Posted on 07/21/2017 10:47:35 PM PDT by aquila48
Salvador Dali’s body was exhumed for a paternity test and the legendary artist’s famous mustache is still intact 28 years after his death.
A woman is claiming that her mother had an affair with Dali and requested a paternity test. If she’s Dali’s daughter, she’ll have a right to the Dali estate. A judge sanctioned the exhumation.
Narcis Bardalet was in charge of embalming Dali’s body after the artist passed away in 1989.
“When I took off the silk handkerchief, I was very emotional,” Bardalet said, via BBC. “I was eager to see him and I was absolutely stunned. It was like a miracle… his moustache appeared at 10 past 10 exactly and his hair was intact.”
After a four hour operation DNA samples were extracted from Dali’s teeth, bones and nails. The results of the paternity test likely won’t be known for a few weeks.
Ian Gibson, a biographer of Dali, says it’s “absolutely impossible” for Dali to be the father.
“Dalí always boasted: ‘I’m impotent, you’ve got to be impotent to be a great painter,'” said Gibson.
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Of course his moustache and hair were still intact. They were dead before he was. They are long-string proteins and decompose very slowly, sometimes not at all.
You notice he doesn’t say anything about the state of the rest of the corpse ...
“Rhinoceros!”
I really enjoyed that movie!
Let this be a lesson. You can not rest in peace from paternity tests even 25 years after you die..
Dali was leaving New York en route to Cannes, carrying a 5-foot-tall, purple Bugs Bunny doll that had been given to him as a bon voyage gift. “This is the most ugly and frightening animal in the world,” he said. “I will paint it with mayonnaise and make it an object of art.”
Destino animation by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali (started 1945, finished 2003).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDujHWkQDDo
There are stories that as Dali’s mental status declined in later years, he would sign blank canvases and hand them out to visitors. As a result, more recent Dali specimens are highly suspected to be forgeries.
Part of being an modern artist is having the chutzpah to create something and stand behind it with a straight face.
What I find marvelous about modern art from the likes of Dali and Magritte and Picasso was their ability to create imaginative works long decades before Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator put that sort of power to create in the hands of people.
Yes, people could try to imitate what they did with their own brushes and canvas in those days, but few came close when anyone bothered to try. (Studios like Disney and Warner Brothers and the occasional technically brilliant photographer.) Now, you see this sort of stuff in movies and commercials and movies routinely.
That’s comforting to know that they’re “forgeries” considering what my friend told me.
They were expecting him to shave it off?
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I, Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
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