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@charlesdegaulle7327

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the subtitles on the video

@winterroll5255

4 жыл бұрын

make visualpolitic EN content man

@GrxndDxD

4 жыл бұрын

@@winterroll5255 111

@chrisnicholls445

4 жыл бұрын

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

@anilkumarmuppirala1564

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@theprogramshow8816

4 жыл бұрын

Sweeet

@brianspenst1374

4 жыл бұрын

My favorite Dali quote.

@monkeydank7842

4 жыл бұрын

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

@wilfridwibblesworth2613

4 жыл бұрын

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

@MiscMitz

4 жыл бұрын

@@wilfridwibblesworth2613 lol.

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

@woodyjones5725

4 жыл бұрын

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

@the_original_Bilb_Ono

3 жыл бұрын

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

@therearenoshortcuts9868

3 жыл бұрын

@Julian Palmer E for Effort lol

@juststop9379

3 жыл бұрын

"I hate ethnicities" - Salvador Dali

@goyoelburro

Жыл бұрын

You know you are quoting a fascist, yes? 😂

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

@treyi345

4 жыл бұрын

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

@pandapotato1617

4 жыл бұрын

He’s not wrong

@jbuechler2476

4 жыл бұрын

The truth hurts!

@Texassince1836

4 жыл бұрын

What in the business blaze is going on here

@azure7687

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahhahahahaha olive garden hahahahaha soooooo funny ahahahahaaa the garden ahahahahahaahaaa

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

4 жыл бұрын

That was Picasso

@gavfitzpatrick

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Gunners_Mate_Guns

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Z4J3B4NT

4 жыл бұрын

Fun "fact"

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

4 жыл бұрын

Yikes.

@reneebarger5194

4 жыл бұрын

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

@oleum5589

4 жыл бұрын

Same as Vincent Van Gogh

@ewestner

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

So was Hitler

@DB-MH11

3 жыл бұрын

Great little story... thanks

@alexlopez5800

2 жыл бұрын

So was mark Zuckerberg

@dallastexas5653

2 жыл бұрын

So was Kanye west

@WisdomTooth1987

2 жыл бұрын

Did he sell it later?

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

@katherinek2709

4 жыл бұрын

I think we had that same book haha

@djquinn11

3 жыл бұрын

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

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!

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

@Texassince1836

4 жыл бұрын

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

@skyden24195

4 жыл бұрын

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

@RickReasonnz

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to SimonTube

@audiosurfarchive

4 жыл бұрын

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

@hoonterofhoonters6588

4 жыл бұрын

I for one, welcome our anglo accented overlord.

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jegeriufanen4415

4 жыл бұрын

Gerald Friend what

@lauriekrebs4522

3 жыл бұрын

Poor Dali my ass.

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

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.

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

Dali: one of history's most creative troll.

@conspiracycornerpodcast4302

3 жыл бұрын

Most def

@llamasaurwithabiscuit5690

3 жыл бұрын

He does a minimal amount of tomfoolery

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

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

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

@flowertrue

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

4 жыл бұрын

Little Fredericton is so lucky to have these paintings.

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

@SegwayBossk

4 жыл бұрын

Never put that together but now I totally see it

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!!

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

@surlygirly1926

4 жыл бұрын

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

@maltschlitzman8412

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@bluechicken4866

4 жыл бұрын

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 KZread!

@jakeweberzwier8655

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MsHeartIsArt

3 жыл бұрын

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

@420happyhippy

3 жыл бұрын

After seeing this comment, I excitedly paused this, searched the title, and supringingly found the entire short film in full right here on KZread 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....

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.

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

@MrDUneven

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrDUneven what 😂

@booradley0x0

4 жыл бұрын

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

@GrimpakTheMook

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Simon, you are one of the most professional, likeable, funny and easy to listen to people on KZread. 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!

His moustache aldo defied gravity

@bretthess6376

4 жыл бұрын

His moustache was named Aldo?

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

The paintings?

@dreasmom2789

4 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Dali feel the same?

That Olive Garden quip was priceless! Love it.

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.

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.

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

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! 😁👍

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

Who hasn't been through a nuclear mysticism phase?

@kylesteele4876

4 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

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

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.

Thank you! Been asking for this for 2 years

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.

00:13 The melting clock is a well-known image in the modern canon, inspiring jokes in everything from The Simpsons to Looney Tunes. It represents either the impermanence of time or the melting of cheese. Early Life 01:43 Dali was a shy and introverted child who spent his time playing around the rocky coast of Cadaqués, Spain. He would later paint a portrait of his brother, who died at the age of 2 shortly before Dali was born. 02:14 Dali's paintings of alien, rocky shores and washed-out beaches are the result of his days spent wandering around the tide pools in Cadaqués. 02:58 Dali's sleeping head figure is rumored to have been inspired by a fallen boulder, which he imagined as some fantastical monster cowering over in the fetal position. 03:24 Salvadore Dali's father was an ardent supporter of his son's artistic development, paying for books of Impressionist paintings and personal tutors, and even arranging a gallery showing for his 17 year old son. However, it would be Dali's controversial art which drove his parents apart. College 04:31 Salvador Dali was shy in school and considered bad with girls, but he would resolve this trait with sufficient fame. 05:35 When Dali failed to graduate from art school, he cultivated an image of an eccentric dandy, dressing in stockings and knee-breeches like a lesser aristocrat waiting in line at the guillotine. Art School 06:07 Art school kids remain unchanged across history and geography, with the notable exception that the weirdly dressed art school dropouts you know never went on to become Salvador Dali. Dali's work is that good, and his paintings are still fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden.

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

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

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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!

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.

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 ..

@MsHeartIsArt

3 жыл бұрын

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

I've been binging your biographies and geographic channels for the past two weeks. I think I've caught up.

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

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

@JCO2002

4 жыл бұрын

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

Thanks for this!

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

@sailinbob11

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@--enyo--

4 жыл бұрын

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

@sailinbob11

4 жыл бұрын

@@--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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

Welcome good to see Simon back

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.

"our boy Salvador" hahaha Love it

holy moly that backblaze stuff sounds amazing

absolutely enjoyed this

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

"he wasnt just being precious"

@lordvermintide4441

4 жыл бұрын

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

@bangkokdangerous2507

4 жыл бұрын

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

@bangkokdangerous2507

4 жыл бұрын

but ur right i wouldnt wanna be doing that

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@surlygirly1926

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@surlygirly1926 Hahaha sure...

@robertgiles9124

3 жыл бұрын

@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.

Such a great show very well do ive always enjoyed your videos

Love the work sir,

Can't wait to watch this later !

Good job. Keep up the good work.

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

My favorite painter, loved this short bio on him

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

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

@Scarlet.L.A.

3 жыл бұрын

Right!

Incredible. Well done

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

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.

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

Great video!!!!

That painting is over 90 years old, and it's still fresher than anything served at the Olive Garden. Haha.

Perfect timing! I’m currently painting a landscape with a blood lake and bleeding trees lol

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

@MsHeartIsArt

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same.

Product promotion on point as always

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

Great piece

Thanks Simon. According to S. Dali, Perpignan railway station is " El centre del Mon".

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

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).

Thanks. That's quality stuff.

Great. Thks

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

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.