Dali, The Birth of Liquid Desires, 1935 Chest of drawers stand in for the human body, the blob is handing the central hermaphrodite a baguette, another man is exploring a cave that may be a metaphor for a womb  Exploration of sexuality  Paranoiac-critical method; something Dali developed. The idea was that he could, as a sane person, could cultivate the ability to think like an insane person by purposefully misinterpreting events

Dali, The Birth of Liquid Desires, 1935

  • Chest of drawers stand in for the human body, the blob is handing the central hermaphrodite a baguette, another man is exploring a cave that may be a metaphor for a womb 
  • Exploration of sexuality 
  • Paranoiac-critical method; something Dali developed. The idea was that he could, as a sane person, could cultivate the ability to think like an insane person by purposefully misinterpreting events
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artwhat.

during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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