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Salvador Dali Still Has Mustache Despite Dying 28 Years Ago
CBS Chicago ^ | July 21, 2017

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; dali; dna; genetics; lawsuit; paternity
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To: aquila48

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 ...


21 posted on 07/22/2017 5:25:43 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: aquila48

“Rhinoceros!”

I really enjoyed that movie!


22 posted on 07/22/2017 5:47:44 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Beer! Because you can't drink bacon!)
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To: aquila48

Let this be a lesson. You can not rest in peace from paternity tests even 25 years after you die..


23 posted on 07/22/2017 5:53:21 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: aquila48

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.”


24 posted on 07/22/2017 6:19:31 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: aquila48

Destino animation by Walt Disney and Salvador Dali (started 1945, finished 2003).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDujHWkQDDo


25 posted on 07/22/2017 6:21:55 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (HitlerÂ’s Mein Kampf, translated into Arabic, is "My Jihad")
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

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.


26 posted on 07/22/2017 7:17:46 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: ifinnegan
Dali could actually paint.


27 posted on 07/22/2017 8:17:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: bert

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.


28 posted on 07/22/2017 8:29:27 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: NautiNurse

That’s comforting to know that they’re “forgeries” considering what my friend told me.


29 posted on 07/22/2017 12:45:02 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: aquila48
Salvador Dali Still Has Mustache Despite Dying 28 Years Ago

They were expecting him to shave it off?

30 posted on 07/22/2017 10:08:10 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Winter is coming)
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To: aquila48
My favorite Dali quote:

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I, Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

31 posted on 07/22/2017 10:14:18 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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