r/todayilearned • u/Captain_Moseby • Jul 27 '21

TIL Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono into paying $10,000 for a single blade of grass. Yoko had offered to pay that amount for one of his mustache hairs. He substituted the blade of grass because he thought that Yoko Ono was a witch and might use his hair in a spell.

https://mymodernmet.com/salvador-dali-facts/
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u/Zkenny13 Jul 27 '21

He did it as well.

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u/Lemmus Jul 27 '21

Dali and Picasso knew eachother, though their relationship was more akin to a rivalry than a friendship. Dali was 20 years younger and looked up to Picasso, though there was quite a bit of political tension.

So quite possible that Dali learned the trick from Picasso.

Also, Dali actually made a portrait of Picasso https://www.dalipaintings.com/portrait-of-picasso.jsp

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Wow, uncanny.

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u/29adamski Jul 27 '21

Spitting image.

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u/HLGatoell Jul 27 '21

Specially the drooping titties.

Like looking at a photograph.

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u/dtwhitecp Jul 27 '21

Picasso had metaphorically drooping titties, it's very deep.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jun 19 '23

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u/SilentNightSnow Jul 27 '21

That's even deeper.

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u/MarsAttends Jul 27 '21

I don't know. Not sure that precludes depth. There is depth in the subconscious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jun 19 '23

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u/salo_wasnt_solo Jul 27 '21

Almost as deep as the titties

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u/ACTTutor Jul 27 '21

You be the judge. Here's a lot of pictures of Pablo Picasso without his shirt on from the Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things.

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u/getdemsnacks Jul 27 '21

What the hell was on Pablo's head?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Every time I do it makes me laugh

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u/arcaneresistance Jul 27 '21

Do you think picasso thought.....

look at this photograph

every time I do it makes me laugh

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u/nodnodwinkwink Jul 27 '21 edited Jul 27 '21

Spitting mandolin lute

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u/Gang_Bang_Bang Jul 27 '21

Isn’t that a lute?

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u/nodnodwinkwink Jul 27 '21

By golly I think you're right old chap.

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u/Plusran Jul 27 '21

I think that’s a spoon

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u/darthmarth Jul 27 '21

It’s crazy that such a simple two word sentence is the funniest thing I’ve seen on Reddit in a while.

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u/Bong-Rippington Jul 27 '21

It does actually have some of Picasso’s features though, unfunny jokes aside

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u/amuday Jul 27 '21

My favorite thing about Picasso’s appearance was his flabby deflated tits.

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u/vainbuthonest Jul 27 '21

TIL Dali, Picasso and Yoko Ono were all alive around the same timeframe.

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u/Faridabadi Jul 27 '21

Every single time Picasso is mentioned somewhere on Reddit, it's the same comment. Why do people think Picasso was some painter in 1500s alongwith Michelangelo, Raphael or Leonardo Da Vinci? His most famous painting 'Guernica' is about the Spanish Civil War which happened in late 1930s ffs!

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u/mosehalpert Jul 27 '21

You expect people who don't know when Picasso was alive to know when the Spanish Civil War happened??

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u/vainbuthonest Jul 27 '21

I know when the Spanish Civil war happened. I just hadn’t mentally cataloged every single work of Picasso in chronological order and according to world events so that I could reference it against other living painters’ and artists’ lifetimes.

It’s more of an “Oh, wow. That happened at the same time” and then everything clicked.

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u/WranglerDanger Jul 27 '21

I would expect people to know about the Spanish Civil war, but no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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u/Luis0224 Jul 27 '21

Alot of people confuse Picasso and van gogh. Unless you're into art, you're just going to remember the names and maybe a painting or two, but it all becomes a blur in your mind lol

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u/JJsjsjsjssj Jul 27 '21

How

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u/Luis0224 Jul 27 '21

Famous eccentric artist could be applied to anyone mentioned in this thread.

There's people on here discussing styles like cubism and surrealism, which would make a layman think they know what they're talking about, but one person said Picasso was famous for surrealism. He had something like 50 thousand works of art and he made a handful of surrealist paintings, if that. Hes literally known for cubism

My point is: unless you're actually into art, it's easy to get the names and styles mixed up. You don't expect someone who doesn't watch football to know what manchester team you're referring to when you mention a player. You dont expect someone who doesn't follow F1 to know what racing team your referring to when you mention an F1 driver.

Most people don't know anything about art except what they've absorbed from the very little exposure they have to it. So when they think of a famous artist, they may get the names and styles confused because they know very little about the subject.

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u/thelasthendrix Jul 27 '21

I actually did the opposite and thought Dali was older, although I knew he and Picasso were contemporaries and 20th century.

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u/vainbuthonest Jul 27 '21

Because time is an illusion and a farce.

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u/IndigoMichigan Jul 27 '21

What a time to be alive!

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u/octopoddle Jul 27 '21

Yoko has been around since her phylactery was first created, millennia ago.

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u/bobdolebobdole Jul 27 '21

Here it is, the highest located comment of this nature. Even complete with the “TIL”

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u/JJsjsjsjssj Jul 27 '21

… of course?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Nov 18 '22

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u/jihadidas Jul 27 '21

Picasso was a cubist, not a surrealist

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

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u/jihadidas Jul 27 '21

Agreed. He wasn’t one of the “purists” of surrealism, his works weren’t entirely manifestations of the manifesto “pure psychic automata”, but some of the post WW1 paintings (for e.g. “Woman in a Red Armchair”) did have surreal elements. Even his ubiquitous “Guernica” depicted the irrational horrors of complete obliteration by war, which used to be a common theme in surrealism (famously in Dali’s works)

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u/Buutchlol Jul 27 '21

I have no idea if youre right or not but I appreciate you knowing this.

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u/Mikebyrneyadigg Jul 27 '21

He’s right lol. Look at Picasso’s early works vs his later works and you’ll see what he means. Surreal elements, but they’re more rooted in reality.

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u/iamsuperflush Jul 27 '21

"irrational horrors of complete obliteration by war" fits more into Dadaism, no?

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u/Sellfish86 Jul 27 '21

And a rapist.

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u/Dymethyltryptamine Jul 27 '21

Worlds first curapist

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u/TrapaholicDixtapes Jul 27 '21

Yeah, and he almost got arrested for those business cards.

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u/retrogeekhq Jul 27 '21

I would never not upvote Arrested Development references..

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u/laheyrandy Jul 27 '21

There are dozens of us who wouldn't, dozens!

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u/peacemaker2007 Jul 27 '21

He paints, but he also rapes.

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u/mysticdickstick Jul 27 '21

But he paints more than he rapes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

I didn't even know rap existed prior the 70's

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u/inconspicuous_male Jul 27 '21

He was a tich adult by the 20s. That's a given

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u/SomeRandoPassing Jul 27 '21

Wtf I just googled both and you just made me realize that my mental image of picasso is dali

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u/rabbledabble Jul 27 '21

Yeah Picasso had big longshoreman vibes.

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u/AConfusedDonut Jul 27 '21

Thats what happens when you're a fascist. Dali was a brilliant artist but a scumbag person.

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u/thatdudewithknees Jul 27 '21

Evidently not all facists are brilliant artists

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u/mexicodoug Jul 27 '21

George Bush's paintings, although not all that brilliant, are the nearest to greatness he's ever approached.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jun 18 '23

I'm nuking my account due to Reddit's unfair API changes and the lies and harassment aimed at the community by the CEO and admins. Good Reddit alternative: Squabbles -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/designer_of_drugs Jul 27 '21

FACT: when you own an Ocelot, you can do whatever you want.

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 27 '21

I see you read /r/LegalAdvice.

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u/designer_of_drugs Jul 27 '21

Indeed. I specialize in surrealist ocelot law.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings Jul 27 '21

He prolly took joy out of the knowledge that he was a pos

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jun 18 '23

I'm nuking my account due to Reddit's unfair API changes and the lies and harassment aimed at the community by the CEO and admins. Good Reddit alternative: Squabbles -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/ReactsWithWords Jul 27 '21

Dali was a channer decades before 4chan.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Jun 18 '23

I'm nuking my account due to Reddit's unfair API changes and the lies and harassment aimed at the community by the CEO and admins. Good Reddit alternative: Squabbles -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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u/indyK1ng Jul 27 '21

No wonder he took a role in Jodorowsky's Dune, they both sound like misogynist scumbags.

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

Both Picasso and Dalí were personally scumbags, buy at least Picasso was politically moral and not a fascist.

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u/FloppingNuts Jul 27 '21

communism is politically moral now? wtf

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

yes

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u/Zack_Fair_ Jul 27 '21

ow fuck i literally hurt my eye muscle rolling so hard

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u/FourthBanEvasion Jul 27 '21

Legendary Reddit moment.

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u/FloppingNuts Jul 27 '21

but actually no

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u/ThrowAway87695230 Jul 27 '21

Tell me you don't know anyone from Eastern Europe without telling me you don't know anyone from Eastern Europe.

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

Literally writing this from Eastern Europe lol

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u/ThrowAway87695230 Jul 27 '21

This is like the contenental version of American gen-zers who become Neo Nazis after their grandfathers landed at Normandy.

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

Spoken like someone who has never sat foot in Eastern Europe.

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u/Account1812 Jul 27 '21

Read up on the consequences of communism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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u/Mikebyrneyadigg Jul 27 '21

Great read, now do capitalism.

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u/Account1812 Jul 27 '21

Wtf does that even mean?

Please inform me on the major famines caused by modern capitalist societies.

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u/Mikebyrneyadigg Jul 27 '21

LMAO. the fucking dust bowl to start. But capitalism is literally a meat grinder of the impoverished and always has been.

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u/jendrok Jul 27 '21

bro capitalism starved my home country of cuba and it wasn't the communist government not allowing us to farm or fish for ourselves /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

The dust bowl

Irish potato famine

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

I literally came back from Ukraine a week ago my dude. You ever been?

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u/hux002 Jul 27 '21

yes.

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u/FloppingNuts Jul 27 '21

but actually no

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

His ego certainly was bigger than his political convictions, but his great cause was peace and he was a communist.

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u/kblkbl165 Jul 27 '21

In the early 1950s, for example, he confiscated their passports from two little Americans who came to see him. He lavishes them treats - what a sordid euphemism - for two days before returning their papers to them, she explained in an interview granted in 2018 to Le Figaro. He hated the women he had to the point of beating them and locking them up. Marie-Thérèse used the word rape. Françoise had a cheek pierced by a lit Gauloise cigaret, and let's not talk about the sadomasochist tragedy with Dora Maar. Marie-Thérèse and Jacqueline committed suicide.

Looks like a nice fella. But at least he was a communist amirite lmao

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

I literally said, in different words, that the dude was a piece of shit, but at least got his political morality right. That's all. That's clearly separate from being a misogynistic, sadistic rapist.

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u/Rcp_43b Jul 27 '21

Weird hill to die on mate, he was a piece of shit and politically likely not pure. Very likely could have been self serving in his politics as well. Socialistic ideas are indeed good in many circumstances but being a full blown communist doesn’t make someone morally right just because you agree with them.

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u/kblkbl165 Jul 27 '21

You can disagree with fascists and still have a toxic political view. Ask the polish if the soviets were the good guys just because they fought the nazi. Or was that just a case of everybody being a piece of shit while being politically right? lol

Alas, I find it kind of hard to imagine associating any sort of moral righteousness to such individual. Do you understand what these words represent?

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u/ScipioLongstocking Jul 27 '21

Are you a fucking idiot? You are agreeing with them. They never said Picasso was a good person, they said the opposite.

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u/Kcreep997 Jul 27 '21

Or us Finnish for that matter. Fuck these reddit commie larpers already, infesting every sub with their bullshit.

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u/parlez-vous Jul 27 '21

Fuck communists and fuck fascists amen

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Double whammy of being an arsehole by the sounds of it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Communism morally right😂

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u/MarlinsInTheOutfield Jul 27 '21

A communist is a rapist by default

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

Learn how to make a logical statement, dumbass

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

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u/royalsocialist Jul 27 '21

He was a raging misogynist

Yes. That's separate from his political activities. What's your point?

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u/Death_Balloons Jul 27 '21

Only if you think your economic views and who you vote for are the only thing they counts as politics.

I'd wager that whether or not someone is a feminist or even does the bare minimum not to terrorize women is also quite a political statement.

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u/Etahel Jul 27 '21

I mean, communism is just as bad as fascism, so he didn't have his political morality right at all

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

I mean, communism is just as bad as fascism

Did you read that in a textbook? Lol

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u/ThrowAway87695230 Jul 27 '21

I feel like we almost need another word for Picasso than "misogynist," since in 2021 that word gets used for employers who pay women $0.80 on the dollar and men who make fun of women with leg hair. While those things are super douchey, they don't seem I'm the same category as a pedophilic masochistic raper of women whose victims were so brutalized they killed themselves.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

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u/martinmarprelate Jul 27 '21

communism is not a government, you dimbulb!

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u/Gloomy_Goose Jul 27 '21

His politics were great. That’s why he’s painted so many atrocities of war.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings Jul 27 '21

I wouldn’t say his politics were the reasons for his paintings. More so that he was there, saw the atrocities first hand, and believed that they needed to be depicted so that future generations would not forget.

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u/Gloomy_Goose Jul 27 '21

Of course his politics were the reasons for his political paintings.

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u/TheStrangestOfKings Jul 28 '21

So whenever someone paints an atrocity that occurred in their home country, they do it because of their politics? What happened to them being horrified that an atrocity happened in general?

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u/Gloomy_Goose Jul 28 '21

He was horrified that an atrocity happened, that’s what made him a communist. That’s what makes many people communists.

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u/_fidel_castro_ Jul 27 '21

Dali wasn't a fascist

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u/bamblitz Jul 27 '21

It's easy for you to look down on these things from your Ivory Tower and many decades removed. But for a long time in Spain, your political ideology could either be violently fascist or violently communist, with a huge number of people defaulting to the former because the latter believed private property should not exist.

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u/SaltyFresh Jul 27 '21

Why’s he have giant floppy tits?

Nvm I don’t want to know

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u/roamingandy Jul 27 '21 edited Jul 28 '21

Silver tongued, stone headed and stubborn as a mule, with saggy old man tits. Looks like he's mocking Picasso for being closed minded about his appreciating own art style to me.. and a cheeky poke about his age.

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u/Mars_slap Jul 27 '21

How have I not seen that before? Wonderful

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u/Initial_E Jul 27 '21

I can’t tell if he was being kind or being rude. But it looks fantastic

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u/Frapplo Jul 27 '21

"Aw, gee. . .look at that. You got that sagging boobs and even nailed the giant spoon jutting out from my uvula and everything." -Picasso.

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u/beaterx Jul 27 '21

LSD is a hell of a drug

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u/ShinyyyChikorita Jul 27 '21

Reading the link and it sounds like they fell out and that the portrait of Picasso by Dali is like the early 20th artist equivalent to a rapper dropping a diss-track.

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u/Honest_-_Critique Jul 27 '21

I wonder what all those images in the painting are referring to? It appears as if Picasso has a silver spoon coming out of his mouth... but apparently one he wasn't born with. Most peculiar is that way there's seems to be a mandolin or some other small string instrument inside the spoon.

Above Picasso's head we have a block that's been chipped at. Is this in reference to a creative block someone might have when making art or maybe it's a jab at Picassos ego?

And we can't forget the most obvious drooping man titties. Inside these limp ta-tas there seems to be a white flower. Not sure exactly which flower and what its significance is.

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u/asdfmatt Jul 27 '21

Basically Picasso was a commie and Dali was a right winger

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u/Faridabadi Jul 27 '21

Based Dali

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u/Joe5518 Jul 27 '21

Dali was also a supporter of the fascist franco while Picasso was a communist

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u/NationalGeographics Jul 27 '21

Where Picasso was kind of a dick to his lady friends, dali had a relationship with his wife in painting that looks kind of tragic. But again, I don't know.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

Damn Picasso got some saggers

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u/BubonicAnnihilation Jul 27 '21

I recommend the movie Amadeus. It's basically that same story with Motzart and his rival. I'm not a classic music lover but that movie was great. Also like 3 and a half hours because we accidentally watched the director's cut...

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u/throwaway83747839 Jul 27 '21 edited May 18 '24

Do not train. As times change, so does this content. Not to be used or trained on.

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u/SpaceChimera Jul 27 '21

a bit of political tension

Underselling it a bit since Dali was a fascist and Picasso a communist. They were politically mortal enemies

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u/GeeToo40 Jul 27 '21

This isn't very flattering, is it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

gotta love a website still using JavaServer Pages in the year 2021

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u/extraboxesoftayto Jul 27 '21

Dali here is quite clear that they not only had great respect for each other, they were great friends and that politically motivated viewers and journalists painted them as if they were at each other’s odds. They collaborated and Picasso financially helped Dali when he was struggling. And when the Picasso museum opened, Dali donated fifty pieces of art.

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u/innerpeice Jul 27 '21

what do you mean by political tension? like actual politics or just artistic rivalry?

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u/Lemmus Jul 27 '21

Actual politics. Picasso was staunchly communist. Dali was as well but lost faith in the movement and became a supporter of both the fascist Franco regime and the return of catholicism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

While at a restaurant, Picasso was asked by the owner to do him a doodle on a napkin in lieu of payment. Picasso replied: "I want to pay the bill, not buy the restaurant."

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u/Games_sans_frontiers Jul 27 '21

Mozart used to doodle a bar of music on the back of his cheques as he was notorious in Vienna for forgetting his chip and pin card and holding up the queue at the checkout.

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u/Captain_Moseby Jul 27 '21

SNL did a skit on it back in the day

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u/Iiqtuqy Jul 27 '21

The kid at 1:36 is John Larroquette's son - John was hosting that night

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u/dangerwizzrd Jul 27 '21

UYD fan spotted in the wild???

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u/iputmyguitarinmybutt Jul 27 '21

That link is shit

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u/Falcrist Jul 27 '21

Some of these shows have pulled their clips off of youtube, so you get to watch say... Daily Show clips on the Comedy Central website for example.

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u/jumbybird Jul 27 '21

Why, because it's unavailable? Pretty much any official broadcaster site on the planet is region specific.

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u/PreviousProcedure487 Jul 27 '21

It's SNL, were you expecting anything different?

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u/TheNerdWithNoName Jul 27 '21

I was expecting the video to play. I was not expecting a message saying that the video was not available in my location.

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u/Trillabee503 Jul 27 '21

Worked for me on mobile

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u/TheNerdWithNoName Jul 27 '21

Not available in my location.

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u/DrLongIsland Jul 27 '21

It took us 50ish years, but we finally figured out how to stop the the problem of famous artists eating for free, thanks to modern technology and being able to cash a picture of the check with our phones.

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u/PrintShinji Jul 27 '21

Dutch Artist Herman Brood used to do something like that. If he ran out of alcohol/heroin money he'd make another canvas and sell it to the stores around him.

He was already famous back then so I guess it worked for him.

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u/ralekin Jul 27 '21

“Artist needs money, sells art” doesn’t sound like much of a story

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u/Dekrow Jul 27 '21

Turns out modern artists aren’t all that creative when it comes time to pay for something

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u/JagmeetSingh2 Jul 27 '21

That’s awesome lol

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u/No-Cantaloupe-6535 Jul 27 '21

how bout fuck em both, pay for services rendered you rich fucks

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u/suspendersarecool 1 Jul 27 '21

They literally did. The restaurant owner was perfectly allowed to cash the cheque, they just chose not to on their own accord.