He passed away before Viagra, so hopefully the embalmer did not find anything TOO shocking...
Dali’s renderings were remarkable for their vibrancy and credibility. His compositions were usually quite dynamic in positioning and lighting, almost on the order of Caravaggio.
Just as Mozart, another artistic genius contradicted his beautiful music with his private fascination (bordering on fetish) for passing gas (Yes, it’s true!), Salvador Dali had an inner belief that sex and decay were forever fused.
The mustache was probably glued in place and position for the funeral by the mortuary.
Remember when the old wives tale about hair and nails kept growing after we die?
Crazy! It takes live cells to make both. Once the body dies all cells die within hours so it would be physically impossible but there are people who still believe it because those who do believe it; say it with such conviction and no one has ever challenged them on it.
I was talking with a guy one time who said he helped exhume a body once and the nails were “like 3 inches long”. When I explained how he must have been buried that way due to reasons mentioned above; he asked me how many bodies I exhumed like that changes the laws of science somehow. Hey, I gave him an out, I did say he must have been buried that way. People don’t like to be caught in lies. Sometimes they even get violent.
Hello, Dali!
Oh, now I get what she meant by that: The two ends of his moustache were like the hands of a clock.
Regards,
The persistence of facial hair.
The one time I went to the big Dali museum in St. Petersburg, I was a bit rushed. I need to get back when I have more time, it was quite nice. Worthwhile.
The Dali Museum celebrates the life and work of Salvador Dali (1904-1989) and features works from the artist’s entire career. The collection includes over 2,100 works from every moment and in every medium of his artistic activity, including oil paintings, many original drawings, book illustrations, artists’ books, prints, sculpture, photos, manuscripts and an extensive archive of documents. Founded with the works collected by Reynolds and Eleanor Morse, the Museum has made significant additions to its collection over the years.
In 1942, the Morses visited a traveling Dali retrospective at the Cleveland Museum of Art organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and became fascinated with the artist’s work. On March 21, 1943, the Morses bought their first Dali painting, Daddy Longlegs of the Evening, Hope! (1940). This was the first of many acquisitions, which would culminate 40 years later in the preeminent collection of Dali’s work in America. On April 13, 1943, the Morses met Salvador Dali and his wife Gala in New York initiating a long, rich friendship.
The Morses first displayed their Dali paintings in their home, and by the mid-1970s decided to donate their entire collection. A Wall Street Journal article titled, “U.S. Art World Dillydallies Over Dali,” caught the attention of the St. Petersburg, FL community, who rallied to bring the collection to the area. The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL opened in 1982. The distinguished new building, which opened on January 11, 2011, enables the Museum to better protect and display the collection, to welcome the public, and to educate and promote enjoyment. In a larger sense it is a place of beauty dedicated, as is Dali’s art, to understanding and transformation.
I watched a video about the Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) who was exhumed in 2007 in order to be moved over to a new plot where he and his then recently deceased widow (and now son) were to be interred. Apparently, even after about fifty years (the famous plane crash along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens), he was one of the best cases of preservation that the local coroner had ever seen (even the trademark flattop haircut was apparently much the same after all of that time).
They were even able to do a minor autopsy on the spot and officially reassert that Richardson (and all of the others) very likely died instantly from their injuries suffered in the crash, disproving some silly myth that guns were allegedly fired in the plane.
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
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.