2023-06-20 08:09:00
“You’ve probably already heard of this man, but did you know that he was an admirer of a certain very famous mustachioed gentleman between 1939 and 1945?” was the question that user Marie Guerineau launched among her followers on her social network account, with 75,000 subscribers, next to the face of the surrealist painter.
In the publication entitled “The truth regarding Salvador Dalí”, the user thus describes the fascination of the painter from Figueras with Hitler and even dwells on a letter sent to André Breton in 1935, in which Dalí describes Hitler’s National Socialism as an absorption of his movement, surrealism.
The article in the French newspaper explains that Dalí did not hide his sympathy for the dictator (whom he sometimes represented in some of his paintings), and points out that the youngest are now discovering these facts with bitterness: “For the new generations, the magazine explains, the artist has long been considered a kind of standard bearer of kitsch,” he says.
“I can’t look at his work without thinking regarding all the horrible things he did and the way Hitler painted,” Hanna wrote, a TikTok user with a passion for art, in the description of a video in which she was asked to create a pair of earrings inspired by the artist’s work.
Dalí was excessive, provocative and a lover of controversy in life: he made incendiary statements and decorated his residences with stuffed animals, such as a bear, a horse and a giraffe.
In this way, to the already classic accusations of filo-fascism that have traditionally been launched once morest the surrealist paintersocial media activists are now accusing him of two others: sexism and animal cruelty.
“The fact that this guy continues to be taught as an art hero is beyond me,” wrote an art teacher and amateur popularizer Sarah Dipity on her Tok Tok social network account.
According to the Figueras Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, in response to the newspaper Le Figaro, “Some of the personal aspects that stand out regarding Dalí have been extracted from ‘The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí’ (1942) which, as is well known, is a fictionalized autobiography in which Dalí writes that he fabricates false memories».
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