuigley]

Tried to bring my mum to the Dali museum in Florida but it was not very handicapped accessible. So disappointing but still worth a trip for those who can walk through it.

[@wernerdupisani9305]

I am not strange. I am just not normal.- Dali