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@hiddengardenflowerdance

8 ай бұрын

Do you have any comments about the smaller creature seemingly attaching itself, or perhaps becoming separate from the body of the larger beast, on the left? I was always curious about it because it is notably quite distinctly liminal, in that, it is in the process of becoming either one with the larger creature or a being of its self, making the painting in fact have two subjects. It could look as if it were clinging onto the leg, making an effort to slow the beast's rage?

@Tod_oMal

8 ай бұрын

Well, Marx has transformed the world, but for the worse. I don't know if that counts.

@Levittchen4G

8 ай бұрын

You have to be a little more direct when you say your conclusions to this wonderful essay. This is sadly not a time for subtle hints. Say it as it is: The westernized world that is referred to as free like Europe, Canada and the US, but also countries all over the world are transforming into ways that are decidedly more right-wing. Like militairism, nationalism, moral panics (seeking scapegoats in the disadvantaged like imigrants, homeless), eugenics Best example for a not in-your-face eugenics program is Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada and the Netherlanda. Especially in canada, this service is mainly used by people because of poverty, disability (and lack of support that makes it possible to live integrated lives, people in mental turmoil). What he's referring to isn't: Putin is the new Adolf H or some fantasy like that (doesn't mean Putin aint a bad guy) Is my interpretation at least.

@alexsidney4796

8 ай бұрын

It doesn't. With Capital victorious almost everywhere I don't know what you mean by Marx transforming the world. It was the writings of Marx which actually pointed out just how much Capitalism was transforming world, to such an extent that 'all that is solid melts into air'. That's pretty transformative. @@Tod_oMal

@oxymoron136

8 ай бұрын

​@@hiddengardenflowerdanceI find your thought interesting, have had questions myself about the smaller creatures. Please share your thoughts

That's so interesting that the Fireside Angel's expression is described as being in pain. I thought it looked joyful and jubilant, as if it took great glee in stomping around causing chaos with its form and erratic movement. Even after it flattens everything in its path and there is nothing left, it continues to stomp across the land, its form ever-changing. The beast cares nothing about what it destroys, it only cares that it is the one who does it.

@susanpetropoulos1039

8 ай бұрын

Yes, glee, maniacal glee.

@alexsidney4796

8 ай бұрын

I think that's because the image is ambivalent. After all, their revolutionary energies are human energies and the fascists use them too.

@ayh1029

8 ай бұрын

Just a representation of one person I guess

@melody3741

8 ай бұрын

Its probably 100% because of its eye

@livinginahotdog1563

8 ай бұрын

Jkķ

You also have to admit it's a damn good creature design.

@juanb.m5753

8 ай бұрын

Imagine that shit as a final boss

@hi_mom_im_on_youtube

8 ай бұрын

souls games have been a disastrous cultural product that's been melting young men's brains for years now

@mynameistoohardtospell7195

8 ай бұрын

@@hi_mom_im_on_youtubereason?

@victorpedrosoceolin3919

8 ай бұрын

​@@hi_mom_im_on_youtubehow

@elijahmarshall475

8 ай бұрын

​​ @hi_mom_im_on_youtube It's ok, I can't get past the first boss either

To me the failure of Surrealism to stop fascism boils down to the limitations of art as a medium. It brings to mind Woody Guthrie's "this machine kills fascists" (written on his guitar). Art can inspire people to fight fascism, but at the end of the day its people who take risks and and engage in direct action, and in some cases throw themselves into the horrors of war. It doesn't happen in a safe and comfy (and probably upper-class) studio. Maybe I'm jaded but the best that art can achieve in a revolutionary sense is to be propaganda (ie inspire people to revolutionary action).

@alihenderson5910

8 ай бұрын

It failed because communism IS fascism, the 'radical' alternative they professed to want would have taken away their privileged existence. Champagne socialism, is the most egregious ideology.

@jordanestes1997

8 ай бұрын

Yeah kinda, for the most part. There's also just like, the cathartic element of it, the like, emotional resonance it can have can be healing, not really even change the world, but like, make someone feel less alone about the world changing, which is significant. But yeah nah, it's not a gun, or a shield, or a piece of legislation. It's just a tool for communication and story telling and shit, emotional connection and what not. Propaganda could be a word for it, but, I think it can be more subtle than that too, or, less subtle. Like, not emotionally manipulative, but more, emotionally cathartic ya know

@maht0x

8 ай бұрын

Reality is inherently Fascist

@Tekker2234

8 ай бұрын

​@@jordanestes1997Propaganda can be all of those things. It can be bold and brash just as much as it can be incredibly subtle. It can be made to induce calm or panic, happiness or anger, or really any other emotion just as much as any other kind of art. All art manipulates your emotions in that it at least tries to make you feel a certain way. The difference between propaganda and regular art (if you choose to define a difference) is often more in intent then it is the medium, subjects, style or emotions that the pieces evoke. Although, as the original commenter stated, all art can ultimately do is to spread ideas and emotions, it is up to the people to act on the messages they receive.

@jordanestes1997

8 ай бұрын

@derekkeire9954 I mean your kind of implying that art is supposed to make you feel a certain way, that the artist gives a fuck how you feel about it, I don't think all political art is doing that. Some people don't give a fuck how you feel and just want catharsis

also note how the "angel" is actually posing and shaped as a whole Hakenkreuz. It is literally representing the rise of fascism and it's just overall an incredible work of art. I highly suggest looking into Max Ernst's vast variety of works, he was truly an incredible artist

@maureenok

8 ай бұрын

Omg I totally missed that. I was so focused on the little details. I guess that's exactly the point too.

@tanishnaidu

8 ай бұрын

That is not a swastika. What you're referring to is a German Hakenkreuz. A swastika is a Hindu religious symbol that means well-being or good luck.

@flaneur2366

8 ай бұрын

@@tanishnaidu I'm very sorry about that. In italian we still refer to it with its original (and stolen) name. I will edit the original comment!

@tanishnaidu

8 ай бұрын

@@flaneur2366 no problem man, thanks for changing it.

@trvst5938

8 ай бұрын

Bud that is literally a swastika no matter how you wanna twist it.

Every video you make is like a mini Art Appreciation class. I absolutely love your stuff. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and knowledge.

@TheCanvasArtHistory

8 ай бұрын

Aww thank you for your really sweet comment!

@Leo-mu8kn

8 ай бұрын

​@@oxymoron136can you be more pretentious

@oxymoron136

8 ай бұрын

​@@Leo-mu8kni misreplied, sorry. Deleted the reply. But yes, I could be more pretentious, if you wanted me to. ❤

The ideology of surrealism may have died, but it's artistic influence was great and can be seen today in modern art as well as advertising.

I've also heard the title translated as The Angel of Hearth and Home -- one of the roots of Fascism. Ernst said that an inspiration for his art was creatures he saw in wood grain -- e.g. in the headboard of his bed when he was a child. That inspiration is clear in the angel.

@CharlieQuartz

8 ай бұрын

This story is pleasing to me because I never saw the original title as ironic. The image is incredibly apt for the modern interpretation of angels.

@gibsonraymonda

8 ай бұрын

Angel means messenger in Hebrew.

@jaschabull2365

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of how my mother always said she couldn't stand walls with wood grain because they always looked like freaky faces to her.

@bilbobaggins5938

8 ай бұрын

@@gibsonraymonda Angel comes from Greek, not Hebrew.

@gibsonraymonda

8 ай бұрын

@@bilbobaggins5938 And what did the Greek word translate? Malak.

I love this painting so much. I remember at the 2019 Biennale of Venice there was an artist who did a version of this painting on a led fan (if i remember correctly), that thanks to the rotation reproduced the creature actually moving and dancing, like it was animated. I didn't knew the original painting back then, and when I searched more about it I understood the new version more: history is cyclic, it moves circularly just like the fan, and the same feelings and fears that Ernst tried to represent with his original painting are now returning, especially in Europe. Thank you very much for this video!

@horttulfnexo

8 ай бұрын

Cyprien Gaillard is the name of the artist you mean

@tommyorigani2867

8 ай бұрын

@@horttulfnexo thank you!

@wtfduud

8 ай бұрын

This one kzread.info/dash/bejne/h42G0rqEqrjfg8o.html

As a mass of orbs with various lizard claws protruding from my main section, I deeply appreciate you taking the time to talk about absurdism.

@qwopiretyu

8 ай бұрын

Relateable

At a time when fascism is rising in full force in my country India, this video essay kind of echoes the lessons I learnt in school about fascism and its features.

@yuchitairans2-035

8 ай бұрын

sending love and solidarity from singapore ❤❤

@restlesssheep2453

8 ай бұрын

I'm also an Indian and comments like yours give me some amount of hope. Fascism is rising in my country and videos like these are my comfort video.

@elexios6208

8 ай бұрын

It always nice to see indians see the rise of fascism and authoritarianism in india. seems something at least in the west you dont see being seriously reckoned with by those in or from india

@rameshdevasi6720

8 ай бұрын

still better then muslim and christians fascism

@thecagedguitarist

8 ай бұрын

suji hai?

Stunning... but I cannot look at this without seeing a joyful, triumphant evil, disorganized, disheveled, but treacherously bounding, narcissistically, dancing over the landscape, entitled and completely ecstatic... that lack of awareness will be its downfall...all things unknowingly seeking balance there is some hope. Stay well, mon ami.

@FloatingInDisgrace

8 ай бұрын

Yeah what this person said :)

@williamchamberlain2263

8 ай бұрын

Ah, French word-salad; for when you need that _extra_ level of vacuous pretension.

@hi_mom_im_on_youtube

8 ай бұрын

lol you're so pretentious it gives me a headache

@Tekker2234

8 ай бұрын

I have no idea what point you were trying to make here but you certainly used a lot of words to do it.

@Airthugger

8 ай бұрын

Pffft

I'm not surprised you and friend both independently chose this Ernst painting. _The Triumph of Surrealism_ might just be one of my favourite paintings of his. Being both obsessed with monsters and weird creature as long as I can remember, and having spent all my teen and adult life enamoured with contemporary artists, this picture is a pretty stellar candidate for everything that encapsulates what it is I love about art. As much as respect and owe a vast debt to art criticism and theory, my real passion is envisioning every art exhibition or gallery I go to as a kind of three dimensional bestiary. Perhaps even some imaginary ecosystem for life beyond the norms of reality. On a more sober note, it's absolutely appalling to realize just how relevant the paintings themes remain. Lately it feels like we're on the cusp on unleashing another imbecilic monster of collective bigotry and fascism upon ourselves.

So wish there are more art channels like this. A lot of art stuff out there have been hijacked by Jordan Peterson, who has a lot of fans of mostly "classical realist" artists; and various illustrators. There's this realist artist who drew a very flattering portrait of Peterson on his channel.

@TheCanvasArtHistory

8 ай бұрын

You won't see any Jordan Peterson on my channel anytime soon, don't worry!

@Germania9

8 ай бұрын

@@TheCanvasArtHistory Thanks! Though I do wish for at least one video exploring why Peterson is interested in art history; and why he has rabid fans among certain artists within the art and illustration scene. And what does that say about our current state of art. There has not been any criticism against Peterson regarding his infiltration into the art scene, beyond that he has a collection of Soviet-era art. Your videos on fascism and art might hint on why this happens.

@numbersix8919

8 ай бұрын

Ewwww.

@colindunnigan8621

8 ай бұрын

@@TheCanvasArtHistoryThank you. The guy is nauseating.

@dbrooke3629

8 ай бұрын

I follow Peterson but didn't know he was involved in art beyond, as you've said, his collection of USSR-era socialist propaganda. I'd be interested to hear from artists' perspectives and or learn about his impact (positive and negative) on the art community.

If it was a failure, What was the promise of surrealism?

@arielc7730

4 ай бұрын

The freedom of imagination. And fight fascism along the way

hearing about the political implications and it’s failures of surrealism is fascinating. you usually only hear about the movement’s connection to Freud’s psychoanalysis and the subconscious. but learning about its intended resistance to fascism add another layer of depth to an already rich art movement.

As an art student, your channel feeds my brain with the right information. Thank you for your effort, looking forward to the next video, as always.

To me the painting is obviously a figure lashing out in anger at it's loss. It's the literal figure of surrealism, throwing a tantrum at it's failure. I don't believe it to be a depiction of fascism, coursing across the land destroying everything, it feels both ironic and heartfelt in it's despair, to me it's Ernst' reaction, his anger against surrealisms inability to change anything.

@NeedMorePlebs

8 ай бұрын

How would a painting style change anything? That sounds ridiculous.

@hojosconsal9913

8 ай бұрын

​@@NeedMorePlebsyou need to start reading some art history

This also looks biblical. The colors and the flowing robe like fabric seeming. It reminds me of renaissance art depicting senes from that old book. It also reminds me of Goya. Saturn devouring his son.😊

@jrgrimm6091

2 ай бұрын

It reminds me most of Michelangelos, "The Torment of St Anthony"

I had never seen this before! Thank you so much for bringing it to light! Absolutely stunning

It's just incredible how you can tell from the very first glance that the "Angel" represents some form of authoritarian rule. For me, it made me think of the leviathan, this disgraceful beast draconically ruling over a multitude of people, shapes and voices, morphing them into something just as monstrous as itself. Absolutely bone-chilling.

@uboa8060

8 ай бұрын

I think it's because it just *looks* big and menacing compared to the flat horizon. Smart composition is at play

Ive always loved Ernst's work so Im really glad you made this, fantastic as always!

Amazing video, I learned a lot. Love learning about art history and this is one of the best channels for it!

I'm going to repeat myself, but thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. As a tech, I don't really have any skills on art, except the little I got on my own. Your videos are slowly filling that gap for me. Un grand merci à vous deux pour ce super boulot.

Nice piece, but...the photo of Max and the lady is in fact, Dorothea Tanning, not Peggy Guggenheim.

@TheCanvasArtHistory

8 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right! He'd marry tanning after Guggenheim. Sorry for the confusion!

@numbersix8919

8 ай бұрын

What what what? I see, Ernst met Tanning at Peggy's gallery, and they married soon after. And they had a charming life together.

always a treat. I'm dreaming of a residency with you. What a perfect space and setting. This year after 59 years of living a life of fear and doubt I simply don't care anymore what people think (probably a lie). I am an artist in spite of the lack of formal training. I don't have a library full of paintings. or even an organized photo album. I do have passion that seems unmatched. Every surface of my home has been touched by my hand - changed fixed manipulated made better. My shop is full of unrelated mostly unfinished paintings and sculptures. I work with any medium. I hate buying materials when the world is full of them for free. I've been trying to break through the fear and imposter syndrome forever. This is the year. In my creative world there is a population of 1. I'm the only creative I know. It would be horrifying to spend time with artists and their culture from my position. I'm willing to walk through that fire like never before. Thats where the joy is. The title of my autobiography will be "I want to paint a red stripe on a white wall" a reference to that one bold single stroke that makes the painting. I'm tired of trying to paint a straight line. The dollars and cents of it all may leave this in a wish column as I'm in life transition. Sometimes money rains from above - if so I'll be seeing you soon. Cheers and thank you.

@mayacaitlin4695

8 ай бұрын

You are a true artist!

Excellent video! I just wanted to add that the creature is a representation of Loplop, the alter ego of Max Ernest. What could be depicted here is the artist himself and the pain he experience at the realization that the surrealist project had failed. That's just my interpretation though.

Brilliantly done, and the parallels between the perils of Ernst's time, and our own, were deftly drawn.

Beautifully executed. This one brought a tear to my eye.

The Fireside Angel looks like Godrick the Grafted about to do his stomp in Elden Ring.

@QuickRime

8 ай бұрын

Yeah the resemblance is uncanny. I didn't know about this painting before but now I'm convinced it must have been an influence on Godrick.

@falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962

8 ай бұрын

@@QuickRime it makes sense, too. ER has a lot of references to Surrealist paintings, including Dali (Miquella's egg/cocoon).

@jankbunky4279

8 ай бұрын

Godrick absolutely does embody certain facist ideas too. He is highly devoted to replicating Godfrey and his reign (arguably similar to the third reich being a successor to the first and second?), he seems to prioritize military over all else and he literally absorbs people to become stronger. He is an ultimate icon of might = right, and the supremacy of the leader over his people. Now, I doubt this all was some calculated design choice, but it is interesting at the very least. I see that many people interperet the creature in the painting as either being very gleeful, or in pain. Of all bosses in Elden Ring, I think Godrick encapsulates both those emotions the best by far.

You're my favorite art channel btw, way to get me thinking about....like stuff outside the box and into....the absurd ❤

I adore your videos, I've noticed you are posting more lately. Congratulations keep going!

Great work man thanks very much❤

We have little to fear from art being banned or confiscated, because the machine is much more likely to neutralise it through commoditsation.

So love these essays

Really amazing commentary - thank you so much for contextualising. I find the process of titling (or leaving untitled) works of art. My thoughts about that ironic triumph of surrealism were around a sense of delving into the unconscious having unleashed a rough beast of hatred and destruction on the world. The Fireside Angel feels like it's a warning about the seeds of fascism - traditional comforts that we consider harmless, but allow an unimaginable montstrosity onto the world. Thank you for providing my art fix from home!!!

@jackquinn9535

8 ай бұрын

Great observation. We cannot but feel and agree this is the "true" and "deepest" meaning of Ernst's work. A point the otherwise well-thought, knowledgeable video missed alongside the above pointed fact that the depicted 'monster' is rather feasting in a sadistic glee, orgy of destruction than being in an explicit "pain". Very human/inhuman tendencies of subconscious origin fascism feeds and builds on.Thus its grotesque edifices, balancing the spectacle of aggression and violence with the coulisse of the idyllic family life and past retrieved.

Your captivating voice beautifully enhances the art.

Love this channel. Max Ernst is one of my all time favs. Another great Ernst is Europe after the Rain II (made half in Europe, half after having fled to USA) 🎨👨🏻‍🎨

Hey mate! I really like your videos (and actually use some of the paintings i learn about from you in my classes) and would really really really appreciate a video in the Kitchen sink painters!! I think they relate very well with your video on the Clif dwellers

The interesting part to me is the weird little drab critter on the left, who seems to be conjuring and controlling the monster

Does anyone know the music that is being played? I would love to hear more like it!

The evil angel is happy, not in pain. For it, chaos and destruction is beautiful.

Looks like a child who has made his monster beautiful.

So fascinating! I always saw the angel as dancing or blowing in the wind, and it's face as happy or sad.

That was an amazing video and the music gave it a great tone.

I saw Ernst’s ‘The Entire City’ at the Tate Modern in August 2022. Incredible effect on me … (And, incidentally, I would love to see a video on that particular piece of art).

Failure of surrealism? Our world seems to be getting more surrealistic, every day.

I found the video to be quite good! If I were to add something I'd like to say that, the first time you showed it on screen, it greatly reminded me of a kind of jester-like figure that taunts. It feels like it plays into that ironic title. Awesome painting.

The woman in the picture at 9’ is not Peggy Guggenheim, it’s Dorothea Tanning.

I adore this painting, the colours, the stance

Hmm... You can't judge the failure or the success of an entire international movement from one painting, nor even of a major historical event that the movement survives. Surrealism still exists and has done so consistently ever since the Manifesto (100 years ago next year). Surrealism can't be said to have failed until surrealism gives up, and it has been a consistent voice of opposition to totalitarianism through nazism and through Stalinism too. (I suggest you look at Svankmajer's The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia. If Ernst thought surrealism had failed in 1938, why did he remain in the movement until 1954 and even after that express solidarity with its aims? Perhaps it wasn't surrealism that failed, but the world? Maybe if, instead of just looking at surrealist painting, the world took surrealist ideas more seriously, we'd see something remarkable...

thank you, for, at the end, slipping out of past tense and into present

Love polyblank. Great to see some more collabs going on.

Hi! where can I download an HD version of this painting? must be nice to be a wallpaper

Max Ernst is one my favorite artists.

It looks like he picked up all his clothes off the floor and draped them over a tree to paint this, more reminiscent of a boogyman in the closet... but also kind of a joyous vibe of Native North American dancers.

Wow! Outstanding.

Does anyone knows the background music's title pls ? Great video once again btw

When I heard fireside I thought that it alluded to firebrand, and fascists rhetoric that fails to see the systemic issues in society and instead blames it on scapegoats, Hence the closed eye, screaming mouth and stomping foot

The Angel of the House is Dickens reference to mothers . 😊

@AntoniaPi-od4rf

Ай бұрын

Yes, and the image suggests that the bird is in pain (and/or delirious pleasure) in its reproductive parts - both in having its period, in having been violently abused, or in being the means by which blood is spilt grotesquely across the world.

After the first few sentences talking about how Surrealism was about revolution, I felt weird, because I never see anything about a revolution in Salvador Dali's or MC Escher paintings/murals. I just thought they were very peaceful and somewhat lonely. I felt a sort of tranquility and solitude in them. For me it succeeded in evoking something beautiful, and surreal. Now I know why, Escher was never part of the Surrealist movement, and neither was Dali.

There is no such thing as failure, Art is perpetual and Surrealism exists within our daily lives whether it is by your meaning or your other meaning, We can see it by our eyes but we don't pay attention to it.

Unfortunately, the monstrous forces it represents have never disappeared in our world.

Please do Jacob Jordaens "The Triumph of Frederik Hendrik" 1651 …really underrated artist 👨‍🎨 👍🏽

whats the violin song name? could you link them in comments in the future? :v

Right on dude.

what is the name of the music in the background

I have a beautiful original Max Ernst lithograph, which I bought for less than a dollar when I was about 12, in the early seventies. I asked my father if he could help me to get it framed. He took it and had it sealed and mounted on styrofoam, which at the time broke my heart. But at least the image has been beautifully preserved - I don't know if it can be restored. Copies of this lithograph have sold at auction, it doesn't appear to be tremendously valuable, but I still love it.

The interesting thing about Ernst's work, and that of later more abstract expressionists, is that it has no definite meaning. You can project what you want onto it. Personally i interpret this as having a different tone. For me it is an ecstatic dance of creative chaos, hinting at the artistic possibilities to come later in the century.

It honestly reminds me a bit of The Torment of Saint Anthony in the framing of the scene

love this painting

Could someone tell me the name of this music piece please? It is beautiful.

@frozenwilds1762

8 ай бұрын

Raincoat Waltz - Franz Gordon

It's a shame I haven't been in any exhibition for years now, even though it's right around me and often free. You made me realize what a fool I am. Thanks and greetings from Berlin, Germany.

Lovely way to start the morning

@TheCanvasArtHistory

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it :)

Andre Breton was such a cool dude. I never really tire of surrealist literature, I think it's almost more unprecedented than the visual side of the movement, given how outside the common functions of language it is.

Sigh, I admit that the other painting I thought of when I saw this was Dali's Premonition of Civil War. This is positively glowing with cosmic irony.

Yo! I hope you read this, I was hoping you could put music that you used in descriptions. They’re all really great pieces.

@frozenwilds1762

8 ай бұрын

Raincoat Waltz - Franz Gordon

Amazing video ❤

That's an Elder Ring boss if I've ever seen one

great painting

dawg can u please make a video about Mashina Tetsuya. Idk nothing about him but i would be happy if someone like you breakdown his paintings

What's the music?

2:39 Polyblank!! it’s nice to see this collab

The Renaissance's paintings want us back, and ceilings long for murals on their brow. Our ears would hear, eyes saw, and lungs would gasp; the human face where Life’s enjoyment’s found. I doubt the angels trail those private jets, but bow beside the modest soul who cries. A comfort frail and like the spider’s web- the twist is that it’s art which wet the eye! A painter’s wrist is touched by blest applause. An empty theater- that is boredom’s stare; the curse upon employees dreaming off. They’re oddly stringed without a puppeteer. And what if bored employees scanned this proof? instead of items factories produced.

omg my favourite painting

How can an art movement fail? It had it's time. It was significant enough for us to learn about in history books. Many people appreciate it's products. Many (if not all) art movements get entangled in to politics. And art holds no magical power over economy and politics. Political connotations can work in favor or against movements in art. In countries of the USSR, works of Pablo Picasso were recognized. Even though his art style worked against ideals in art, established by the communists.

What is the song in the background? It is haunting and devastating. Great video, as always!

This is the best video ever

It worked. Just took longer than expected.

The painting depicts horror. It was an expression of the artist’s soul - his sense of life. He was a sick man.

I think about that episode of Dali all the time....because it makes one reflect on one's own current beliefs...do we really believe what we say we believe, or are we just saying we believe what's easiest to believe at that moment in time on circumstances out of our control? What would we really believe if allowed to believe whatever we wanted? Rarely are the two ever the same.

Surrealism did not fail. Especially if we are still discussing it

It's why it's important to remember when looking at Dali art.....and he said it all the time " Quit taking me so seriously all the time" I think that's what the meaning behind his moustache....to remind people that sometimes he's just being absurd for the sake of being absurd and that perhaps dear sir, a little more absurdly is needed to suffer ones current reality, because rarely are they ever within our own control, circumstances being what they often really are, out of our control....and the mind being the one thing that actually is within that control. The two are rarely ever the same. For by embracing the absurd, the insanity of the world outside of ourselves be better persevered and channeled thus more profoundly with less pretense so it's still funny AF 6:39

this made me feel sad

I shall let Rimbaud, even still, rest his works within me and my heart

Please don't forget that Surrealism was also a literary, philosophical & even occult/spiritualist movement. & 40 years later Franco was being mentioned on Saturday Night Live.

i really thought the picture was about how our mind sees pareidolia in this hodge-podge of blankets and interprets it as an entity, which is kind of deliriously dancing in its triumph of breaking your mind

So cool

No mention of acephale?

I just can say respect man respect