Salvador Dali - Visionary Pioneer or King of the Sell-Outs?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

The man who the Surrealists, at first embraced, and later rearranged the letters of his name to spell "Avida Dollars (Greedy Dollars)" - what's your take?

[Mistra_Know_It_All]

1. A sell out sack of crap. Sure he was technically proficient but

give me Duchamp or Earnst or Man Ray any day

[mopinko]

2. how about

both?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Could be - and that would make him a REAL genius. To be true to your art

and be fabulously wealthy - doesn't sound so bad to me

[mopinko]

5. i don't really know all the facts

but i think he lost his mind in the end, and a lot of the people around him ripped off his work. so many of his reproductions were done without any input from or output to him.

[chenGOD]

6. exactly...

much like how people complain when they hear their favorite underground musican's music being played on a commercial.

"Oh my god I heard an Aphex Twin song being used in an anti-drug commercial, what a sell out!!"(the irony of an Aphex Twin song being used in an anti-drug commercial being, apparantly, too much for some people).
I know that everyone has the romantic idea of the starving artist, but folks, artists like to eat too.

Dali-best of both worlds. Creative genius whose fucked up mind reached a lot of people. Gotta love it.

[tuvor]

4. He seemed to have too much joie de vivre to be a sellout.

If he were, my feeling is that he probably would've lost his creative spark.

[eleonora]

7. I believe he was a great artist

and that's what he remains first and foremost.

[J-Lo Biafra]

8. Is that John Coltrane in your avatar?

:silly:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Nope it's Ben Vereen