DALI
Figueres where, upon the walls,
the turds look down on melting time
and spindled legs throw unseen shadows.
A place where breasts are touched
by sinewed hands
and tigers claws reach down on naked form.
The man himself hallucinating,
handlebared and Gala led
with showmanship his repertoire.
A master of the avant garde,
for me the master of them all.
Michael Edwards © March 2017
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- Comment from author about the poem: First an apology as I have already posted this as part of Brians fusion poem. However for three reasons I decided to post it again here: .........(1) I have an ebook on this site and wanted this to be included in it..........(2) there was no facility to alter it once it was posted as part of the fusion and there were a couple of alterations I wanted to make..........(3) I think it works much better in four stanza format rather than the one stanza required as part of the fusion.
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I have visited most of the art galleries in the major cities throughout Europe and beyond and of all the galleries I would ever wish to revisit is Dali's Gallery in Figueres. For me he is the only artist who can combine photorealism with a totally abstract thought process - Surrrealism. You can keep Rafael, Monet, Constable et al - as a practising artist I just love his work above all others. And another of my paintings.
Good write. Dali was a very influential artist but nobody could approach his dynamism.
Like the painting the fusion of the object with the background is super.
Thanks Goldfinch - who else but Dali could even think about painting a superb photorealistic and very serious portrait where the subject has a rasher of bacon on her head - or long legged elephants in a sea of ants - or any of the subjects alluded to in the poem above.
Wow. Every interesting Michael. Great artwork, as well.
Thank you WBL - I do appreciate your comments and, by the way, I can't keep calling you WBL (hope you don't mind) as shorthand for Writebelight but both are a bit clumsy, is there a more friendly name I can use?
No. You do not have to say anything Michael. That is fine. 🙂
Thanks MICHAEL ~ for bringing DALI out of FUSION and into mainstream. His perception is unique (extra-terrestrial !) so consequently so is his art. Oft imitated ~ never equalled. A fair price for a Dali original is always in Millions (GB pounds). I liked that you illustrated an excellent tribute to Dali with one of your own fusion paintings. A true Artist has confidence in his own art ! Thanks for caring & sharing ~ BRIAN
Thanks so much Brian - so pleased that you were happy for me to pop it into 'mainstream' and grateful , as always, for your very kind words.
great move Michael a wonderful post I would have otherwise missed. thank you great painting as well! ww
My pleasure Willy
Great painting, great write. I keep saying that about your work, but it must be true. Don't know much about Dali, except his melting clocks thing, so I cannot comment on a lot of what is in this poem. However, the way in which the idea of his mastery is presented along with your own work is superb. Terrific stuff, opened us up to Dali just a bit more. Well done. - Phil A.
Really pleased you enjoyed it Phil. To explain a tad further - the turds are blob like structures which he plastered around the external walls of his museum, the melting time refers to the clocks, the spindly legs are the elongated legs of elephants which featured in many of his paintings, - and that's just the first stanza. You will see much of his work by simply googling him in Google Images.
Thank you for your explanation about Dali's painting. I do admire his work, although I don't understand it and besides by knowledge of painting is null. I have to admit you did a great job portraying your favorite painter. As always you come through so well that it is a pleasure to read your poems.
Thanks RR - I think one of the points about his work and abstract art is that there is nothing to understand - it is entirely up to the viewer to interpret them howsoever the viewer wishes. I always give titles with no meaning to my abstracts so as not to distract the viewer.
You described Salvadore to a T. I prefered some of his tamer pieces like the ship powered by butterflies. And I loved the way he could draw/paint water. I believe many of us left to our imagination could imagine what a child's head taken over by ants but he could not only conceive and construct but add the twist of the child smiling with his head on a pedestal. Nicely done.
He was a true genius - thanks Augustus.
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