Salvador Dali

Happy Birthday Salvador Dali!

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Arts News, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, The Persistence of Memory, Surrealism, Joan Miro, Art Birthday, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Arts News

Today is the birthday of everyone's favorite mustachioed surrealist painter, Salvador Dali. The eccentric Spaniard, who was a lover of all things gild...

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PHOTOS: If Moms Were Masterpieces

The Stir | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Mother's Day, Slideexpand, Jacqueline Burt, The Stir, Cafemom, The Scream, Mom Art, Salvador Dali, Edvard Munch, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Parents News

Who among us hasn't felt the way Edvard Munch's screaming figure looks? In fact, take a closer look and you might realize that some of the greatest masterpieces in Art History are just begging to be mommified ...

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Kusama In Wonderland

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Lewis Carroll, Children's Books, Yayoi Kusama in Wonderland, Illustrations, Salvador Dali, Yayoi Kusama, Alice in Wonderland, Yayoi Kusama Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Slidepollajax, Penguin Books, Arts News

"I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland." So begins Yayoi Kusama's visionary take on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", the iconic tale of a...

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Art in Provincial Culture

Bijaya Jena | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: V.S.Naipaul, Leo TolstoyFederico Garcia Lorca, Art, Gabriell Garcia Marquez, Bunuel, Culture, Salvador Dali, Arts News

Now that the world has become smaller with easy transport and instant communication, every city in the world looks the same. For this reason the government should retain the unique culture of its smaller towns.

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Dali's Big Sale At Sotheby's

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Printemps Necrophilique, Art Auction, Video, Art Value, Salvador Dali Auction, Art and Money, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Sotheby's, Max Ernst, Arts News

Salvador Dali's surrealist dreamscapes inspired the imaginations of millions; now it looks like the artist's wildest dreams are about to become a real...

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Worshiping at the Altars of Schiaparelli, YSL, Vreeland and Dali

Tara Solomon | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Dali Miami, Keni Valenti, Carlos Betancourt, Miami Around Town, Wynwood, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, Miami Society, Let Them Feel Pink!, Miami News

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Burn, Baby Burn!

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Rotganzen Melting Disco Balls, Disco Inferno, Melting Disco Ball, Rotganzen, Salvador Dali, Gloria Gaynor, Disco, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Arts News

"Burn, baby burn, disco inferno..." The Rotterdam-based artist collective Rotganzen has created some outta sight melting disco balls for those of u...

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Short Takes: Animated Masterpieces

Jane Chafin | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Art, Salvador Dali, Offramp Gallery, Bosch, Pablo Picasso, m.c.escher, Masterpieces, Animation, Video, Arts News

What happens when heavy metal meets Hieronymus Bosch?

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Oliver Vernon 'Tilts' Our Perceptions

Posted 03.03.2012

Read More: Art, Video, Oliver Vernon Tilt, Tilt, Oliver Vernon, David B. Smith, Salvador Dali, Perspective, David B. Smith Gallery, Contemporary Art, Surrealism, Slidepollajax, Arts News

The two extremes of artistic vision can create a vacuous, polarizing effect. Though gray areas abound, the push-and-pull between depicting reality and...

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PHOTOS: 7 Famous Homes Turned Museums

BootsnAll | Posted 03.21.2012

These house museums give us a sense of what life was like in a different period and a glimpse of what went into making artists, writers and great thinkers who they were.

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Footage From Dali's Out Of Control Dinner Party

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Dali Party, Video, Dali Dinner Part, Salvador Dali, Surreal, Dizzy Dali, Dali Video, Surrealism, Surrealist Art, Arts News

And you thought Marina Abramovic's MOCA dinner was crazy! Everyone's favorite surrealist known for his over-the-top mustache apparently could throw a...

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Alice in Wonderland Revisited

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Tate Liverpool - UK, Alice in Wonderland, Arts Exhibition, Lewis Carroll, Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Arts News

A journey through 150 years of one of the most imaginative sources of inspiration ever: Alice in Wonderland.

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New Woody Allen Comedy's Superstar Cast, Includes Himself

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page, Midnight in Paris, Salvador Dali, New Woody Allen Movie, Woody Allen, Nero Fiddled, Woody Allen Nero, Sony Pictures, Adrien Brody, Alec Baldwin, Scoop, Arts News

Many have said that Woody Allen's recent films just don't pack the same punch as they used to. Maybe that is because viewers are watching Allen's sign...

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Salvador Dali's Favorite Supermodel

Ben Arogundade | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Black Models, William Claxton, Kate Moss, Donyale Luna, Diana Vreeland, Lucien Freud, Salvador Dali, Paco-Rabanne-Dress, Vogue Magazine, Helmut Newton, African American Women, Jourdan Dunn, Andy Warhol, Art, Harper's Bazaar, Federico Fellini, Paco Rabanne, Black Beauty, Richard Avedon, African American Beauty, Damien Hirst, African Americans, First Black Supermodel, Hair & Beauty, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News

The renowned surrealist painter Salvador Dali's meeting with seminal African-American supermodel, Donyale Luna, at his hideaway in the Spanish fishing village of Cadaqués, Catalonia in 1966 marked an amazing moment where art and beauty collide.

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The Brain From Spain

George Heymont | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Culinary Foam, El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, Center Rep, Anthony Bourdain, Ferran Adria, Film, El Bulli, Culture Clash, Salvador Dali, A Weekend With Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso, Gereon Wetzel, Hebert Siguenza, Video, Arts News

Two recent productions examined how art is created through diametrically opposed techniques. In each case, the artist being showcased is of Spanish birth and international renown.

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Smile: An Interview With Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Plus Chatting With Andy Warhol Siren Ultra Violet and Boyz II Men Exclusive Clips

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.08.2012

Multi-Platinum selling Grammy Award winners, Boyz II Men, are bringing R&B back with their with their new double album, Twenty, which debuted in -- of course -- the Top 20 on the Billboard Top 200.

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Dali Apes Straightlaced Reporter

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Dali, Artist Interview, Surrealism, Dali Interview 1958, Dali Wallace Interview, Salvador Dali Interview, Salvador Dali, Dali Interview, Artist Talks, Video, Arts News

From his gravity-defying moustache to his enchantingly impenetrable accent, Salvador Dali is anything but easily understood. His eccentric personality...

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WATCH: When Great Artists Collaborate

Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Kanye West, Salvador Dali, Lady GaGa, Louis Vuitton, William Burroughs, Music Videos, Artist Duos, Tim Burton, Pt Anderson, Sonic Youth, Alfred Hitchcock, Jeremy Blake, Video, Takashi Murakami, Artist Collaborations, Video Art, Danny Elfman, Arts News

You know the saying: they go together like peanut butter and jelly... spaghetti and meatballs... Christian Louboutin and David Lynch. When two big bra...

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Edouard Manet, Kazimir Malevich, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Philip Scott Johnson, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Anders Zorn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Morphing, Animation, Henri Matisse, Arts News

New to us at HuffPost Arts, Philip Scott Johnson's "500 Years Of Female Portraits In Western Art" is intriguing in its ability to trace how representa...

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WATCH: Top Artists Of The 20th Century

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol Art, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Video, Jackson Pollock Art, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Top Artists of the 20th Century, Pablo Picasso Painting, Best Artists, Arts News

Here at HuffPost Arts, as art history nerds, we delight in sharing our passion with you and we hope the video below will be both informational for art...

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The 30 Harshest Artist-On-Artist Insults In History

flavorwire.com | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Funny, Artist Insults, Art, Takashi Murakami, Salvador Dali, Funny Videos, Leonardo Da Vinci, Flavorwire, Jasper Johns, UK Arts, Arts News

Our recent author-on-author, filmmaker-on-filmmaker and musician-on-musician insults have proved that creative folk are only human, and occasionally e...

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PHOTOS: Top Power Couples In The Arts

Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Video, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Lu Qing, Salvador Dali, Elaine De Kooning, Gala Dali, Ai Weiwei, Lee Krausner, Arts News

In this slideshow below, we look at seven art super-couples, historical and current, in all of their glory. We've got Pollock and Krasner, the Dalis, ...

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"Put on a Hairy Face"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Stamford Advocate, Humor, Salvador Dali, Brooklyn, Robert Goulet, Queens, Lawyer, Hair, New York City, Gin, Nevada, Bartender, College, Beards, Tv, Artist, Father, Jail, Mustaches, Barbershop, Stamford, Reality Show, Comedy News

As runner-up in the 2010 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Contest -- a defeat I took with grace, humility and, of course, a stiff upper lip -- I know what it's like to lose by a whisker.

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WATCH: Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock!

Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock Birthday, Goodfellas, Rear Window, Hitchcock Birthday, Grace Kelly, Vertigo, Psycho, Salvador Dali, North by Northwest, The Lady Vanishes, Film, Suspicion, UK Arts, Movies, Arts News

On August 13, we celebrate the memory of Alfred Hitchcock, who was born on this day in 1899. If he were as immortal as his films, this would make him ...

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