Salvador Dali confirmed /ourguy/
217 2019-03-10 by Van-Diemen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dalí
In his youth, he embraced both anarchism and communism, though his writings tell anecdotes of making radical political statements more to shock listeners than from any deep conviction.
He did it for the lulz.
In his 1970 book Dalí by Dalí, Dalí declared himself to be both an anarchist and monarchist.
Confirmed radical centrist.
Dalí, a colorful and imposing presence with his ever–present long cape, walking stick, haughty expression, and upturned waxed moustache, was famous for having said that "every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí"
How can one man be so based?
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), Dalí fled from the fighting and refused to align himself with any group.
More centrism.
He was also known to avoid paying tabs at restaurants by drawing on the checks he wrote. His theory was the restaurant would never want to cash such a valuable piece of art, and he was usually correct.
More antics.
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1 xlhat 2019-03-10
CMV Dali > Picassochu.
1 Tzar-Romulus 2019-03-10
No need to change your view you're right.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
When I'm right, I'm right 😎.
1 VapeOnYourNape 2019-03-10
Picasso was a horny manlet who (for the most part) also refused to get involved with politics.
But mostly his paintings are way less retarded.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
So he IS r/drama's patron saint.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
Picasso was a Red. That's it. His randiness and manletness can't mitigate that.
Dali is still numero Uno.
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
Srs post? Dalí had just the one style. Picasso invented multiple artistic movements.
Dalí's weird juxtapositions are untoppable if you're the penguin of d00m crowd, but he's less interesting as a painter qua painting.
Still v fond of Dalí.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
I just find Dali more interesting to look at. Maybe that's why I like those landscapes by Gainsborough and symbolic portraits and scenes.
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
A fan of Breugel as well I imagine? I get it, and I think Picasso's genius can be pretty astringent, especially in his analytical cubist phase. But he career is just deeper than Dalí's marriage of Bosch and Freud and Spanish Catholicism.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
Yep.
I agree. Picasso was just more innovative I guess ?
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
Yeah like Joyce in literature: both were unrivalled masters of form.
I prefer other artists and writers more, but their virtuousity is pretty unchallengeable.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
Agreed. Joyce is Ulysses's from the little I've read, is a good read.
Now that other one, fuck that.
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
I got five pages in, or back, once.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
I was pretty sure he just trolled us by writing that.
After reading the vulgar letters he wrote to his wife, I'm certain.
1 Carl_Schmitt 2019-03-10
Dali pandered more to plebs, while Picasso went for the insecure but moneyed aspirationals. Both master hucksters, but very different markets.
Dali's real genius comes through in his writing, the guy was hilarious.
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
I rather be a pleb than an uppity middling fag.
Agree.
1 Wordshark 2019-03-10
I prefer better art 🧐
1 ardasyenden 2019-03-10
One problem: Picasso didn’t have the supreme pleasure of waking up as Salvadore Dali every morning
1 sadderreborn 2019-03-10
Implying anything of "modernist" art post Kalinksy is any good.
Fuck you u cringe art history cel. Im so mad rn.
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
Steakhouse art
1 sadderreborn 2019-03-10
So beautiful a child can do it!
1 Diddu_Sumfin 2019-03-10
I once made "The Virgin Picasso vs. The Chad Dali"
1 xlhat 2019-03-10
My man 👌👍.
1 PostmodernHomosexual 2019-03-10
Sure but Dali was pro incels:
Quote from Entretiens avec Salvador Dali, Alain Bosquet, 1966; as cited in The shameful life of Salvador Dali, Ian Gibson, New York / London, Norton & Co, 1997
1 Diddu_Sumfin 2019-03-10
Yes, and is there anything more chad than standing up for incels while having a cool mustache?
1 Honk4Tits 2019-03-10
Ripping on incels while shit posting.
1 HodorTheDoorHolder_ 2019-03-10
Other than Guernica, Picasso’s paintings 🖼 were lame 😒. Salvador Dali’s paintings 🖼 has melting clocks 🕰. Melting clocks ⏰!!!
1 Gachi_Ricardo_Milos 2019-03-10
no youre thinking of H.P. "When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next designed; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger." Lovecraft
1 Tzar-Romulus 2019-03-10
Also he named his cat Nigger Man.
1 YEET_ON_THEM_LIBS 2019-03-10
He also looked like the elephant man's gay little brother.
1 RandolphCox 2019-03-10
art is retarded
1 preserved_fish 2019-03-10
for your ideas about art, I don't give a fart
1 Tytos_Lannister 2019-03-10
even artists i know agree that art is bullshit
the art is to sell that bullshit well
1 spergling_ 2019-03-10
isn't all things bullshit that sells well?
1 Tytos_Lannister 2019-03-10
yeah but arts people usually pretend that there is some deeper meaning in their paintings that you can only really understand if you are 'cultured' or if you went to the same college as they went to or if you read some 200 something page book about expressionism
so not only is it bullshit but it's pretentious bullshit
1 Caedendi 2019-03-10
This. Source: my best friend studies art
1 lol_te_gusto 2019-03-10
Everything is devoid of meaning. Our planet's system is so far away from anything else that I'm almost certain that humanity will die on earth. Not just physically, but all things human, all our books, all our computers will never be seen by other sentient beings.
1 Tytos_Lannister 2019-03-10
/r/im14andthisisdeep/
1 spergling_ 2019-03-10
Nah
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2019-03-10
Based Pastor Randy!
1 wumbo17412 2019-03-10
based and Hans Hermann-Hoppe-pilled
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-03-10
Definitely /r/drama material
1 PostmodernHomosexual 2019-03-10
He even defended the indefensible (incels):
Quote from Entretiens avec Salvador Dali, Alain Bosquet, 1966; as cited in The shameful life of Salvador Dali, Ian Gibson, New York / London, Norton & Co, 1997
1 jaredschaffer27 2019-03-10
Basado y rojo-pildorado.
1 hyperchimpchallenger 2019-03-10
Getting this tatted
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-03-10
George Orwell got fucking MAD at the fact Dali didn't fight in the civil war, basically calling him an enabler of fascism.
1 Tzar-Romulus 2019-03-10
Didn't Orwell regret fighting in the war?
1 le_epic_xd 2019-03-10
Well, he got shot in the face
1 Psyman2 2019-03-10
Only a little. He got better.
1 Tzar-Romulus 2019-03-10
This but actually.
1 llapingachos 2019-03-10
He regretted allying with stalinists
1 Tytos_Lannister 2019-03-10
so Orwell was the one who originated "all centrists are fascists" tankie meme
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-03-10
Well no, there's not really any 'originator' because its pretty well a core tenant of the ideology. I guess you could say he's one of the first ones to use it in the popular conscious, though.
1 llapingachos 2019-03-10
its not a tankie meme, fascists call themselves third positionists for a reason
1 CirqueDuFuder 2019-03-10
What fascists referred to themselves as third positionist?
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-03-10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position
Pretty well all the big parties, but especially those that came in the decades immediately after ww2
1 CirqueDuFuder 2019-03-10
What about the big ones like Italy and Germany? I have never heard this before.
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-03-10
From what I can tell, they did not call themselves as so, but there was some prescient for people to refer to them as so, at least partially.
For example, Italian Fascism, at least on paper, argued against both the prospect of liberal democratic capitalism as well as dictatorship-of-the-proletariat workers council socialism. Instead, it argued for the idea of corporatism, an ideology which was based on Georges Sorel's ideology of National Syndicalism. Its a difficult explanation of what it is, but essentially Sorel's argument was that the class struggle posited by Marx could only be achieved through the use of National Myth. Essentially, he argued that the working class should be invigorated with the ideas of powerful Jingoistic sentiment, which would allow them to come together against the Bourgeois class and overthrow it, creating a truly united nation that was free of class strife. On the economic side, Syndicalism argued in favor of the national regulation of Trade Unions (and Mussolini would later argue in favor of incorporating private sectors to this, too). People would be organized by whatever trade it was they work in, and their needs, desires, and interests would be addressed by the agreement of their sector. As the wiki says, "Each trade union or employer corporation would theoretically represent its professional concerns, especially by negotiation of labour contracts and the like."
A lot of explanation, but essentially Corporatism and Fascism as a whole was an ideology that was both alike and unlike the other two ideologies of capitalism and communism, so marketed itself as an alternative to the two. If you want sort of a full encompassing of how Mussolini formed his ideology, his influences and how they changed over the years, Historian Indy Neidall does a great (if long) overview of it in this video here.
Arguably as well Strasserism within the Nazi Party was a sort of precursor to modern Third Positionism. I'm just going to take the exert from Rationalewiki on this (which yeah I know but bear with me on this because they did get this part pretty well right):
Notice the opposition to the Bourgeois classes while arguing in favor of extreme Nationalist spirit to remove and then replace that class struggle. Quite similar to Sorelianism.
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1 CirqueDuFuder 2019-03-10
Thanks that was actually informative.
1 llapingachos 2019-03-10
Wow, thanks, ily
1 Sarge_Ward 2019-03-10
😍
1 ArtisanalCollabo 2019-03-10
He was a drug addict sex pervert who kept the company of hippies
1 llapingachos 2019-03-10
Hippies and fascists
1 le_epic_xd 2019-03-10
Dalì was the best gimmickposter of the 20th century
1 missingno42128 2019-03-10
r/darkenlightenment is cumming in their Chinese made jeans right now