I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Many say that I,  Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, am one of the greatest artists representing the surrealist movement and the art in the 20th century. Although I am flattered, of course, many also do not understand the concept. My most famous art piece- The Persistence Of Memory. To begin, you need to understand surrealism itself. It is not just a style of art.  Although some may think  Surrealism  is just another art form, it's actually a cultural movement that was expressed through art, literature, and even politics.                                Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of the Civil War)  World War 1 had a profound effect on Europe, and many people believed that the war was a result of excessive rational thought. Artists of this belief were known as  Dadaists , and they embraced chaos and the irrational. Surrealism develo...

Not to boast, but as it is a general knowledge to know who I am, most if not all educated people have seen a photo of me at least once. And one of the ways people recognize me most easily, in addition to my facial features- is my thin but prominent mustache. You might ask, how did I establish this kind of look for myself?  Well, it hasn't always been that way- not since I had started to grow facial hair at least. I never liked the concept of a beard- just think how I would look on me... Hard to imagine, right? It is even present in my most iconic photo! At the end of the 1920s or beginning of the 1930s, I grew a   "Menjou beardlet" , which was popular at that time   – and called it "the smallest mustache of the world". I kept   this kind of mustache until the end of the 1930s.                                                  ...

If you are avidly interested in photography, you surely must have heard of the  Dalí Atomicus, shot by dear friend Philippe Halsman  in 1948. In it is me, of course, a bucket of water, three cats in the air and suspended furniture floating around.  Before we settled on the idea for this iconic photo, my first idea was to have a duck blown up with dynamite for it. Of course, in the end it turned out Halsman opposing this was a good action because in the end, it took us 26 attempts at getting the perfect shot.  For each take, Halsman’s assistants—including his wife, Yvonne, and one of his daughters, Irene—tossed the cats and the contents of a full bucket across the frame. After each attempt, Halsman developed and printed the film while Irene dried off the cats. It took some intense preparation to get there, too. Halsman was always focused on reflecting the people's nature in his photos. He always said that this was especially difficult with me, with the ...